Two key soil-borne diseases suspected to be emerging threats for South Australian pulse crops are the subject of laboratory research, DNA sequencing and efforts to develop PREDICTA® B testing framework.
The South Australian Grain Industry Trust is welcoming a new Chairman and trustee to its board, bolstering its wealth of expertise leading the South Australian grains research sector.
Growers in South Australia’s low rainfall cropping regions could soon have access to better-suited lentil varieties with unique traits, with a South Australian Grain Industry Trust funded project underway.
With spring just around the corner, growers should be starting to keep an eye out for winged pest insects in grain crops.
SOUTH Australian growers will have access to a huge range of research and farm management information on soils as the South Australian Grain Industry Trust and leading SA farming systems groups form part of a new Co-operative Research Centre (CRC).
Significant differences between productivity and profitability of break crop options have been highlighted in Mallee Sustainable Farming’s SAGIT-funded project, ‘Adopting profitable crop sequences in the SA Mallee’, with high-value legumes proving their ability to offer farmers considerable benefits for diversity over continuous wheat.
Use of field-based infrared spectroscopy in crop sensing equipment has the potential to significantly improve efficiencies in identifying plant nitrogen (N) content and water-soluble carbohydrates (WSC) across wheat and barley crops.
Development of double-haploid breeding populations to fast track production of dual-purpose awnless wheat for frost-prone areas of South Australia has the potential to drastically cut losses – estimated to cost growers about $33 million a year – and give them more profitable options for grain and hay production.
With the grains industry suffering a skills shortage, a SAGIT-funded internship is encouraging graduates to take up a career in the agriculture sector. Grains research intern Danielle Allen says she wants a career in grains research when her internship at the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) finishes in…
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology is being utilized as part of a three-year trial funded by SAGIT to effectively identify barley grass densities in cereal crops on Upper Eyre Peninsula.