Current Projects

Full Name: SA Drought Hub De-risking the Seeding Program in the Upper North Funding Body: SA Drought Hub Duration: 2026 Project Lead: AgEx Alliance Background:

Full Name: FRRR Junior Education Day: Building Youth Capability and Community Resilience Through Livestock Skills Training Funding Body: Foundation for Rural Regional Renewal (FRRR) Duration:

Full Name: GRDC Managing and Mitigating Dry Saline Soils (Magnesia Patches) in South Australia Funding Body: Grains Research & Development Corporation (GRDC) Duration: 2026 –

Full Name: GRDC NGN Taking advantage of late summer rainfall for lentil and canola production in the Upper North Funding Body: Grains Research & Development

Full Name: GRDC NGN GA Precision Ag Soils Focus Group Funding Body: Grains Research & Development Corporation (GRDC) Duration: 2026 – 2027 Project Lead: UNFS

Full Name: GRDC Innovative management solutions to enhance crop productivity in heavy soils in the Southern Region Funding Body: Grains Research & Development Corporation (GRDC)

Full Name: FDF Stress Testing Regenerative Agricultural Practices (STRAP) (Drought resilience in novel emerging dryland farming practices – A scientific and economic basis) Funding Body:

Full Name: FDF Drought and climate resilient sheep farming systems Funding Body: Future Drought Fund (FDF) Duration: 2025 – 2030 Project Lead: Adelaide University Background:

Full Name: SAGIT Frost Mitigation in the Upper North Duration: 2024 – 2027 Funding Body: South Australian Grains Industry Trust (SAGIT) Project Lead: Upper North

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

Full Name: Enterprise Choice and sequencing for profitability and sustainability Project Duration: 2023 – June 2027 Project Lead: Adelaide University Project Delivery Organisations: Upper North

Full Name: Demonstration and Extension to close the economic yield gap & maximise farming systems benefits from grain legume production in SA Funding Body: GRDC

Implementation of 16 weather stations across the Upper North Farming Region of SA

Funding Body: SAFECOM

Project Duration: 2019 – ongoing.