SAGIT

Huge areas of cropping land in SA are planted to lentils annually, however, issues such as weed control, herbicide damage, establishment, soil toxicity, frost, moisture stress, harvestability have slowed their uptake in low rainfall and sandy soil environments.

In this podcast episode, Dr Larn McMurray from Global Grain Genetics talks about his SAGIT funded research which has led to the development of germplasm with improved traits, and now, the release of two new varieties suited to these difficult areas.

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On average, SAGIT invests $2 million a year in supporting research crucial to advancing South Australia’s $4.6 billion grain industry.

These projects deliver real improvements in countless areas of grain growing, farming systems, soil management, harvesting, storage, processing and marketing, and they also provide technical information to growers.

The risk of head-loss in barley crops is often enough of a deterrent for growers not to plant it. Finding a solution to this problem has been the focus of work undertaken by Associate Professor Matthew Tucker from the University of Adelaide.

In this podcast episode, Matthew talks about a couple of SAGIT-funded projects exploring a combination of agronomy, genetics and engineering principles to try and reduce the yield losses associated with head-loss.

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On average, SAGIT invests $2 million a year in supporting research crucial to advancing South Australia’s $4.6 billion grain industry.

These projects deliver real improvements in countless areas of grain growing, farming systems, soil management, harvesting, storage, processing and marketing, and they also provide technical information to growers.

Agrilink agronomic consultant Mick Faulkner talks about the Frost Learning Centre which Mick manages on behalf of the Mid North High Rainfall Zone Group.

The centre for farmers, advisers and researchers is a SAGIT and Grains Research and Development Corporation co-funded project with input from the Mid North High Rainfall Zone Group.

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On average, SAGIT invests $2 million a year in supporting research crucial to advancing South Australia’s $4.6 billion grain industry.

These projects deliver real improvements in countless areas of grain growing, farming systems, soil management, harvesting, storage, processing and marketing, and they also provide technical information to growers.

Agronomic consultant Sam Trengove, of Trengove Consulting, talks about his SAGIT-funded work into increasing lentil productivity here in South Australia. Lentil production often underperforms on the sandy soils of the Yorke Peninsula, so the first project Sam ran sought to understand the causes of low performance and to identify cost-effective methods to boost productivity. 

SAGIT then funded a two-year project looking at increasing the reliability of lentil production on sandy soils. Based on the results of the earlier project, this project included field experiments on herbicide effects including herbicide tolerant lines, variety evaluation, nutrition (especially molybdenum) and liming the previous year.

A new two-year project is now specifically focused on improving crop safety and broadleaf weed control with herbicides in lentil.

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On average, SAGIT invests $2 million a year in supporting research crucial to advancing South Australia’s $4.6 billion grain industry.

These projects deliver real improvements in countless areas of grain growing, farming systems, soil management, harvesting, storage, processing and marketing, and they also provide technical information to growers.

In this podcast episode, Stuart Nagel, who leads the National Vetch Breeding Program (an investment by the Grains Research and Development Corporation and the South Australian Research and Development Institute, a division of the SA Department of Primary Industries and Regions), talks about a SAGIT-funded project he has led on common vetch as a break crop for marginal cropping systems.

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On average, SAGIT invests $2 million a year in supporting research crucial to advancing South Australia’s $4.6 billion grain industry.

These projects deliver real improvements in countless areas of grain growing, farming systems, soil management, harvesting, storage, processing and marketing, and they also provide technical information to growers.