This project is funded through investment from the Grains Research & Development Corporation (GRDC).

Project Overview

Background

This five-year National Risk Management Initiative (2023 – 28) aims to understand and improve the risk-reward outcomes for Australian grain growers by supporting grower on-farm decision-making. The project will take a Participatory Action Research (PAR) approach involving a network of 26 grower groups, 10 research partners, and 6 research group leads nation-wide.

The GGA will collaborate with the Grains Research Development Corporation (GRDC), and CSIRO, as well as 8 Western Australian grower group project partners including, Stirlings to Coast Farmers, South-East Premium Wheat Growers Association (SEPWA), Facey Group, Corrigin Farm Improvement Group (CFIG), Western Australian No-Tillage Farmers Association (WANTFA), Liebe Group, West Midlands Group (WMG), and Mingenew Irwin Group (MIG)

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2023 Objectives

In 2023, Stirlings to Coast Farmers will establish a comprehensive small plot trial, along with auxiliary models, to measure the impact of crop rotation and nitrogen strategies on nitrogen use efficiency, carbon emission efficiency, and profitability, to increase grower nitrogen decision-making confidence and ultimately improve grain productivity and sustainability in the HRZ of Southwest WA.

Returns for Growers

By the end of the 2023/24 season, this project will deliver to growers within the HRZ of WA a set of baseline nitrogen use efficiencies (NUE), yield responses and carbon calculations, for three different N strategies across three crop types (and over the following three years, phased crop sequences).

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