Some interesting updates from the world of gene technology from the Agricultural Biotechnology Council of Australia: 🌱 New Zealand approves field trials of genetically modified wheat and barley varieties 🇨🇦 Canadian study finds GM crops improve grower efficiency ☘️ Trials of a genetically modified clover are underway in Victoria 🫘 US company gets approval for its pork protein-enriched soybeans. Read more https://bit.ly/3zLw59q
Grains Research and Development Corporation
Research
Barton, ACT 20,539 followers
Invest in research, development and extension to create enduring profitability for Australian grain growers.
About us
The Grains Research & Development Corporation is one of the world's leading grains research organisations. Our purpose is to invest in research, development and extension to create enduring profitability for Australian grain growers.
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http://www.grdc.com.au/
External link for Grains Research and Development Corporation
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- Research
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Barton, ACT
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- Government Agency
- Founded
- 1990
- Specialties
- Grains Research
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Barton, ACT 2600, AU
Employees at Grains Research and Development Corporation
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Shaun Coffey FTSE CRSNZ FAIA FAICD
Scientist, Company Director and CEO | Governance & Strategy Leader: Innovation and Impact in Research & Development. He Takahoa a Te Apārangi
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Craig Hole
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Kellie Benda FAICD
Chair I Non-Executive Director I ASX I Govt I Chair Audit & Risk I Chair People & REM
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Guillermo Tempo
Proven inspirational leader and Portfolio Program Project Management (P3M) specialist who focuses on delivery of business benefits and value with…
Updates
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⚠️14 – 20 July is National Farm Safety Week, and this year's theme is 'In Safe Hands'. Although there was a significant decrease in on-farm fatalities in 2023 (44%), the first six months of 2024 have been tragic, with 30 farmers already losing their lives. Visit farmsafe.org.au for the latest farm safety resources, or check out these GRDC resources: 🚜 Paddock Practices: Everything you wish you know about farm safety in WA https://bit.ly/41HxAys 🚜 Podcast: On farm chemical safety legislation and compliance https://bit.ly/3Wn6dtk 🚜 Podcast: On farm chemical safety – a grower’s management approach https://bit.ly/4cGShQI 🚜 Farm Business Update webinar: Managing WHS to protect you and your employees https://bit.ly/46a5u23 #FarmSafety #NationalFarmSafetyWeek #WHS #InSafeHands
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🎙️ NEW PODCAST New research insights suggest that deep sown long coleoptile wheat (LCW) varieties are an effective way to avoid rhizoctonia infection. It’s one of the many added benefits of LCW emerging as part of a $12.7 million GRDC investment to provide growers with the knowledge and tools to integrate LCW into their farming systems, once the genetics become commercially available. In this podcast we hear all about the rhizoctonia research from 2 project participants, Dr Jonathan Anderson and Michael Lamond. This 4-year long coleoptile wheat project is being led by CSIRO along with research partners including the University of Melbourne, NSW Department of Primary Industries, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (Queensland), SLR Agriculture, Department of Primary Industries & Regional Development, University of South Australia and EPAG Research. Listen now 🎧 https://bit.ly/4652UKx #GRDCPodcast #LongColeoptileWheat #CropGenetics #DeepSowing
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Aussie growers could unlock tools to improve nitrogen use efficiency and reduce on-farm greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through a national research project examining enhanced efficiency fertilisers (EEFs). EEFs use chemical or physical approaches to regulate the release of nitrogen and its availability to plants. They aim to reduce the risk of nitrogen loss by better synchronising the supply of fertiliser to the demands of the crop. The 4-year, $17.33M project is a co-investment of GRDC and will be led by the University of Melbourne alongside several research organisations and industry partners. Read more ▶️ https://bit.ly/4f4WOhm Department of Primary Industries & Regional Development The University of Queensland NSW Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development CSIRO Department of Environment, Science and Innovation Queensland University of Technology La Trobe University Birchip Cropping Group (BCG) Hart Field-Site Group Inc CSBP Fertilisers Incitec Pivot Fertilisers Nutrien Ag Solutions - Australia N-Shield Technology Fertiliser Australia #GroundcoverOnline #Nitrogen #Fertiliser #Nutrition
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"We've been able to adopt more technology in each part of the farm". Boardman Agriculture is one Aussie grain growing business using electromagnetic mapping to increase their bottom line. Watch the video now ▶️ https://bit.ly/3xKky9N SPAA Society of Precision Agriculture Australia #GRDCVideo #PrecisionAg #AgTech #GrowerStory
