GRDC Grains Research Updates, Live Stream
In addition to being run as a face-to-face Update, the Convention Centre sessions at the Wagga Wagga GRDC Grains Research Update will be live streamed for online viewing. Not all concurrent sessions will be run in the Convention Centre, 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 those session(s).
If you are interested in the Goondiwindi GRDC Grains Research Update livestream please go here: Goondiwindi GRDC Grains Research Update livestream registration page
Day 1 - Tuesday 11 February 2025
Wagga Wagga General Plenary Day 1
Date: Tuesday 11 February 2025
Time: 10:00am – 12:20pm AEDT
Topics:
10:00 am - Welcome (GRDC)
10:30 am - N cycling and loss pathways – what don't we know and what insights and questions have come from preliminary data sets in a major new national project. Mike Bell (UQ)
11:05 am - Interactions between water & plant nutrition. Victor Sadras (SARDI)
11:40 am - Regional fungicide resistance and disease management update. Brad Baxter (NSW DPIRD)
Farming Systems
Date: Tuesday 11 February 2025
Time: 1:20pm – 3:05pm AEDT
Topics:
1:20 pm – Incidence and impact of sclerotinia in canola from double break strategies. Kurt Lindbeck (NSW DPIRD)
1:50 pm - Farming systems impact on soil biology, soil pathogens and system resilience. Gupta Vadakattu (CSIRO)
2:20 pm - Fabas – what have we learnt from 4 years of trials; plant density, disease, sowing date, N fixation & variety choice. Rohan Brill (Brill Ag)
2:50 pm - Panel session. Kurt Lindbeck, Gupta Vadakattu & Rohan Brill
Nutrition
Date: Tuesday 11 February 2025
Time: 3:35pm – 5:20pm AEDT
Topics:
3:35 pm – Response of wheat, chickpea and canola to dual P fertiliser placement in South-Eastern Australia. Shihab Uddin (NSW DPIRD), Olivia Brunton (CSIRO)
4:05 pm - N loss pathways and levers to mitigate loss. Mike Bell (Uni of Qld)
4:35 pm - Comparing risk & reward of different N decisions – insights from farming system and RiskWi$e research. James Hunt (Uni of Melb)
5:00 pm - Panel session. Shihab Uddin, Olivia Brunton, James Hunt & Mike Bell
Day 2 - Wednesday 12 February 2025
Grain Automate
Date: Wednesday 12 February 2025
Time: 8:30am – 10:15am AEDT
Topics:
8:30 am – On farm autonomy – connectivity, robots and machinery. Tom Andrews (Connected Farms)
9:00 am - The autonomous agronomist – automating data collection tasks for agros. Tim Neale (Data Farming)
9:30 am - Technology to enable site-specific herbicide application or prescriptions. Alec Duffy (Syngenta)
Soils
Date: Wednesday 12 February 2025
Time: 10:45am – 12:30pm AEDT
Topics:
10:45 am – Subsoil amelioration on clay soils in South-Eastern Australia: where will it succeed? Roger Armstrong (Vic Agriculture)
11:15 am - Lime incorporation: cost/benefit from different approaches. Jason Condon (CSU)
11:50 am - Lime response on acid, low rainfall, sandy soils of South-Western NSW. Albert Gorman (AgGrow)
12:10 pm - Panel discussion. Roger Armstrong, Jason Condon & Albert Gorman
General plenary 2
Date: Wednesday 12 February 2025
Time: 1:30pm – 2:40pm AEDT
Topics:
1:30 pm – Scaling up 10 years of farming systems research: The profit and practicality of increasing pulse crops at the whole farm level. Tony Swan (CSIRO)
2:10 pm - Panel discussion. Tony Swan (CSIRO), Greg Condon (Grassroots Agronomy) & John Stevenson (Warakirri Cropping)