Plant establishment project

Project code: 9176134

Project manager: Meg Bell

Project duration: December 2020 to march 2021

About the project

The first few weeks of a crop’s life are crucial. Seedlings are set up in these early growth stages to access water, nutrients and sunlight and compete with weeds, pests and diseases.

A four-year GRDC-funded investment ‘Optimising plant establishment, density and spacings to maximise crop yield and profit in the southern and western regions’ aims to better understand the drivers and improve crop establishment and yield in canola, wheat, faba bean, lentil and lupin to maximise profit.

This project is funded by:

This project is delivered in partnership with:

Birchip Cropping Group

Hart Field Site Group

Project resources:

2020_Plant establishment Bordertown_Case Study

2020_Plant establishment Mundulla_Case Study