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 carbon farming method and or practice that has application for the SouthAustralian primary industry sector. Demonstrate how carbon farming activities contribute to revenue and jobs in South Australia. Demonstrate and…
Full Name: National Risk Management Initiative Duration: 2023 – 2028 Project Lead: Hart Field-Site Group Funding Body: Grains Research & Development Corporation (GRDC) Objective/s:The National Risk Management Initiative (NRMI) aims to understand and improve risk-reward outcomes for Australian grain growers through participatory action research (PAR). The NRMI involves grower groups across South Australia including Hart…
Full Name: Enterprise Choice and sequencing for profitability and sustainability Project Duration: 2023 – June 2027 Project Lead: Adelaide University Project Delivery Organisations: Upper North Farming Systems (UNFS) and AgXtra Funding Body: Grains Research & Development Corporation (GRDC) via Adelaide University Objective: This project aims to deliver a better understanding of the water-limited potential of…
For some South Australian growers, the risk of head loss in barley outweighs the potential returns of including it in a rotation.Now, a three-year trial supported by SAGIT has investigated the problem and discovered several avenues with the potential to protect yields.Plant scientist Associate Professor Matt Tucker from the University of Adelaide led a team…
After extensive consultation with its members, Grain Producers SA (GPSA) is standing firm on its position to oppose an alarming reduction to the measurement of the cease harvest number in the Grain Harvesting Code of Practice. Following GPSA intervention to delay the roll-out of the new Fire Behaviour Index (FBI) at short notice prior to the…
A decision to continue current adopted practice under the Grain Harvest Code for the coming harvest has been welcomed by growers as a commonsense approach, according to Grain Producers SA (GPSA).The South Australian Country Fire Service (CFS) had put forward a proposal to change the Grain Harvest Code away from current adopted practice, however a…
A pilot project at a grain producer’s farm on lower Eyre Peninsula is paving the way for future connectivity through a collaboration between Grain Producers SA (GPSA) and AgriFutures Australia.Following a successful wireless network extension project, GPSA has been awarded funding through AgriFutures Australia’s ‘Producer Technology Uptake Program’ for a project delivered by tailored agricultural…
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Over the past six months, 3 UNFS sheep producers were involved in a project to ‘Manage Heat Stress in Sheep’, run through the University of Adelaide’s Davies Livestock Research Centre. The focus of the research is to increase conception rates and mitigate the impacts of heat stress on ewes and rams. The project administered two…
Seeking producer involvement High twin-lamb mortality rates in Merinos remains a persistent economic and animal welfare issue for the sheep meat and wool industry. Would you like to be involved?Our recent intensive and extensive research farm trials have shown promising results feeding a rumen-protected arginine (RP-ARG) to pregnant ewes to increase twin-lamb survival rates to…
