GRDC Podcast

Darryl Anderson comes live from Showcase Day at the Agtech and Logistics Hub in Toowoomba, Queensland. Darryl speaks with Agtech coordinator, Thomas Hall about the innovation behind some of the most current, up and coming products and services in agriculture and also catches up with participants from this year’s GroundUp, agribusiness accelerator program. 

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Contact:  

Thomas Hall 

Agtech and Logistics Hub 

[email protected] 

More information: 

GRDC Podcast – Agtech and Logistics hub accelerator 

Agtech and Logistics Hub – GroundUp Homepage

Video:

GRDC YouTube – GroundUp Accelerator Program | Innovation Showcase 

Project Code: ACL2205-001SAX

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Today's 'GRDC in Conversation' podcast interview is with Lou Flohr. 

Lou is a mixed cropping and livestock farmer running her enterprise alongside her parents and partner in Lameroo in the Southern Mallee of South Australia. With three young children, family is a huge part of Lou’s life, as is her commitment to ensuring women are represented in the ag sector and support for them encouraged. She is a member of the GRDC Southern Panel and deeply cares about agriculture and the people in it. She is truly inspiring. 

GRDC in Conversation is a limited series of the GRDC Podcast. It features in depth, long-form interviews with growers and other experts in the grains industry. It aims to help growers explore research outcomes and ideas through a different perspective. Interviewer Oli Le Lievre – presenter of Humans of Agriculture – weaves a story not just about the technical innovations but the expertise, history and personal background, influences and motivation of each guest.

GRDC Project Code: HOA2202-001SAX

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Darryl Anderson interviews Professor Mike Bell and Dr David Lester to find out about GRDC’s $11.9 million investment into predicting nitrogen cycles and losses in Australian cropping systems.  

This video looks into the use of the APSIM farming system simulation model which measures the nitrogen cycle; and how this GRDC trial is looking to create a national data set of nitrogen loss across all regions of Australia. 

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Contact:  

Professor Mike Bell 

University of Queensland 

[email protected]

Dr David Lester 

Queensland Department Agriculture and Fisheries 

[email protected] 

More information: 

GRDC Podcast Episode – Predicting Nitrogen cycling and losses in Australian cropping systems

Project Code: UOQ2204-010RTX

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Today's 'GRDC in Conversation' podcast interview is with Harm van Rees.

Harm’s story starts in the Netherlands where he was raised until he was 14. Then his father got an engineering job in Australia, bringing the family with him. When his dad got another job back in the UK, Harm was not ready to leave. He studied science and biochemistry which took him all around the world, and when he got back to Australia, he headed to Victoria’s high country to study cattle grazing, but that’s only the beginning. Harm was a touchstone for no till farming in the 1990s and won a GRDC Recognising and Rewarding Excellence Award in 2020 which saw him seek new insights into attitudes towards, and usage of, glyphosate around the world.

GRDC in Conversation is a limited series of the GRDC Podcast. It features in depth, long-form interviews with growers and other experts in the grains industry. It aims to help growers explore research outcomes and ideas through a different perspective.

Interviewer Oli Le Lievre – presenter of Humans of Agriculture – weaves a story not just about the technical innovations but the expertise, history and personal background, influences and motivation of each guest. 

GRDC Project Code: HOA2202-001SAX

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It’s estimated the Australian grains industry loses more than $350 million a year – due to insects. 

GRDC has invested in the Australian Grains Pest Innovation Program (AGPIP) a joint initiative with the University of Melbourne and Cesar Australia – set up to tackle pest management problems in the grains industry. 

More novel approaches and solutions pest control are needed – Associate Professor Paul Umina from Cesar Australia and the University of Melbourne – provided an update on the ground-breaking research currently underway.

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Contact:

Associate Professor Paul Umina 

Cesar Australia

University of Melbourne

[email protected]

More Information:

GroundCover Article – Authority warns of growing insecticide resistance risk

Cesar Australia – The Australian Grains Pest Innovation Program (AGPIP)

Project Code: UOM1906-002RTX 

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Sally Maguire looks at ammonia volatilisation in depth with Associate Professor Louise Barton from the University of WA. They discuss the extended findings from a 14 month trial study and the implications for crop productivity and nitrogen use efficiency. 

Contact:

Louise Barton

University of WA

Email: [email protected]

More Information:

GroundCover article - Assessing gaseous nitrogen loss from WA crop systems

Project Code: UWA2202-001RTX

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Deborah Bishop catches up with spray application specialist, Bill Campbell at the GRDC Western update, to discuss the awareness and understanding of making good weed spraying decisions. 

Contact:

Bill Campbell Consulting 

[email protected]

More Information:

GRDC Media Release – How to get the most from your spraying program

Project Code: BCC1910-001SAX 

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Deborah Bishop interviews Dr. Elizabeth Petersen from the University of Western Australia about the results from a survey of four hundred West Australian grain producers. They discuss the role of agronomics, the process involved with making fertiliser decisions and strategies implemented to maximise yield potential. 

Contact:

Dr Elizabeth Petersen

Principal Applied Economist, Advanced Choice Economics P/L 

Senior Research Fellow, University of Queensland 

Adjunct Senior Lecturer, University of Western Australia 

email: [email protected] 

Craig Scanlon

Senior Research Scientist, DPIRD 

email: [email protected] 

More Information:

GroundCover Article – Agronomy still top priority for nitrogen fertiliser decisions

Agronomic factors are the dominant influence on nitrogen fertilizer strategies in dryland cropping systems

Project Code: UWA1801-002RTX  

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Sally Maguire interviews experts at the 2023 GRDC Grains research update held in Wagga Wagga. They discuss the latest advice for the season ahead. These experts include:

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Deborah Bishop interviews Richard Bell from Murdoch University (SoilWest Alliance), to discuss widespread Potassium deficiencies in soils and report on the highly successful collaboration between GRDC, DPIRD, SoilsWest, Murdoch University, Summit Fertilisers and CSBP Fertilisers and key research findings for growers and advisors from a long-term field trial in Western Australia, investigating how to maximise profit and efficiency from potassium fertiliser. 

Contact:

Richard Bell, Murdoch University (SoilsWest Alliance) 

[email protected]

Project Code: UMU1801-006RTX

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