GRDC Grains Research Updates, online bring you the latest grains research straight to your screen. Log in for a selection of the latest farm-ready research and regionally relevant topics. Webinar topics and links will be listed below when they go live.
Dates and topics for May-July 2024 webinars
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- Thursday 23 May - The economics of ameliorating dispersive soils
- Tuesday 28 May - N fixation
- Tuesday 4 June - Aerial application, drones and market access to EU canola markets
- Tuesday 11 June - Grain storage update for the Northern & Southern Regions
- Thursday 13 June - Grain storage update for the western region
- Tuesday 2 July - N banking - role in northern region and probable risk/reward
- Thursday 4 July - How does attitude to risk influence decision making?
1-day GRDC Grains Research Updates
Topics for 1-day GRDC Grains Research Updates are chosen by a local planning committee comprising local growers and agronomists. This ensures that agendas cover priority research issues that are regionally relevant. Locations of the 1-day Updates change each year.
Dates and locations for July/August 2024 1-day GRDC Grains Research Updates
- Talwood - Tuesday 23 July 2024 - Talwood Community Hall, 14 Main St, Talwood Qld 4496
- Walgett - Wednesday 24 July 2024 - Walgett Sporting Club, 10 Montkeila Street, Walgett NSW 2832
- Pittsworth - Thursday 1 August 2024 - Pittsworth Function Centre, 42 Hume Street, Pittsworth Qld 4356
- Jandowae - Friday 2 August 2024 - Jandowae Memorial Hall, George & Market Streets, Jandowae Qld 4410
- Osborne - Tuesday 13 August 2024 - Osborne Football Club, Yerong Creek Road between Lockhart and Yerong Creek, Osborne NSW 2656
- Grenfell - Wednesday 14 August 2024 - Grenfell Bowling Club, Cross Street, Grenfell NSW 2810
- Trangie - Thursday 15 August 2024 - Trangie Agricultural Research Centre, 7878 Mitchell Hwy, Trangie NSW 2823
Cost: $30 per person. Lunch, morning tea and proceedings provided.
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1-day GRDC Farm Business Updates
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2-day Updates
Researchers, agronomists, growers and consultants network, share ideas and update their knowledge at the 2-day GRDC Grains Research Updates. If you are involved in the production side of the grains industry, these are events that you cannot afford to miss.
Dates and location for 'Goondi-in-July', 2-day GRDC Grains Research Update
- Goondiwindi, Qld (Community Centre) - Tuesday 30 & Wednesday 31 July 2024
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'Goondi in July' Grains Research Update Agenda/Flier
Livestream of Goondi-in-July GRDC Grains Research Update
The main auditorium sessions at Goondi-in-July will be live streamed for online viewing. Those that register for the free live stream will receive links closer to the event and a link to the online proceedings. Only sessions in the main auditorium are livestreamed. Please refer to agenda.
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Dates and locations for the February/March 2025, 2-day GRDC Grains Research Updates
- Wagga Wagga, NSW (CSU) - Tuesday 11 & Wednesday 12 February 2025
- Dubbo, NSW (RSL) - Thursday 27 February & Friday February 28 2025
- Goondiwindi, Qld (Community Centre) - Tuesday 4 March & Wednesday 5 March 2025
GRDC Grains Research Updates, livestream - Recordings
- Goondiwindi GRDC Grains Research Update - March 2024
- Wagga Wagga GRDC Grains Research Update - February 2024
- Goondiwindi GRDC Grains Research Update - February/March 2023
- Wagga Wagga GRDC Grains Research Update - February 2023
- Carbon system footprints, sequestration and climate models - February 2022
- Farming systems – crop sequence and nutrition – SNSW - February 2022
- online – Nutritional strategies for 2022 – SNSW - February 2022
- Weed recognition technologies and disc seeders - February 2022
- Cereal disease and subsoil – SNSW - February 2022
- Cereals and sensor technologies - February 2022
- Hyper yielding crops - February 2022
- Capitalising on great seasons; root architecture and a new tool to estimate soil water - February 2022
