GRDC Ground Cover Radio

Welcome to Ground Cover Radio with your hosts Chris Brown and Linda Allen.

A $50 million step-up in targeted grains research has been secured with a five-year deal between the GRDC and the South Australian Research and Development Institute.

Australia’s largest plant breeding company Australian Grain Technologies is adding lupins to its grain’s breeding portfolio.

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 CEO of Adelaide-based Australian Grain Technologies, Dr Steve Jefferies, has been appointed the new managing director of the GRDC.

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.

GRDC has increased its presence outside of Canberra with the opening of new offices in the first part of the year at Dubbo and Perth and more recently Adelaide.

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 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.

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.

Early sowing has become the norm in many grain-growing areas, but only now are some people openly saying why: our climate has changed.

AEGIC has released detailed maps showing how rainfall zone have moved southwards.

The National Insecticide Resistance Management working group of the Grains Pest Advisory Committee has just finalised the first Resistance Management Strategy for red-legged earth mites in grain crops and pastures.

A purpose designed tractor is getting to the heart of sorghum

Hear about a WA grower who is convinced that growers have a lot to gain from getting closer to their consumers - even into their kitchens.

A Chinese food company has calculated that that it might be more economic to base their distribution network at the point of production.

A review of some of the major reports at the recent GRDC research updates.

The Australian grains industry has continued its market extension with customers in Asia, through conferences in Singapore and China.

A new report from AEGIC says Ukrainian wheat has the potential to displace Australian exports in key South-East Asian markets.

Welcome to Ground Cover Radio with your hosts, Chris Brown and Linda Allen.