Full Name: Enterprise Choice and sequencing for profitability and sustainability Project Lead: The University of Adelaide Funding Body: GRDC This project aims to deliver a better understanding of the water-limited potential of farming systems and what drives profitability and sustainability across the Southern Growing Regions. There are 9 sites across South Australia and Victoria. It…
Full Name: Canola Profitability in the Upper North Funding Body: SAGIT This trial aims to inform grower decision making by exploring of new technology in Canola which could see it become a more reliable and viable break crop option in the Upper North Agricultural Zone (UN). A key factor of this trial is improving the…
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…
Full Name: SA Drought Resilience and Innovation Hub Funding Body: Future Drought Fund Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hubs Program Delivered in partnership with University of Adelaide and SARDI Ag Tech Toolbox Full Name: Utilising satellite imagery in the growing season to inform adaptive management AIM: Development of a workshop and fact sheet that improve…
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 region to inform IDM strategies. Contact: Tara Garrard, 0459 899 321
Full Name: Building soil knowledge & capacity to implement change in the farmers of the Upper North Agricultural zone of SA, improving soil structure & function to improve plant health, landscape function & farming system resilience. Funding Body: National Landcare Program: Smart Farm Small Grants This project aims to upskill the farmers of…
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 damage has been observed (primarily in Wheat) in the past 20 years, both on the property of this demo and now more broadly across the district. During this time, cereal…
