A succession of short-season peanut varieties, through the Australian peanut-breeding program, is recasting the legume as a profitable sequencing option that allows growers to avoid late-season drought.
Ground Cover spotlights the efforts of the Morgan family in South Australia's southern Mallee to mitigate the effects of frost on their farming business.
GRDC’s accountability to levy-paying grain growers continues to shape talks between the organisation and the joint grower representative organisations to which it now reports – Grain Producers Australia and Grain Growers Limited.
A series of technical baking workshops for flour millers, bakeries and food companies in Indonesia and the Philippines are part of a new project to increase the volume and value of Australian wheat used in the Asian bread sector.
The Herbicide Innovation Partnership between GRDC and Bayer officially got underway in March with a ceremony at Bayer’s global Weed Resistance Competence Centre in Frankfurt, Germany.
The potential for sowing direction and row spacing to reduce weeds is being tested in a two-year trial by Birchip Cropping Group in north-western Victoria.
University of Adelaide scientists mapping the extent of herbicide resistance in annual ryegrass across southern Australia’s high-rainfall zone have concluded that pre-emergent herbicide use is essential.
Despite extremely high rates of glyphosate resistance in weeds in North and South America, leading Australian weed research scientist Professor Stephen Powles says the chemical is still effective on most Australian farms.