FutureCrop

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.

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Australia ranks among the top 10 wheat-producing countries in the world. This laudable position has been achieved despite the fact that Australian graingrowers continue to be challenged by a lack of rain, high-maintenance soils, spring frost, summer heat, pests and diseases and diminishing terms of trade.

That the grains industry continues to grow is an extraordinary testament to the resilience of its people and to the development and adoption of new technologies, innovative practices and new crops. This resilience has been built on one of agriculture’s most intensive R&D-driven transformations – a transformation that has seen a comparatively simple cropping industry evolve into a dynamic and diverse component of the agrifoods sector.
No one in the industry harbours any doubt about the central role played by science in this achievement. Grain is today one of the most technologically driven sectors in agriculture. Profit margins have only been maintained by a ceaseless campaign to reduce production costs.

The Grains Research and Development Corporation, with its research partners around the country, has focused particularly on two key areas: keeping more of a declining rainfall in the soil and developing crops that make better use of that moisture.

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