Past Projects

Full Name: Predator Control and Productivity Network Funding Body: Australian Government, MLA, PIRSA & Livestock SA Duration: 2024-2026 Project Lead: UNFS Contact: Rachel Trengove, UNFS

Full Name: Improving climate resilience of the Australian Sheep Industry Duration: 2025 – 2029 Project Lead: Adelaide University Funding Body: South Australian Drought Hub Demonstration

Full Name: Building farming systems resilience and future proofing the impacts of drought through accelerating the adoption of proven cost-effective and yield responsive soil and

Full Name: De-risking the seeding program: adoption of key management practices for the success of dry and early sown crops Duration: 2024-2025 Project Lead: Ag

Full Name: Growing Carbon Pilot Duration: 2023-2024 Project Lead: Upper North Farming Systems (UNFS) Funding Body: PIRSA The growing carbon pilot project aims to: Demonstrate a

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Full Name: Canola profitability as a break crop in the Upper North? Duration: 2022 – 2025 Funding Body: South Australian Grains Industry Trust (SAGIT) Delivery

Full Name: Lotsa Lambs: Improving Reproduction Success Funding Body: Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) UNFS is running a Producer Demonstration Site project for three years

Full Name: Frost Extension in the Upper North   Funding Body: GRDC   Aim of the demo site is to provide land managers with confidence

Full Name: Incorporating digital farming for improved productivity in the Upper North of SA   Funding Body: Agrifutures Australia   Currently, key barriers to on

Funding Body: GRDC delivered in partnership with SARDI Full Name: Epidemiology of Septoria Tritici Blotch in the low and medium rainfall zones of the Southern

Full Name: Building soil knowledge & capacity to implement change in the farmers of the Upper North Agricultural zone of South Australia, improving soil structure

Full Name: Soil pathogen identification and management strategies for winter cereals Funding Body: GRDC delivered in partnership with SARDI A steady increase in Crown Rot

Full Name: Regenerating Goyder’s Line – Re-establishing productive and profitable grasslands and scrublands in highly degraded, once cropped landscapes of Goyder’s Line. Funding Body:  National

The Sheep Technology Group aims to: Explore and share experiences and knowledge on ways that precision livestock management technologies can be used in red meat

Key elements of the project outcomes will include; a.) Reduction in the presowing cultivation (both number of passes and intensity of disturbance) used to establish

The GRDC Low Rainfall Crop Sequencing project investigated how different breakcrop options affect low rainfall farming systems over 4 years. As part of this project

Funding Body: SAGIT Project Duration: 2016

This project will evaluate application of controlled traffic farming in the low rainfall zone. Benefits vs cost of adopting practice will be assessed. Funding Body:

Identify research outcomes, economic feasibility, and the suitability of implementation of reducing reliance on fertilizer and herbicides at the regional level. Funding Body: GRDC Central

The upskilling program will involve a women only series of workshops, delivered largely by women, to create a positive learning environment where women can ask

The project will encourage the adoption of pasture production zoning as a tool for identifying areas of poor crop production and changing management of these

Vetch agronomy trials on challenging soils in the Broughton region Funding Body: UNFS Project Duration: 2019 – 2020 Vetch pre emergent trial Vetch variety trial

Increasing the knowledge and understanding of micronutrient deficiency in the UN Funding Body: SAGIT Project Duration: 2017 – 2020 Micronutrient Trial – Wheat @ Baroota

]Funding Body: GRDC, supported DAWR, MLA and AWI Project Duration: 2019 – 2022   The Dryland Legume Pasture Species project has been driven by significant

Full Name: Upper North Barley Time of Sowing Trial; Frost / Heat Stress Effects   Funding Body: SAGIT   The aim of this trial is

Cereal Alternatives to oats for hay production in UNFrost/Heat stress effects Funding Body: BALCO Project Duration: 2019 – 2022  

Full Name: Barley Grass Management Options Funding Body: Grains Research & Development Corporation (GRDC) Background Site was planted to Spartacus barley in 2018. Site was

Full Name: Warm and cool season mixed cover cropping for sustainable farming systems in South Eastern Australia. Funding Body: National Landcare Program Smart Farming Programs

Southern Pulse Extension Project Funding Body: GRDC Project Duration: 2017 – 2020 Pulse Check Case Study Focus 2021: Frost, Heat, Drought  

Funding Body: Grain Growers Project Duration: 2016

This project will increase no-till practice adoption rates by engaging 60 farmers to visit a demonstration site in their district to inspect and discuss the

The project aims to trial and demonstrate on farm practices to increase sequestration of carbon in soil by 2015 in the Upper North and Eyre

To communicate to growers and agribusiness what, when, how and why N2O emissions impact on farming systems: ‐ to increase farmer knowledge about N2O emissions

The objectives of this project were, • To evaluate the suitability of “spot spray” technology to control weeds on farming land in the Upper North

Development and publication of information on integrating fodders shrubs into low rainfall systems. Forage Shrubs in Low Rainfall Farming Systems Factsheet Funding Body: DAFF Project

To improve participants understanding of their farming business in terms of profitability and risk to enable improved decision making for more resilient farm businesses. Results

To identify appropriate management techniques for the control of ‘difficult to kill’ Onion Weeds, such that crop yields are maximised whilst maintaining crop and pasture