😎The man, the myth (??), the legend!!! A HUGE CONGRATS to Simphy who was awarded the 2025 Brownhill Cup at the annual AgQuip Grower Forum 2025! Well deserved by someone who can complex disease scenarios into farm ready solutions….normally with a few jokes thrown in!

WHAT A WEEK! 💡 We’ve been gathering your ideas at our #NGN sessions in #Marrar, #Cootamundra & #Lockhart - plus checking out some incredible research sites along the way. Your insights from these sessions will help inform future GRDC RD&E investments! Local Land Services | NSW Agronomy

Say hello to our newest GRDC North regional panellists (starting Sept 1)! 👋 Welcome to crop science expert Felicity Harris, grower Mark Swift & grower + Lawson Grains' Nick Ennis Story: groundcover.grdc.com.au/grdc/announcem…

Hi everyone. Regular brain scans and various treatments are an ongoing part of life for me. I’m amazed and very thankful I’m still going so well. Thankyou to my wonderful medical team, family, friends and everyone for your support, friendliness and kindness. I really appreciate

Northern farming systems project now on socials! Give it a follow

🌿Ascochyta found in chickpeas last week in the central west. 🧐....get out & have a look & make sure your fungicide regime is sound prior to the next rainfall. Need more info? "NSW DPIRD's Managing diseases of chickpea 2025" dpi.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/… GRDC North #chickpeas

Join us at the joint NSW Agronomy CSIRO Charles Sturt University Farming systems Field Day Thursday 18th September! Hear the latest from Mathew Dunn John Kirkegaard plus first look at new mixed farming long term trial!

Unfortunately the survival rates for brain cancer essentially have not improved in 20 years. For the brain cancer subtype I have, glioblastoma IDH wild type, 50% survival rate is still about six months and it is essentially incurable. Over the past 15 years there have been vast

Spring Field Day at Merredin Tues 16 Sep with DPIRD Broadacre - WA Grains & Livestock and MADFIG Program below👇 Register at this link trybooking.com/events/landing…

65klm walk to school today. Our daughters are walking for ⁦⁦Camp Quality SO⁩ to raise funds for kids with cancer. They should get to school by 9am tomorrow if they walk well into the night. Good luck Chloe & Clare 🥳, you’re amazing 😃

forms.office.com/r/q0pYJrkPKL Link above to quick (<5 min) multichoice survey on Fusarium crown rot (FCR) to determine recent changes in understanding and management. Clicking on link and doing survey would be greatly appreciated. Closes Friday 26th September. Thanks heaps! GRDC North

🗓️GRDC Improving N Fixation in pulses workshop Tickets, Thu 02/10/2025 at 2:00 pm | Eventbrite Lots of cool stuff to be discussed, including: 🦠Maximising inoculation 🫘Nodulation ☘️Nitrogen fixation NSW Agronomy #rhizobia #inoculation #nitrogen #pulses

Free nitrogen fixation workshop this Thursday (2nd Oct) at Breeza on the Liverpool Plains.

🎧PODCAST: disease update with Brad, Simphy & Kurt. ⛅️Weather impact on disease. 🚜What could be an issue from now till harvest. 🌾Bacterial blight in oats. 🟡Sclerotinia . LINK👇 on.soundcloud.com/hKrKBLA9L9svTR… GRDC North GRDC

**Parkes canola field walk - 9 October** Hope to see you next week to inspect the Canola NVT trial site with Kathi Hertel and to discuss the latest GRDC canola establishment research results. NSW Agronomy CSIRO

🌾 Have your say! GRDC is inviting growers & industry to help uncover the next game-changer in grains research. #NewFrontiers #Grainstorming - Wagga Wagga 📅 17 October 📍Mercure Hotel, 1 Morgan St, Wagga Wagga 🕘 9:30am – 3:30pm 🔗 Register: bit.ly/46KkOmt Help shape

NSW Gov plant pathologists are tackling a fungal threat to #barley — Ramularia leaf spot (RLS). GRDC backs work to understand its epidemiology, with Ben Ovenden (NSW Agriculture) running field trials on infected crops for 2 years. NSW DPIRD story 👉 bit.ly/4o9snu1

Every time you spray, are you making your fungicides work harder next season? 💭 Steven Simpfendorfer from NSW Agriculture shares how #FungicideResistance is building and why integrated management is key to keeping your chemistry effective. 🎥 Watch: bit.ly/4nYBq16

Our traps detected H. armigera in central and southern NSW, but some cross-catch is possible. Correct ID is vital to guide control. H. armigera shows resistance, while H. punctigera is more susceptible to insecticides. GRDC NSW Agronomy Cesar Australia PestFactsSA

If you were looking for advice on which cereal, canola or pulse variety to grow when, where, why and how in Western Australia, check out the latest DPIRD Broadacre - WA Grains & Livestock crop sowing guide for 2026 library.dpird.wa.gov.au/bulletins/363/ (hard copies can also be requested)