All trials to deliver accurate, fast and cost effective high-throughput phenotyping tools for impactful root traits are in the ground now. GRDC North GRDC South GRDC West QLD Alliance for Agriculture & Food Innovation DPIRDWA CSIRO Pioneer Seeds U.S. LongReach Plant Breeders AirBorn Insight Pty Ltd DataFarming AGT Department of Agriculture and Fisheries Queensland

There is growing need for countries to demonstrate the environmental credentials of their grains industries. Options were discussed @ the project inception workshop for "Pathways to Net Zero in Australian and Chinese Agriculture" thanks to #australiachinafoundation QLD Alliance for Agriculture & Food Innovation

When most farmers or academia try relay cropping a cool season grass (wheat, rye, barley...) and a summer broadleaf They are trying to "fit in" the summer crop w/o affecting the yield of the cool season grass crop. I challenge you to instead get out a sheet of paper and figure

Even though it is way to early (and dry) to plant sorghum, check qld-fsr.info/winter-sown-so… for a refresher and to calculate when we are likely to have more than 13C soil temperature

Check out this interesting article by Funabashi et al., "Power-law productivity of highly biodiverse agroecosystems supports land recovery and climate resilience". We still have waivers for top quality submissions at npjSustainable Agriculture nature.com/articles/s4426…

MP and the Holy Grail was today on SBS down in Oz,… is it Xmas yet? Eric Idle

Sorghum on show at the Talwood and Goondi-in-July GRDC Grains Research Updates later this month! Come and join us with loretta serafin UQ Farming Systems Group Ken Haxen and Genevieve Durrington #GRDCUpdates Full details: grdc.com.au/updatedates

Looking forward to that!!! ⁦Eric Idle⁩

Designers design a race car from the ground up, so why not do the same with grain sorghum and match roots to genetics adapted to specific situations? Daniel Rodriguez UQ Farming Systems Group and Ken Haxen discuss what's happening. Paper: bit.ly/3YpLXZy

We have a PhD scholarship to study plastic responses in the growth and function of wheat root systems and implications for yield and yield stability, apply at: study.uq.edu.au/study-options/… UQ News QLD Alliance for Agriculture & Food Innovation

Interesting read on diet transitions and our climete prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/food-a…

Plant cell membranes that flex instead break or burst at low temperatures could be key to reducing late spring frost damage in wheat & is the focus of new research into metabolites, lipids to reduce the impact of spring frosts on wheat yields. 👉 bit.ly/4dxsP00 CSIRO

Great conditions for capturing plant traits at Pampas today.

Prof Xiaobin Jin from Nanjing University, Mr Hui Lu from Jiangsu State Farms Group Corporation, researchers and students @qaafi UQ News discussing sustainability and NetZero agriculture with grain growers. National Foundation for Australia-China Relations (NFACR) 澳中基金会

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