Centre for Crop Science

While the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals have yet to achieve mainstream attention, UQ researchers are working hard to ensure Australia meets its obligations to the world.

Annual ryegrass is becoming increasingly prevalent in the northern cropping region, and many populations already have a high level of resistance to the major Group B and Group A herbicides registered for use in chickpea crops.

Maize growers in Queensland and northern New South Wales could dramatically improve yields and water use efficiency by rethinking their approach to hybrid selection, row configuration and population density.

At the recent Australian Summer Grains Conference Professor David Jordan was honoured by the grains industry with the Sorghum Industry Award for significant contribution. The award recognises a 30 year career in sorghum research that has dramatically impacted on-farm productivity, grown the Australian sorghum research community and been recognised internationally for its scientific excellence.

This monograph, written by two QAAFI researchers and produced by the SIMLESA program, aims to identify the agroecological and socioeconomic patterns that define the diversity of opportunities to sustainably intensify eastern and southern Africa’s food and livelihood systems.

The July 2019 national wheat outlook is predicting well below average yield across many parts of Australia’s wheat belt, according to seasonal climate researchers at the University of Queensland.

Growers and researchers are looking at the viability of planting sorghum early to minimise the crop’s chance of running into yield-depleting heatwaves at flowering.