- Weeds - February 2022
- Canola - February 2022
- Chickpeas - February 2022
- Farming systems – dual purpose crops in the medium rainfall zone of central/southern NSW and summer sown pasture legumes - February 2022
- Farming system carbon footprints and sequestration options. Also, Satellite imagery for remote crop sensing - March 2022
- Farming Systems – NNSW & Qld - March 2022
- Nutrition – NNSW & Qld - March 2022
- Ameliorating sodicity – Central & Northern NSW & Qld - March 2022
- Disease – NNSW & Qld - March 2022
- Early sown sorghum and SpaceAg - March 2022
- Nutritional decision making for 2022 – NNSW & Qld - March 2022
- Nindigully GRDC Grains Research Update - August 2021
- Millmerran GRDC Grains Research Update - August 2021
- Wagga Wagga GRDC Grains Research Update - February 2021
- Dalby GRDC Grains Research Update - March 2021
- Narrabri GRDC Grains Research Update - March 2021
GRDC Grains Research Updates, online - Recordings
Links to recordings are available below
- Looking beyond forecast uncertainty and seasonal outlook 2024 - March 2024
- Fall armyworm - management considerations and risk assessment - February 2024
- Oats - October 2023
- Using the WAND Inversion Tower Network – How to access and interpret data - September 2023
- Using seasonal forecasts for better on-farm cropping decisions - September 2023
- Managing acid soils - better performing pulses and making money from new acid tolerant rhizobia strains - August 2023
- Managing soil acidity - Identifying pH stratification to guide lime rates, acid soil management strategies and cropping programs - August 2023
- Zonal approaches to managing frost risk - August 2023
- Managing foliar diseases in oats and an update on crown-rot in cereals - August 2023
- What happened in April when satellite GPS enabled systems failed & options to manage future outages - June 2023
- Advances to assist growers to interpret weather and climate forecasts - June 2023
- GRDC Grains Research Update, online – Optimising clethodim efficacy and haloxyfop MRL issues in export canola - June 2023
- Irrigation efficiency - May 2023
- NSW DPI/GRDC Soybean pre-season update - December 2022
- The new inversion tower network and reducing spray drift risk - November 2022
- Storing rain affected grain in a wet harvest - November 2022
- Keeping rain affected grain for seed - November 2022
- Harvesting canola in a La Nina: how late can you windrow, & header settings for direct heading - November 2022
- Wet conditions and high insect pressure and changed behaviour - what to look out for - October 2022
- Stripe rust update for spring 2022 – what’s happening? - September 2022
- Managing new stripe rust pathotypes in durum and crown rust in oats - August 2022
- Safflower agronomy, market opportunities for and field experience with the new high oleic acid variety - August 2022
- Summer crop agronomy and options for Central Western NSW - August 2022
- Grain quality in storage - June 2022
- Nitrogen and its impact on the greenhouse gas footprint of grain production in the northern grains region of Australia - June 2022
- The Australian Grains Industry demand drivers in 2022 and changes issues at 2040 - May 2022
- Biological nitrogen banking with legumes in the SNSW cropping systems – how hardseeded summer legumes can make a difference - May 2022
- Mungbean diseases - December 2021
- Mungbean agronomy - November 2021
- Canola harvest management - September 2021
- Mouse update – spring management in winter crops and in the lead up to summer crop sowing - September 2021
- cereal and chickpea disease update - August 2021
- Strategies for managing glyphosate resistant broadleaves (sowthistle and fleabane) - June 2021
- Strategies for managing feathertop Rhodes grass and ecology and biology of windmill grass - June 2021
- Spray application and buffer zones - May 2021
- Farming plant available water – Differences in crop ability to extract soil water and implications for subsequent crops - May 2021
- Re-thinking N across the farming system - May 2021
- Forewarned is forearmed, exploring new forecast products for more informed decisions - May 2021
