Five seminars are planned for June where winners of the GRDC’s HYC inaugural awards will be announced.
There will be two awards per region — overall highest wheat yield and highest wheat yield based on per cent of yield potential.
To enable a ‘community’ approach to the HYC concept, the HYC awards program was established in 2020 to enable growers to benchmark the agronomic performance of their crops compared to a regional standard.
More than 50 crops were entered into the 2020 wheat HYC awards spanning from the Albany Port zone through to Tasmania.
FAR Australia managing director and HYC project lead Nick Poole will co-present with research director Dr Kenton Porker and HYC field research officers on findings from the 2020 research trials.
“We are extremely excited to hear of the HYC’s inaugural award winners and the agronomic practices they adopted to reach these goals,” Mr Poole said.
“Our year one trial results will not only focus on the yields achieved, but will also touch on climate statistics and what these meant for each crop, what management strategies worked best for disease management, the impact of artificial N and the interaction between genotype, environment and management (GEM) and how these interactions affected the phenology, biomass, final grain yields and overall profit margins.
“We hope that we can learn from these findings and as a result build on our yield potentials and margins in the years to come.”
An event will be held in Rutherglen on Tuesday, June 8, with five others held across the state and country in the days following.
For more information, visit: faraustralia.com.au
