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Oct 4, 2023 | groundcover.grdc.com.au | Peter Bird |Stephen Thompson loss |Gillian Meppem

Entrepreneurs have a golden rule for product development: engage with stakeholders and ensure there is actually a market for your innovation. Research, development and extension follows the same principle. The responsibility of spending levy payer and taxpayer dollars means that re GRDC, we have to be on the ground, engaging and listening to growers – truly understanding limiting factors or opportunities available to enhance their profitability, sustainability and resilience.

Feb 10, 2023 | groundcover.grdc.com.au | Cristina Martinez |Stephen Thompson loss

The burden of choice can rest heavily when making nitrogen fertiliser decisions. How much to apply and when, will it rain, what if it does not and – most importantly – what is the optimal economic rate? Nitrogen is the single-biggest variable cost and is often the biggest driver of the water-limited yield gap in cereals, especially in favourable seasons. Increasingly, the environmental impact of nitrogen losses is under scrutiny around the world.