Full Name: Canola profitability as a break crop in the Upper North? Duration: 2022 – 2025 Funding Body: South Australian Grains Industry Trust (SAGIT) Delivery Organisations: Upper North Farming Systems (UNFS) Objective/s: Enable Upper North SA growers to profitably and reliably use canola as a tactical break crop by generating clear, season-aware guidance on the risk-return…
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: Frost Extension in the Upper North Funding Body: GRDC Aim of the demo site is to provide land managers with confidence in timely decision making around frost impacts. Ability to convert a part-paddock into an alternative hay crop before biomass becomes un-palatable. Tools for working with advisors and with machinery operators…
Full Name: Incorporating digital farming for improved productivity in the Upper North of SA Funding Body: Agrifutures Australia Currently, key barriers to on farm technology adoption in the Upper North of South Australia are confidence and perceived return on investment. There is a gap in the skills and knowledge to access and interpret…
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 South Australia, improving soil structure & function to improve plant health, landscape function & farming system resilience Duration: 2020 – 2023 Funding Body: National Landcare Program: Smart Farm Small Grants Delivery Organisations: Upper North Farming…
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…
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 Landcare Program’s Smart Farms Small Grant and Northern & Yorke Landscape Board Grassroots Grant This project aims to determine and demonstrate best practice methods at three trail sites to: Re-establish…
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 and wool production. Learn from experts on how technologies could assist you to improve productivity, efficiency and profitability in your business. Support sheep producer members to implement and apply technology…
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 crops, particularly after a longer term pasture phase. b) Improved management of stubbles from previous crops and pastures to maximise their value for both productivity and NRM outcomes (including stubble…
