Drought Resilient Soils

Full Name: Building farming systems resilience and future proofing the impacts of drought through accelerating the adoption of proven cost-effective and yield responsive soil and fertiliser management practices by farmers across southern Australia Project Lead: Mallee Sustainable Farming Funding Body: Future Drought Fund Extension and Adoption of Drought Resilience Farming…

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De-Risking Dry and Early Seeding

Full Name: De-risking the seeding program: adoption of key management practices for the success of dry and early sown crops Project Lead: Ag Ex Alliance Funding Body: Future Drought Fund Extension and Adoption of Drought Resilience Farming Practices Grants Program Objective:  To help growers make informed decisions on the strategies…

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Growing Carbon Farming Demonstration Pilot

Full Name: Growing Carbon Pilot Project Lead: 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.…

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National Risk Management Initiative

Full Name: National Risk Management Initiative Project Lead: Hart Field Site Group Funding Body: GRDC 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 Field Site Group…

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Farming Systems South

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…

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Canola Profitability

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…

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PDS 2 Lotsa Lambs

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…

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PDS 1 Improved Pasture Management Systems

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…

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Pulse Extension

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…

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Drought Hub

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…

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Septoria Epidemiology

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

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Building Soil Knowledge

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…

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Soil Pathogens

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…

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Regenerating Goyder’s Line

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…

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Weather Station Network

Implementation of 16 weather stations across the Upper North Farming Region of SA Funding Body: SAFECOM Project Duration: 2019 – ongoing.

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