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.

For growers in the Mallee and Wimmera, an eleventh-hour rain-front at the end of September signalled the difference between a below-average and an average season.

Like any successful union, the relationship Ward McKenzie enjoys with pulse and cereal growers is founded on trust, loyalty and mutual gain.

Remediating sandy soils with clay-rich subsoil can often generate substantial crop yield improvements, providing appropriate methods are followed.

The Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) has responded to the emerging mouse crisis across Australia’s southern grain growing region by mounting an emergency live information broadcast.

The internet broadcast will feature a video discussion with key experts from the National Mouse Management Working Group and will allow growers and other stakeholders to ask questions of the panel from wherever they are sitting at a computer. The regulator responsible for mouse control permits, the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA), has also indicated that representative will participate in the discussion forum.

http://vioca.st/GRDC_Mouse_Control_Broadcast

Take home messages
• The livestock industries offer a growing market for grain growers.
• AusScan NIR technology shows there is large variability in available energy for pigs, poultry, cattle and sheep feeding.
• There is little difference between red and white wheats in dairy cattle feeding as confirmed through feeding trials and AusScan testing.
• AusScan is being used to assess quality for weather damaged grains.
• Testing of grain quality using AusScan technology offers benefits in better matching grain supply to end use demand.

Lachlan Caldwell says growing dryland sorghum can be profitable in southern NSW provided there is a full profile of stored soil moisture at sowing followed by a cool, wet summer and effective weed control.

The Gene Scene

Go Grains

The factors driving resistance evolution and the inheritance of resistance for confirmed resistant weeds to Groups I, L and M will be determined, published in international journals with at least 1 paper submitted per year, and used to develop improved preventive and management strategies. National strategies with proven tactics are developed, regionally adapted for the Western, Southern and Northern Regions, accepted locally, and communicated widely to industry. The extent of the current problem, economic impacts and risks for new evolutions of resistance to glyphosate and Group I herbicides are identified and communicated to grains and other industries.