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  • Lifting irrigation cropping profitability and WUE

    02.06.2008

    ICF, with the support of GRDC, has prepared 14 case studies of irrigators in the southern Murray-Darling Basin.

    In spite of change and in spite of uncertainty, these irrigation businesses continue to invest in and develop production and management systems that can be viable at much lower water allocations than have historically been available. In doing so, these irrigators can achieve their financial and personal goals, ensure they are part of a vibrant community, and ensure their land is part of a sustainable irrigated agricultural landscape.

    The document can be found at http://www.icf.org.au/pubs_f/licp1.html

  • Plant Breeder's Rights

    29.03.2008

    As part of the National EPR Framework, members of the breeding community including breeding organisations, the GRDC and the seed industry have developed with industry a standardised agreement to licence new varieties to growers. The aim of standardising this agreement is to avoid confusion and reduce the number of different contracts currently being used to licence proprietary varieties to growers. The standardised agreements will increasingly be used by breeding organisations and their commercial agents to licence new varieties in the future. Replicate copies of the standardised agreement are on this web site and information about the Industry Standard PBR Licence Agreement can be found in the PBR Fact Sheet.

  • Managing Sorghum for High Yields

    17.03.2008

    A blueprint for doubling sorghum production

  • Succession Planning Guide

    21.01.2008

    A new guide is providing an important resource for farming families planning the future of their business. A Guide to Succession: Sustaining families and farms is a factual booklet that includes practical examples and case studies, checklists and decision making tools. The guide reinforces the need to plan, the need to seek professional assistance, and the importance of keeping the family and business intact. Funded by the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC), the guide is in strong demand from state rural counselling and rural health services as well as farmers. 

    GRDC Code: RSS00002

  • TOPCROP

    07.01.2008

    TOPCROP Australia provides the means for the transfer of new technology and innovation amongst grain grower groups. Opportunities available to growers include the following;

    - Skills development in crop monitoring and benchmarking crop performance

    - Local group training through "in the paddock" single issue workshops that focus on specific production and management based issues

    - On-farm testing through resources such as the "Test as You Grow" kit

    Informal grower led activities, be it demonstrations, examining new technologies, comparing different farming systems
    TOPCROP Australia strongly supports the development of training and information packages and crop monitoring systems, in addition to supporting the development of group networks themselves. The net outcome of these efforts is to increase the sustainable and profitable production of high quality grain - through self-directed groups.

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  • Future Crop

    06.08.2007

    This booklet, FutureCrop, has been produced to explain recent advances in the science and to illustrate that both GM and non-GM pathways have important roles to play in ensuring our grains industries and their communities remain commercially and environmentally healthy.

  • Improving water quality in grains farming catchments

    01.06.2006

        GRDC Code     DNR00002     Researchers     D.J.Rattray, D.M.Freebairn, N.C.Gurner     Project completed     June 2006

  • Indicators for Triple Bottom Line Benchmarking of GRDC Farming Systems Projects

    01.01.2005

  • 2004 GroundCover Survey - Uptake of precision agriculture by the Australian grains industry

    02.11.2004

  • Functions of soil organic matter and the effect on soil properties

    01.10.2004

    This literature review aims to provide a comprehensive assessment of the current state of knowledge of the functions of SOC and its effect on the physical, chemical and biological properties of soil.