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      Dookie Grains & Mixed Farming Research Field Day

      Field Day
      8 Oct 2025
      9am - 1pm
      Dookie

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      Dookie

      This research is made possible by the significant contributions of growers through both trial cooperation and the support of the GRDC

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      DOOKIE GRAINS & MIXED FARMING RESEARCH FIELD DAY 

       

      University of Melbourne are hosting a field day where you can check out the latest experiments for GRDC grains research investments;

      • Enhanced efficiency N fertilisers – how much, when and why? Dr Arjun Pandey & Dr Jonathan Holland UoM
      • Long coleoptile wheat genetics – how deep can you go and what else do you have to get right? Dr Greg Rebetzke CSIRO
      • Crop canopy trajectories – go hard early or hold back for the spring sprint? Dr James Manson CSIRO
      • Winter wheat vs spring wheat – which is best for yield and harvest index? Dr Juan Wang UoM
      • Novel wheat planting configurations – realising the potential of precision sowing. Frank Mazzone UoM
      • Wheat and barley phenology – classifying cultivars and using the new Crop Flowering Calculator. Dr Corinne Celestina UoM
      • 120 years of wheat breeding at Dookie campus. Prof James Hunt UoM & CSIRO 
      Plus visit the AgriFutures agrivoltaics facility and the DAFF Future Drought Fund Long Term Farming System Experiment
      • Agrivoltaics vineyard - harvesting the sun twice. Dr Sabine Tausz-Posch UoM
      • How does crop and livestock mix affect profit and drought resilience? Prof Michael Tausz UoM


      All are welcome! Attendance is free. Lunch provided. 

      Where: corner of Shepparton-Dookie College Rd and Piggery 
      Lane. Please park on Shepparton-Dookie College Rd.

      For further information contact James Hunt 0428 636 391 

      james.hunt@unimelb.edu.au

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