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Some chickpeas feeling the goodness of #NDrip others don’t… in detailed water stress phenology interactions research txs to #NaPA & ⁦GRDC North⁩

Ouyen field day in the Victorian mallee. Checking out National Pulse physiology trials. Listening to Audrey Delahunty, Jason Brand and Michael Moodie

#NaPA team checking on the chickpeas trial at Gatton thanks to ⁦GRDC North⁩ ⁦CSIRO⁩ ⁦QLD Alliance for Agriculture & Food Innovation⁩ and many others

Tony Swan discussing Legumes, N legacies, Sequences, profit and Risk at the CSIRO GRDC North farming systems field day at Greenethorpe. The weather gods were kind! Great morning with Advisers and growers on all things systems.

Top effort from the @DAFQld and CSIRO team today - 176 quadrat cuts for wheat crop biomass at Pampas farming systems experiment #FarmingSystemsNorth. Some notable differences due to crop history and N strategy.

Learn more about GRDC-funded research into extracting more profit from your farming systems. John Kirkegaard discusses conversion of rainfall to profit across a 3-year crop sequence. more info bit.ly/3IHodrK CSIRO @NSWDPI_AGRONOMY Tony Swan Mathew Dunn GRDC North

New postdoctoral position to investigate Frost and Heat in Pulses jobs.csiro.au/s/D8NCzk. Apply now! GRDC CSIRO #Phenotyping #FutureCrops

New publication out on How to Build a Crop Model (doi: 10.1007/s13593-022-00854-9). Open access and an easy read. Share with early career scientists interested or engaged in building crop models for a cropping system framework. Lindsay Bell Neil Huth Jeremy Whish #apsim

Congratulations to Greg Rebetzke 2023 GRDC Seed of Light Award recipient - a recognition to his dedication and research to benefit the gain growers CSIRO #GRDCUpdates 🥳

Wagga. The first early sown varieties are in the ground for the 6th season of GRDC-funded farming systems research trial on converting rainfall into profit over a crop sequence. more info bit.ly/3IHodrK Mathew Dunn @NSWDPI_AGRONOMY CSIRO John Kirkegaard Tony Swan

Out of office #Uzbekistan

Last week, I joined CSIRO delegates Dr. John Kirkegaard John Kirkegaard & Dr. Jeremy Whish at Copenhagen University's Taastrup campus Department of Plant & Environmental Sciences. Grateful for the enlightening exchange on crop production. Thanks to Prof. Kristian T-Kristensen, Prof. Dorte Bodin Dresbøll, and their teams!

Dr Jeremy Whish discussing the design and operations of the large patchCROP experiment at ZALF in Germany with Dr Moritz Reckling and Dr Kathrin Grahmann. Large field plots of different systems arranged across the landscape according to soil type and compared with nearby fields.

Field day at the 100-year long term experiment at Berlin-dahlem in Germany - here we listen to how climate variability has affected the performance of crops and sequences

Now that is a neat soil pit. Checking out the 100 yr system trial Berlin-Dahlem

Berlin- Dahlem long-term trial centenary. AgroJAK getting some tips from Wolfgang Kohn who’s been part of the systems trial for 56 years. Quote” it takes 20-30 years to see key differences”. Luckily we have modelling #APSIM, GRDC

Jeremy Whish CSIRO shows soil sampling gear from 1850s and soil/grain samples from longest running field trials in the world (Rothamsted 180yrs) on manure/fertiliser effects on crop production. Also Sir R Fishers calculator - the inventor of ANOVA, father of modern statistics.

Great choice of T-shirt by the South African delegates presenting some nice work from the southern hemisphere on conservation Ag.

Here’s what wheat looks like after 180 years in a row of either no manure or fertiliser (bottom L) or 14 and 35 t/ha of farmyard manure every year (top L). Agronomist Paul Poulton explains the trial while Jeremy Whish CSIRO contemplates how he would manage that much data.

The cold always bothered me anyway. ❄️ Late spring frosts are becoming more frequent and damaging due to climate change. Here's how our research with GRDC is improving frost tolerance in wheat: csiro.au/en/news/All/Ar…