GRDC Podcast

Frost is a costly and often unpredictable problem that costs Australian grain growers more than $300 million a year, but the GRDC’s National Frost Initiative is proactively working to develop more frost resistant varieties, identify best frost management practices and to create tools to predict frosts. It’s important to recognise the psychological and financial cost of frost and how devastating it...

Change is a continual process, Nadine says. The key is investing the same amount in people as we do in infrastructure and technology, so that rural industries can move through change events confidently and survive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mike says while we have a wealth of knowledge in Australia about above-ground plant components, we don’t understand enough about roots – how variable they are between species and how they respond to different soil conditions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Using the autopilot from a drone as the ‘brains’ of their vehicles, Martin and his colleagues aimed to prove that mechatronics could reduce damage to crops and soil from humans and large machines. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pulse markets were thrown into disarray during last year’s harvest when India imposed tariffs on imports of chickpeas and lentils. On this podcast Chief Executive Officer of AGT Foods Australia Peter Wilson tells us about the current state of play in the pulse market in Australia and overseas. Further information: Peter Wilson, CEO, AGT Foods Australia 07 46306139 email: pwilson@agtfoods.com Learn...

A five-year survey of the entire Australian cropping belt has revealed a sobering picture of growing herbicide resistance in key cropping weeds. Dr John Broster from the Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation heads up a joint herbicide resistance monitoring project between Charles Sturt University, Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Universities of Adelaide and Western A...

Grain growers attending this year’s Henty Field days had the opportunity to hear timely advice from specialists such as NSW DPI’s southern pastures program leader Nigel Phillips. Nigel was one of four speakers at the GRDC NSW DPI Tough Season Questions Answered forum, held as part of the field days. After addressing the forum Nigel Phillips recorded this podcast and summarised the messages he deli...

Another of the speakers at the Henty Field Days grower forum was NSW DPI’s research agronomist Graeme Sandral. Graeme spoke about the seed quality issues that can result from a tough season and how they impact next year’s grain yield. In this podcast Graeme Sandral also discusses crop nutrition and fertiliser management next season. Graeme points out that because less nutrient will leave the paddo...

Lessons learnt from past droughts and frosts events need to be applied to this season, especially in regards to determining the feed quality of a crop. This was some of the advise passed onto grain growers by NSW DPI Feed lab chemist Richard Meyer at the Henty Field Days grain grower forum. The forum was organised by GRDC and NSW DPI to provide growers with an opportunity to get good farm manageme...

At the recent southern NSW, Henty Field Days, GRDC with NSW DPI presented a special grower forum called Tough Season Questions Answered. The idea of the forum was to give grain growers an opportunity to hear timely advise on crop management decisions and have their questions answered. One of the speakers was Dr Felicity Harris a Cereal Physiologist with NSW DPI who highlighted the need to identify...