In addition to being run as a face-to-face Update, the Main Auditorium sessions at the Goondi-in-July GRDC Grains Research Update will be live streamed for online viewing. Not all concurrent sessions will be run in the Main Auditorium, so not all sessions will be live streamed. The livestream has been broken down into individual Zoom webinars for people to select those they are interested in. Click on the registration button below the session(s) of interest to register for that session.

***Please note all times are AEST time***

Day 1 - Tuesday 30 July 2024

Goondiwindi Session 1 – General plenary day 1

Date: Tuesday 30 July 2024

Time: 10:00am – 12:25pm AEST

Topics:

10:00 am - GRDC welcome

10:30 am - Opportunities for on-farm decision making and data management from high resolution earth observation satellites and drones - case studies. Tim Neale (DataFarming)

11:05 am - Connectivity & data access / management options in more remote locations - what’s available now, known potential disruptors and risks of tech obsolescence. Tom Andrews (Connected Farms)

11:35 am - Mapping soil constraints in 3D for more informed decisions on soil water and constraints. Brendan Griffiths (Data-Ag)

12:05 pm - Improving grain grower business resilience before, during and post drought. ARMonline tools to assist on-farm decision making by enabling outcomes of different cropping scenarios to be compared. Keith Pembleton (USQ)

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Nutrition

Date: Tuesday 30 July 2024

Time: 1:15pm – 3:00pm AEST

Topics:

1:15 pm - Riskwi$e – managing N risk in farming systems – implications of N banking and other strategies. Lindsay Bell (CSIRO)

1:50 pm - SmartFarm testing of 270 paddocks across 90 farms to better understand soil health changes and implications for management over a 10-year period. Jayne Gentry (QDAF)

2:20 pm - Impacts of long-term cropping on soil carbon. Meghan Barnard (UQ, PhD candidate)

2:50 pm - Discussion on nutritional strategies leading into summer 2024/25 and winter 2025

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Time for a pea?

Date: Tuesday 30 July 2024

Time: 3:30pm – 5:15pm AEST

Topics:

3:30 pm - Managing Ascochyta blight in chickpeas - varietal genetics, increasing levels of pathogen virulence and new strategies to reduce inoculum loads. Ido Bar (Griffith University)

3:55 pm - Effect of soil water on flowering and pod-set in chickpea and implications for managing frost and heat stress. Yash Chauhan (QDAF)

4:20 pm - Pigeon pea performance in field trials and its prospects as a rotation crop in northern farming systems. Bruce Winter (QDAF)

4:50 pm - Keeping the insects out of pigeon pea - key pests and strategies. Trevor Volp (QDAF)

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Day 2 - Wednesday 31 July 2024

Mungbeans

Date: Wednesday 31 July 2024

Time: 8:30am – 10:15am AEST

Topics:

8:30 am - Mitigating mungbean risk – time of sowing, soil water and management. Kylie Wenham (UQ)

8:55 am - Mungbean harvest management - swathing, desiccation & MRL's. Jayne Gentry (QDAF)

9:20 am - New insight and tools to increase yield potential and reliability in mungbean. Shanice van Haeften (UQ, PhD candidate)

9:45 am - Managing powdery mildew in mungbean. Lisa Kelly (QDAF, PhD candidate)

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Crop protection

Date: Wednesday 31 July 2024

Time: 10:45am – 12:30pm AEST

Topics:

10:45 am - Incidence of reduced sensitivity to DMI fungicides in barley net blotch in Qld - implications for management. Noel Knight (USQ)

11:05 am - Rutherglen bug: risk forecasting and management - factors that impact risk in grain sorghum and canola. RGB vs. Grey cluster bug ID (Nysius caledoniae). Zorica Duric (NSW DPI) & Hazel Parry (CSIRO)

11:40 am - Using plant growth regulators to manage excessive growth in barley in the northern region. Matt Gardner (AMPS Research)

12:05 pm - Root-lesion nematode tolerance, resistance ratings & selecting varieties to minimise losses. Wheat and mungbean yield impacts. Jason Sheedy (USQ)

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Goondiwindi GRDC Grains Research Update – General plenary 2

Date: Wednesday 31 July 2024

Time: 1:30pm – 3:15pm AEST

Topics:

1:30 pm - Fall armyworm impacts & thresholds in sorghum & maize - management options & guidance for 2024/25. Melina Miles (QDAF) & Joe Eyre (UQ)

2:05 pm - Why ethics will be important for agricultural professionals as the agtech sector develops. Elizabeth Read (AIA)

2:35 pm - Cereal rust & disease management update Steven Simpfendorfer (NSW DPI)

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