Pest insects are being monitored and tracked across the country’s high-rainfall zones (HRZs) through new research to link integrated pest management (IPM) and natural resource management for better crop yields.

The GRDC Board is accountable to Australia's grain growers, through the industry peak organisation and to the Commonwealth Parliament, through the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. The GRDC Board normally has between seven and nine directors.

The Chairman is selected and appointed by the Minister. Mr Keith Perrett was appointed by the Minister on 1 October 2007, and reappointed until 30 September 2013.

The Managing Director is appointed by the Board of the Corporation. The Managing Director is the sole Executive Director and holds office at the Corporation's pleasure. John Harvey was appointed as the GRDC’s Managing Director on 1 March 2011.

Five to seven Directors are appointed by the Minister, on advice from a selection committee selected by the Minister. On 22 November 2011 the Minister announced the appointment of 6 directors, until 30 September 2014.

Stem rust inoculum levels in late spring and early summer have southern growers on crop monitoring duty as the damaging pathogen takes hold across the high rainfall grain zone.

The cereal pathogen stripe rust and its damaging cousin stem rust are presenting a real and present danger to grain yields in high rainfall zone (HRZ) cereal crops – despite the late onset of incursions.

Binnu grower Rohan Ford has had a front-row seat in the first Australian study to explore the effects of ants and termites in dryland cropping.

Hundreds of school students in Western Australia have taken on a real-world agricultural science project to protect barley crops from the damaging disease powdery mildew.

Study topics range from business structures and weather data in decision making, to weed control, seed coatings and energy efficiency for the GRDC’s latest Nuffield scholars.

Earthworms are renowned for their ability as ‘ecosystem engineers’ to improve soils in farming systems, but now the productive benefits of ants and termites have surfaced on a Western Australian property

In our popular series following a group of growers through the season, we see how people have been preparing for this year’s harvest. Their responses reflect the situation at the end of September

Growers pay the price if biosecurity concerns are ignored, says Queensland’s Peter Mifsud