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The Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) is a statutory authority established to plan and invest in R&D for the Australian grains industry. Its primary objective is to support the effective competition by Australian grain growers in global grain markets, through enhanced profitability and sustainability.
Critical to this fundamental objective is the development of technologies that allow grain production to espouse and embody world best practice in environmental farming systems. The considerable changes already made to farming practices – already embedded in many modern cropping operations, but often not widely appreciated outside the industry – underpin the overall resilience the industry has shown during a succession of droughts.
The GRDC, in consultation with its industry partners, has developed a comprehensive Plan. This Plan will ensure that environmental issues will be prioritised when developing research policy that impacts on the grains industry. The implementation of the Plan will equip Australian grain growers with the knowledge needed to manage a broad range of environmental challenges – including climate change – while continuing to develop a profitable, progressive and
sustainable industry.
It is a Plan that will ensure the grains industry plays a leadership role in supporting regional economies, communities and their environments. The Plan draws on the GRDC’s 2007-12 Strategic Research and Development Plan, Prosperity
through Innovation, to enhance the management of the natural resource base within which the grains industry operates.
A responsible lead: an environmental plan for the Australian Grains Industry (4MB)
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Farming Practices Database
This project has four major objectives:
- To gather farming practices data from grain and mixed cropping farmers around Australia,
- To build relationships with natural resource management and catchment management organisations, researchers and other groups identified as relevant by the project partners.
- To develop the farming practices data collection process as a means of ‘real time’ measurement of industry sustainability and the uptake of relevant research outcomes.
- To build relationships that will ensure the farming practices data collection process remains as an on-going means of performance monitoring.
