A Thursday throwback: taking a look at @AGRITECHNICA 2023! 🌾✨ Held every 2 years in Hanover, this event spans 40ha & showcases the latest & greatest tech from around the world. GRDC’s Tom Giles & Dr Jake Humpal were there to witness it all. Read more 👉

🚚🛳️🚆 Request for proposals - #ValueChainInnovation We're undertaking an open RD&E call to tackle critical challenges and opportunities along the value chain. This is an opportunity to drive breakthrough innovations that will enhance profitability and sustainability for Australian grain growers. Applications close 5:00pm AEDT Wednesday 26 February 2025. Find out more ▶️ #Opportunity #RequestforProposal #ValueChainInnovation

🎙️ NEW PODCAST Although awareness of and access to rural mental health services is growing, agronomists can sometimes find themselves on the frontline witnessing or discussing issues with growers that go beyond the paddock. In this GRDC podcast, Assoc Prof Kate Gunn (@KateMGunn @UniversitySA @ifarmwell_) shares her insight on how agronomists can handle tough conversations with growers who could be experiencing mental ill health. 📞Lifeline 13 11 14 📞Beyond Blue 1300 224 636 Listen now ▶️ #GRDCPodcast

We had a fabulous time last week at the Adelaide GRDC Grains Research Update catching up with everyone and learning about new research results. Thanks to the record number of people who attended in person - nearly 500 people! Plus all the people who participated online. If you couldn't attend in person, you can catch up on all the details by checking out the proceedings 👇👇👇 #GRDCUpdate @ORMPtyLtd Thanks everyone 🙏

🎬 NEW VIDEO In a bid to help Ausssie growers reduce crop losses due to #mouse damage, a GRDC investment is examining mouse bait application techniques to better understand the performance and efficacy of various options. @1800weevil @MouseAlert Watch now ▶️ #GRDCVideo

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New and experienced agronomists are invited to the 2025 PREDICTA®B Soilborne Disease Workshops to build skills, and knowledge on identification and management of soilborne disease. Running is SA, WA, VIC and NSW in Feb and March. @SA_PIRSA Find out more ▶️ Register ▶️

📆 Back for 2025! Our popular 'career opportunities in the grains industry' session is back at the #GRDCUpdates in Perth on February 24 & 25! Read more and find out how to register ▶️ @GrainIndustryWA #GroundCoverOnline #GrainsCareers #PerthUpdate #CrownPerth

Happy World Pulse Day! 🥘 This year's theme is "Bringing diversity to agrifood systems". World Pulse Day is part of the @GrainsLegumesNC's Pulses Week. #WorldPulseDay #PulsesWeek #LoveYourLegumes

Join us in celebrating Adjunct Professor Jairo Palta’s remarkable contributions to the global agricultural community! 👏 With a long-standing association with GRDC, Professor Palta has led & contributed to numerous national R&D initiatives to improve nitrogen uptake & nitrogen-use efficiency in wheat and lupins. This esteemed grains scientist was elected a Fellow of the @ASA_CSSA_SSSA, one of the highest honours conferred by this prestigious body. Read more 👉

⚠️ Grain storage advice ⚠️ "We spend a lot of time monitoring the crop while it's growing. But it's really important to apply the same level of vigilance to the grain when it's in storage." Watch the full video ▶️ #GRDCVideo #GrainStorage

🐌🐌 Flagged through the GRDC #NationalGrowerNetwork as a serious problem by growers in WA, a new research investments is investigating the calcium requirements of pest #snails and the impacts of #liming on snail populations: @MurdochUni @UniofAdelaide @SA_PIRSA

🚜 NEW PADDOCK PRACTICES – Tips to reduce the impact of #mungbean #powderymildew 🌱 Sow early in summer & plan fungicide applications 📱 Use the PowderyMildewMBM app to check whether to spray 🧪 Fungicide products with actives from 2 Mode of Action groups are usually better 🛑 Don’t spray before seeing powdery mildew in the paddock Read the full article 👉 @unisqaus | @ILSE_UniSQ | @leventekiss17

Understanding how artificial intelligence is helping to grow farming, advances in spray technology and greenhouse gas emissions on-farm, are some of the headline topics at next month's #GRDCUpdate in Bendigo. Dimboola, Victoria agricultural extension consultant and GRDC Southern Panel Deputy Chair Pru Cook said the Updates were an invaluable networking opportunity for growers, advisers and researchers to engage and discuss key issues for the coming season. 📍 Bendigo 📅 24-25 February More info: Register: Full program: Look forward to seeing you there!

🎙️ NEW PODCAST Significant research is underway to help WA farmers sustain their own on-farm nitrogen factory though growing and harvesting pasture legume seed. @MurdochUni @DPIRDbroadacre @CSIRO Listen now ▶️ #GRDCPodcast #Legumes #Nitrogen

“We have much to gain from our different experiences and perspectives” Growers, researchers & agronomists will gather to collaborate and get the latest updates on recent RD&E outcomes at GRDC Grains Research Updates in NSW & southern Queensland. First up is Wagga Wagga for the northern growing region next week! Read more 👉 #GRDCUpdate

Our 2025 season of Grains Research Updates has started! 🥳 The Adelaide Update was first of the rank but there's loads more to come - across Australia, and across all grain-growing regions. 👉 Find a #GRDCUpdate near you Never been to one? Not sure what you are missing out on? Check out our video to find out! 👇👇👇

An exciting morning at the Adelaide #GRDCUpdate with our Chair Sharon Starick interviewed by @ABCRural Country Hour SA. Plenty of grains RD&E updates still to share this afternoon. Check them out on @GRDCSouth🙌🙌

🌱 When Southern Cross grower @Callum_Wesley reached out to @CSIRO plant geneticist @rebetzke_0 in 2020, he set in motion a research investment that has grown from an on-farm scale into a national project. Callum’s advocacy, and similar interest from other growers across WA, is credited for kickstarting further investment into agronomic and farming systems guidelines for long coleoptile wheat: #GroundCoverOnline #LongColeoptileWheat #SowingDepth

The impact of #NationalVarietyTrials extends beyond variety selection, thanks to its 20 years of independent data 🌾 @GrainsAustralia's Jen Lillecrapp uses #NVT data to develop frameworks for classifying pulse varieties based on market & end-use quality requirements. “This resource sharing means we can use the data to build pulse classification systems based on quality characteristics that will deliver value for growers, the wider grains industry supply chain, and our customers.” Read the full story 👉 #NVT20Years @GRDC_NVT