Full Name: Demonstrations of residual summer weed control for the Mid North, South AustraliaFunding Body: GRDCDuration: 2024 – 2026Project Lead: UNFSSite Locations: Booleroo, Pt Germain, Balaklava AIM: To identify different residual summer weed control options, in order to reduce the number of summer spray passes required in the Mid North, South Australia. Background: “NGN forums…
Full Name: SAGIT Frost Mitigation in the Upper North Duration: 2024 – 2027 Funding Body: South Australian Grains Industry Trust (SAGIT) Project Lead: Upper North Farming Systems (UNFS) Trial Site Location: Between Jamestown and Appila Background: Frost events have been a significant concern in the Upper North region, resulting in substantial crop losses and economic…
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 Objective: This three-year initiative lets producers decide what they want to learn through a peer-led, landscape-scale, locally driven approach. The network provides one workshop per year and one trial over…
Full Name: Improving climate resilience of the Australian Sheep Industry Duration: 2025 – 2029 Project Lead: Adelaide University Funding Body: South Australian Drought Hub Demonstration Site Locations: Spalding, Caltowie, Quorn and Orroroo Objective: The focus of the research is to increase conception rates and mitigate the impacts of heat stress on ewes and rams. To…
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…
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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 in 2022, 2023 and 2024. The first two demonstration sites are sheep producers located near Caltowie and Gladstone. Sheep were pregnancy scanned and split into single and multiple bearing ewes.…
Full Name: Improved Pasture Management Systems Funding Body: Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) The aim of this project is to improve the pasture management systems implemented in the Upper North of South Australia through demonstrating: Better pasture options that improve the mixed farming enterprise That a better understanding of Food On Offer, including feed budgeting…
Full Name: Demonstration and Extension to close the economic yield gap & maximise farming systems benefits from grain legume production in SA Funding Body: GRDC delivered in partnership with SARDI Aims to annually plan and design trial and extension activities and objectives to assist growers in better managing economic opportunities and risks associated with growing…
