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Ground Cover
- Issue Number
- 104
Over the past decade we have seen a fundamental shift in the organisational structures that underpin the research that keeps our crop varieties a step ahead of evolving biological and climatic challenges. Much of today’s plant breeding in the grains sector involves local companies with global partnerships and this has given Australian plant breeders direct access to advanced technologies, knowledge, skills and a much more expansive genetic resource. This investment by international interests in the future of the Australian grains industry also represents a critical injection of capital into the plant breeding on which our industry stands. Central to all of this change is ensuring that the delivery of new crop varieties, and allied research, directly benefits growers.
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Ground Cover
- Issue Number
- 103
If there is one thing our grains industry has in spades, it is momentum: a shared determination to keep pushing ahead. It is reflected in the grower case studies and research outcomes you read in Ground Cover, and in the dynamic extension activities of research organisations and grower groups around the country. It is also reflected in the underlying knowledge sharing that helps to accelerate the research needed to keep ahead of shifting production constraints – a major example being herbicide resistance.
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Ground Cover
- Issue Number
- 102
In this issue:
Precision Agriculture: Variable rate technology data put to work
Agronomy: New medics revive rotations
Capacity Building: Growers lift their marketing skills
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Ground Cover
- Issue Number
- 101
In this issue:
Pre-Breeding: Pressure on breeders to crack yields ceiling
Climate Research: Answers sought for increase in frost events
Machinery: Header fire prevention
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Ground Cover
- Issue Number
- 100
Ground Cover: 100 Issues Strong
In this issue:
Precision Agriculture: Variable rate technology plugs production holes
Pre-Breeding: Rats and rice offer new salinity hope
On-farm: Wide rows challenge plant breeders
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Ground Cover
- Issue Number
- 99
In this edition of Ground Cover the effectiveness of in-crop herbicide sequences to better control wild radish is examined, strategies for Root Lesion Nematode and the announcement of commercial progress of the Harrington Seed Destructor
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Ground Cover
- Issue Number
- 98
One of the GRDC's central responsibilities as the manager of national grains research in Australia is to effectively disseminate the outcomes of the research it finds on growers' behalf. To achieve this, we have extensive information resources tailored to the varying needs of our grower stakeholders.
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Ground Cover
- Issue Number
- 97
We are almost through our pre-winter crop GRDC Grower and Adviser Updates and at each, we asked growers, advisers and researchers to have input into our five-year strategic R&D plan for 2012–17. If you took the time to have your say you are helping decide how the more than $150 million from grower levies and government funding that we invest annually will return the greatest benefit to our industry. It is critical that the investment we make on your behalf...
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Ground Cover
- Issue Number
- 96
Over recent months we have been consulting with Australia’s R&D community on a draft outline of this plan. Recognising that the timeframe for consultation is tight, and that growers and their advisers will not be available until February 2012 due to winter crop harvest and summer crop management activities, we have conducted preliminary consultations with the R&D community as well as some other targeted commercial organisations such as breeders, downstream processors, marketers and bulk handlers. These consultations have occurred in...
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Ground Cover
- Issue Number
- 95
In recent weeks John Harvey (GRDC Managing Director) has been travelling extensively throughout Australia’s grain regions, talking with growers and agribusiness professionals. The objective has been to gain, first-hand, growers’ local research needs and perspectives. It has been a very valuable exercise, reaffirming the rationale behind changes being implemented to the way the GRDC delivers research, development and extension (RD&E).