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Graincast - a serving of yield in the palm of your hand

Need a quick grain yield forecast, from the middle of your paddock?

Yeah, we can help you with that.

[Music plays and camera pans over a crop and text appears: Farmers told us that they can’t access the data they really want about their crops]

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[Image changes to show a mobile phone screen with the title Graincast on it and text appears: So we built Graincast, an app that, for the first time, let’s Australia’s grain growers forecast their grain yield from individual paddocks and across the whole farm]

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[Image changes to show a mobile phone with the heading: Welcome to Graincast and text appears: Graincast helps growers with their crop decision-making instincts]

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Our research areas

Cotton

With 100 per cent of Australian cotton grown from CSIRO varieties, we're adding value at all levels of the Australian cotton industry, including molecular biology, plant breeding, crop management and post-harvest processing.

Grains

For over 60 years we’ve been supporting Australia’s grain industry to improve yields, quality and management, and to combat disease.

Oil crops

We're developing novel plant-based oils to provide more efficient and sustainable oils for industrial and nutritional uses.

Horticulture

We're delivering safe, nutritious and novel horticulture ingredients and products from farm to fork to underpin Australia's $11 billion horticulture industry.

Pathogens, pests & weeds

Plants are under threat from pathogens, pests and weeds that impact their health and growth. Our work is investigating methods to protect our native plants and agricultural crops from these threats.

Farming systems

We're working with farmers to develop new tools and management practices to increase profitability and productivity, reduce resource use and maintain ecosystem health.

Sugarcane

Our efforts are focused on improving sugar yields and sustainability to help support Australia's $1.5 billion sugar industry.

Breeding and phenomics

Breeding and phenomics tools offer crop breeders non-destructive and high throughput methods to quantify crop performance in response to inputs and the environment and develop new varieties of crops more quickly than ever before.

Boorowa

BARS is a state-of-the-art agricultural research facility near the town of Boorowa in southern New South Wales.

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