- Cereal disease management for 2021 - risks on the horizon, things to be wary of after 2020 - April 2021
- Mice - February 2021
- Changing nutrition strategies for profit in CQ - November 2020
- Strategies to help crops deal with heat in CQ - November 2020
- Fall armyworm - November 2020
- Estimating soil plant available water capacity (PAWC) - November 2020
- Chickpeas - September 2020
- Rhizobia - September 2020
- Sorghum for 2050 - September 2020
- Future Farming - September 2020
- Sorghum for human consumption - September 2020
- Grains industry in 2030 - September 2020
- Diseases (north NSW/Qld) - August 2020
- Diseases (southern/central NSW) - August 2020
- Farming systems (north) - August 2020
- Farming systems (southern NSW) - August 2020
- Mungbean physiology, rhizobium & nematodes - August 2020
- Feathertop Rhodes grass (southern NSW) - August 2020
- Mungbean agronomy and WUE - August 2020
- Peanuts and soybeans - August 2020
- Summer crops in western regions - July 2020
- Early sown sorghum - July 2020
- Optimising crop production – Capitalising on a good start (Moama) - July 2020
- Irrigation (north) - July 2020
- Dual purpose crops - July 2020
Papers from previous GRDC Updates
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2024 Grains Research Updates
- Burren Junction - March 2024
- Goondiwindi - March 2024
- Dubbo - February 2024
- Baradine - February 2024
- Corowa - February 2024
- Wagga Wagga - February 2024
2023 Grains Research Updates
- Emerald - November 2023
- Moura - November 2023
- North Star - August 2023
- Westmar - August 2023
- West Wyalong - July 2023
- Cowra - July 2023
- Spring Ridge - July 2023
- Bellata - July 2023
- Warra - July 2023
- Mullaley - March 2023
- Goondiwindi - Feb/March 2023
- Forbes - February 2023
- Dubbo - February 2023
- Corowa - February 2023
- Wagga Wagga - February 2023
2022 Grains Research Updates
- Biloela - November 2022
- Capella - November 2022
- Temora - August 2022
- Lockhart - August 2022
- Goondiwindi - July 2022
- Pittsworth - July 2022
- Miles - July 2022
- Gunnedah - July 2022
- Spring Plains - July 2022
2021 Grains Research Updates
- Gunnedah - August 2021
- Walgett - August 2021
- Millmerran - August 2021
- Nindigully - August 2021
- Hillston - July 2021
- Jerilderie - July 2021
- Wagga Wagga - February 2021
- West Wyalong - February 2021
- Tottenham - February 2021
- Coonamble - February 2021
- Dubbo - February 2021
- Dalby - March 2021
- Meandarra - March 2021
- Narrabri - March 2021
2020 Grains Research Updates
- Toowoomba (summer crop) - July 2020
- Chinchilla - July 2020
- Talwood - July 2020
- North Star - July 2020
- Burren Junction - July 2020
- Mullaley - July 2020
- Narrandera - August 2020
- Rankins Springs - August 2020
- Dubbo - February 2020
- Nyngan - February 2020
- Goondiwindi - March 2020
- Mungindi - March 2020
- Barellan - March 2020
- Lake Cargelligo - March 2020
- Gulargambone - March 2020
- Bellata - March 2020
2019 Grains Research Updates
- Moura - November 2019
- Capella - November 2019
- Walgett - August 2019
- Warialda - August 2019
- Quirindi - August 2019
- Dalby - August 2019
- Surat - August 2019
- Dubbo - February 2019
- Coolah - February 2019
- Spring Plains - March 2019
- Goondiwindi - March 2019
- Moonie - March 2019
- Warra - March 2019
2018 Grains Research Updates
- Biloela - December 2018
- Emerald - December 2018
- Narromine - July 2018
- Gunnedah - July 2018
- North Star - July 2018
- Pittsworth - July 2018
- Allora - March 2018
- Goondiwindi - March 2018
- Breeza - March 2018
- Wee Waa - March 2018
- Dubbo - February 2018
2017 Grains Research Updates
- Pallamallawa - July 2017
- Rowena - July 2017
- Narromine - July 2017
- Jondaryan - July 2017
- Westmar - July 2017
- Gulargambone - February 2017
- Dubbo - February 2017
- Goondiwindi - March 2017
- Condamine - March 2017
- Bellata - March 2017
2016 Grains Research Updates
- Coonabarabran - February 2016
- Walgett - February 2016
- Nyngan - February 2016
- Goondiwindi - March 2016
- North Star - March 2016
- Toowoomba - June 2016
- Chinchilla - June 2016
- Gilgandra - July 2016
- Mullaley - July 2016
- Narrabri - July 2016