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🎫 Have you got your tickets? The 11th annual WeedSmart Week is coming to Port Lincoln, SA on 29 and 30 July. WeedSmart Week brings together local and interstate growers, agronomists and industry experts to learn and discuss effective weed control strategies, technologies and herbicide resistance issues. Read more: https://bit.ly/464paEa WeedSmart #GroundCoverOnline #WeedSmartWeek
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Are faba beans being underestimated? Rising interest in the potential farming system benefits of faba beans saw 75 growers and agronomists attracted to a focus session at Ganmain in southern NSW in March. For the past 3 years, Brill Ag, with collaboration from Field Applied Research (FAR) Australia Ltd, Grain Orana Alliance, Ag Grow Agronomy and Research and Frontier Farming Systems – with GRDC investment – has shown the value of legumes in trials across southern and central NSW. The work is part of the GRDC Pulse Agronomy project, which runs across NSW, South Australia and Victoria. Brill Ag research agronomist Rohan Brill said faba beans scored highly when compared to other grain legumes. Read more: https://bit.ly/4cC30M4 📷 Nicole Baxter/GRDC #GroundCoverOnline #Legumes #FabaBeans
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AEGIC’s new eLearning training program is helping to foster closer connections with flour mills in Indonesia 🤝. Developed by Australian Export Grains Innovation Centre (AEGIC), in partnership with Grains Australia (a GRDC initiative) and IA-CEPA ECP Katalis, the online training is designed to upskill workers and improve efficiency in Indonesia’s rapidly growing flour milling industry. South-East Asia is one of Australia’s most important wheat markets, importing more than $6 billion worth of wheat in 2023 – 40% of the value of all Australian wheat exports. Indonesia is the largest market in South-East Asia. AEGIC general manager – research and technical services Dr Ken Quail says AEGIC’s eLearning platform will support the internal training offered by flour mills by providing employees with up-to-date technical knowledge. Read more: https://bit.ly/3W8md18 📷 AEGIC #GroundCoverOnline #Markets #FeedtheWorld
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🌾🌾 GROWER STORY Each year, GRDC's GroundCover follows a group of growers from across Australia as they manage the cropping season. Mitch Henderson with parents Craig and Pauline, brother Ben, cousin John and their families grow wheat, barley, lentils and oaten hay in Berriwillock, Wilkur and Brim in Victoria’s Mallee. They also rear poultry, using their wheat straw as bedding and then spreading it back onto paddocks as manure in a closed-loop system. Mitch says: "Dry conditions through May put us about two weeks behind our ideal sowing schedule but there’s not a lot wrong. We might see a yield penalty of 300 to 400k/ha on top-end yield, depending on the modelling you look at, but the year is young. We finished up dry-sowing on 24 May and two weeks later received seven to 10mm, which got most of the crop up. An isolated storm in early May dropped a patchy 40mm in a couple of paddocks, which gave us some early germination, putting about 20 per cent of our program about two weeks ahead of the rest. But this has worked to our advantage because we can stagger the spraying program with a bigger window to target inputs at the right time. So even though we didn’t get a typical break, I’m still pretty confident and there’s nothing to be too concerned about yet. Our parallelogram seeder set up with a (12mm) knife-point press-wheel system has provided more accurate seed placement and more uniform crop emergence with nothing planted too shallow or deep. As well, the knife-point press wheels create a furrow over the top of the seed, so we get a water harvesting effect that amplifies the impact of any rainfall. After 8.5mm of rain in May, I had a dig and it was wet down to 30mm. This year, nearly half our program (45 per cent) is hay and legumes (GIA Thunder and PBA Hallmark XT lentils). Cereals make up the rest with an even split between wheat (Scepter, Calibre and Tomahawk CL Plus) and barley (Maximus). Chicken manure was spread in a couple of paddocks near the sheds but generally the cereals have had 70kg/ha of (compound fertiliser) Granulock Z, and the lentils 50kg/ha. We top-dressed with about 150kg/ha of urea. Our spraying program has begun with a broadacre early weed knockdown and we’ve been rolling our lentil country, flattening the furrows along with any sticks and rocks to increase our harvestability." Hear more from our growers this year: https://bit.ly/3Le7Piv 📷 Brad Collis/GRDC #GroundCoverOnline #GRDC #GrowerStory #SeasonUpdate
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GROWER STORY 🌾🌾 Stephen Cooper and his family bought a half share in a deep tillage machine to drive lime into an acid subsurface soil layer and improve their faba bean production. Stephen – who farms with his father Trevor and partner Melanie – purchased the machine with a Temora family to ameliorate soils on his 4500-hectare farm near Caragabal, NSW. The move came after soil tests showed that three tonnes of lime per hectare, incorporated with a offset disc plough in 2023, had not fixed the acid subsurface layer in their red soil. “We have an acid throttle 150 to 250 millimetres below the surface where the pHCa was 4.0,” he says. “The surface has a pHCa of 5.7.” Stephen says crop production where 3t/ha of lime was applied was satisfactory on the hill, but the soil remained acidic in the valley. He plans to apply 2t/ha of lime in the valley after a canola crop is harvested and drive it into the subsurface with deep tillage. Read more: https://bit.ly/4cxlFsD 📷 Nicole Baxter/GRDC #GroundCoverOnline #GRDC #GrowerStory #SoilManagement
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