Research & Extension
Partnering with a range of leading research and extension organisations.
Research & Extension
The capacity of Riverine Plains Inc to undertake research and extension is widely recognised across the Australian grains industry and we partner with a range of leading organisations to carry out locally-relevant, farming systems projects.
Current Research & Extension Project Overview
- Improved drought resilience through optimal management of soils and available water
- Building Livestock drought resilience by discovering stock containment innovations
- Drought Resilience Practices in Mixed Farming Systems
- Activating Financial Markets to Reward Soil Stewardship
- Validation of organic fertiliser sources for crop nutrition in NE Victoria
- Whole-systems redesign of broadacre farming of SE Australia
- Robust Weather Stations Project
- N Banking Project
- Soils Extension Project
- Victoria Drought Resilience Adoption & Innovation Hub
- Southern NSW Drought Resilience Adoption & Innovation Hub
- Best practice liming to address sub-soil acidity in NE Victoria
- Improving soil to optimise water use on farm
- Fodder for the Future
- Cool Soil Initiative
- Hyper Yielding Crops project
- Plant based solutions to improve soil performance through rhizosphere modification – CRC project
- Improving the representation of soil productivity/constraints in existing decision support systems and modelling platforms – CRC project
- Understanding adoptability of techniques and practices for improved soil management – CRC project
- Riverine Plains Irrigated Discussion Group project
Completed Projects
- Future Drought Fund: Enhancing Community Networks
- Increasing the effectiveness of N fixation extension project
- GRDC Pulse Check (Northern) – local extension and communication for profitable pulse production in south east NSW
- Southern Pulse Extension Project – Riverine Plains Inc Pulse Check Discussion Group
- Transforming Regions Development Program
- Quantifying the carbon gains from mixed cropping systems
- Australian Cool Farm Initiative
- From the ground up: Understanding subsoil acidity in the productive plains
- Southern NSW Trials – Optimising crop nutrition in canola.
- Maintaining profitable farming systems with retained stubble in the Riverine Plains region
- Sustainable Agriculture Victoria: Fast-Tracking Innovation Initiative
- Harvest weed seed control for the southern high rainfall zone
- Refining deep soil nitrogen testing to reduce environmental losses
- Seasonal soil moisture and nitrogen availability project
- Linking nutrient movement to soil moisture at weather stations in the NSW Murray and Riverina regions
- Management strategies for improved productivity and reduced nitrous oxide emissions
- Weather stations on farms
- Increased soil carbon by accelerated humus formation from crop residues
- Facilitating increased on farm adoption of broadleaf species in crop sequences to improve grain production and profitability
- Improved water use efficiency (WUE) in no till cropping and stubble retained systems in spatially and temporally variable conditions in the Riverine Plains
- Improving winter cropping systems in the Riverine Plains
- Zonal management in the Riverine Plains
- Using mosaic farming systems to better match land use to land capability
- Northern Victorian Grain & Graze 2
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