Today's 'GRDC in Conversation' podcast interview is with Kate Burke. Kate’s working career has seen her in roles as an agronomist, a commercial manager, author and a cereal chemist.

After a wet 2021, growers across Australia’s northern and southern grain growing regions are again bracing for widespread, heavy rainfalls at harvest this year.

GRDC in Conversation is a limited series of the GRDC Podcast. It features in depth, long-form interviews with growers and other experts in the grains industry.

For the first time in WA, there’s been a confirmed case of glyphosate and paraquat resistance in annual ryegrass. The discovery has prompted University of Western Australia weed researcher, Dr Roberto Busi.

Wheat growers in the northern grain growing region are currently experiencing one of the worst stripe rust epidemics in recent memory.

With split seed resulting in yield penalties higher than 70% in some areas, a new GRDC investment is looking at how growers can manage their handling of lupin seed to ensure better germination of seed in the following seasons.

GRDC has a history of working with different business accelerators to deliver grains focussed, start-up accelerator programs across Australia.

Gravel soils account for 24 per cent of land used for crop production in southern Western Australia, and are also characteristic of major production regions in South Australia and Victoria.

The National Grower Network is a GRDC initiative set up to directly communicate with growers and help progress locally relevant research, development and extension investments.

Grain growers around Australia have a new tool to support informed decision making around machinery purchases.

In Australia, there is a biocontrol option to help tackle flaxleaf fleabane.

Dr Kieren Moffat and his team have been surveying a diverse cross-section of the community to examine areas of uncertainty such as chemical usage and GMO cropping.

Weeds are one of the largest costs to Australian growers - affecting management, yields and input costs. That’s why GRDC is a platinum partner in WeedSmart - an industry led initiative designed to deliver weed control solutions.

Australia’s canola industry continues to grow from strength to strength - despite the presence of blackleg, a common disease that has the potential to cause more than 90 per cent yield loss.

Over the past ten years, GRDC investment in water use efficiency (WUE) research has resulted in significant yield gains and underpinned an evolution in the management of summer fallows and farming sequences across Australia’s southern and western cropping regions.

With water logging across paddocks, growers are at heightened risk of losing nitrogen from denitrification, and it’s an issue GRDC is keen to understand better.

Long coleoptile wheat is getting a lot of grower interest and some new research been delivering some exciting results.

When it comes to maximising the productivity of irrigated crops, research is proving it isn’t as simple as adding water and lots of nitrogen fertiliser.

A 90-day summer chickpea crop could soon be a reality for the north, giving growers a pulse option to plant in February and harvest in June.

What does it take to optimise mungbean yields in Australia’s northern growing region?

Fusarium wilt is significant mungbean disease that can result in up to 80 per cent yield loss.

The National Oat Breeding Program, backed by joint $5.4 million investment from AgriFutures Australia and GRDC, is being propelled into a new era under the leadership of commercial breeding company, InterGrain.

In this podcast, program leader Stuart Nagel explores the history of vetch and its adaptability in cropping and mixed farming systems.

After favourable springs in both 2020 and 2021, slug populations are on the rise and sliding into regions that don’t normally see them.