• Australian Summer Grains Conference 2025

    The conference focuses on a range of topics (including pest and disease management) for sorghum, maize, sunflower, soybean and mungbean under the 2025 banner of “Transforming Challenges into Sustainable Farm Profitability”. Find out more.

  • GRDC Grains Research Update – Wellington

    Topics covered at this update include a talk on 'Disease management – regional issues with fungicide resistance, managing septoria, stripe rust blotches and powdery mildew in cereals' by Brad Baxter (NSW DPIRD) 31 July 2025 9:00-2:30 For more information, visit the GRDC website.

  • GRDC Grains Research Update – Dalby

    Topics covered at this Update include: Products under APVMA regulatory review - what, when and why and implications for industry stewardship. Gordon Cumming (GRDC) Fall armyworm update - what's new and strategies for summer 2025/26. Joe Eyre (UQ) 05 August 2025 9:00-3:10 For more information, visit the GRDC website.

  • GRDC Grains Research Update – Spring Ridge

    Topics covered in this Update include Products under APVMA regulatory review - what, when and why and implications for industry stewardship. Gordon Cumming (GRDC) 08 August 2025 9:00-2:40 For more information, visit the GRDC website.

  • GRDC Spray Safe & Save Spray Day – Chinchilla

    Best practice spray application information for growers, spray operators, contractors and advisors, delivered by Craig Day, Spray Safe & Save. Various specialists will address issues such as spray quality; fence line spraying – getting it right; and new sprayer technology. New videos created for this project, for example, Hormesis – the effects of sub-lethal dosing, will also be shown. Plus... Read more »

  • GRDC Spray Safe & Save Spray Day – Millmerran

    Best practice spray application information for growers, spray operators, contractors and advisors, delivered by Craig Day, Spray Safe & Save. Various specialists will address issues such as spray quality; fence line spraying – getting it right; and new sprayer technology. New videos created for this project, for example, Hormesis – the effects of sub-lethal dosing, will also be shown. Plus... Read more »

  • Soilborne Diseases Initiative Field Walk – Toowoomba

    This free field day at Wellcamp Research Facility will cover: Crown rot resistance and tolerance trials Using crop sequences to manage root-lesion nematodes Inspect National Variety Trials: crown rot, root-lesion nematodes and leaf rust New sources of resistance: cereals for crown rot; wheat and chickpea for root-lesion nematodes An update on mungbean root-lesion nematode yield loss trials New ways to... Read more »

  • GRDC Grains Research Update – Clermont

    25 November 2025 8:30 am to 3:00 pm at Clermont Civic Centre Topics include talks on fall armyworm and grain storage. For more information and to register, visit the GRDC website.  

  • GRDC Grains Research Update – Rolleston

    26 November 2025 8:30 am to 3:00 pm at Rolleston Memorial Hall Topics include talks on fall armyworm and grain storage. For more information and to register, visit the GRDC website.

  • GRDC Grains Research Update – Wagga Wagga

    This GRDC update on 18-19 February 2026 includes a disease session: Disease management Cereal disease update and management considerations for 2026. Brad Baxter (NSW DPIRD) Management impacts in SNSW from fungicide resistance to blackleg and sclerotinia. Angela van de Wouw (Uni of Melb) With new decision support tools, can we make better disease management decisions in wheat? Tom Price (FAR... Read more »