3727 research projects
Research project
Women in wine update study
Wine Australia
The Australian grape and wine sector is consistently well within the top 10 largest producers in the world. Contribution of the sector to the Australian economy is substantial, with an estimated $45.5 billion in gross output, while supporting over 163,000 direct and indirect full and part-time jobs. Although positive contributions...
8 Jan 2024 - 31 Mar 2024
South Australia, Australia
Research project
Repurposing preservative-treated timber and engineered wood products at end-of-life: a circular approach
Wine Australia
Vineyard posts are widely used across Australia because of their excellent material properties and low cost. These posts are typically low durability pine species that must be preservative treated to provide the expected service life. Nearly all vineyard posts are treated with chromated copper arsenate (CCA), although some are also...
6 Feb 2024 - 12 Jun 2027
South Australia, Australia
Research project
Water productivity benchmarking in the Australian Cotton Industry
Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)
This project will benchmark the water productivity of irrigated and dryland cotton annually, by maximising the value of currently under-utilized industry data, monitoring and record keeping of water use, including the industry’s best practice certification program my BMP, and integration with on-farm sensor and telemetry networks. We will work with...
1 Jul 2022 - 30 Jun 2025
New South Wales, Australia
Research project
Optimising irrigation and nutrition management for bankless systems
Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)
The overall project objective is to develop integrated irrigation and N technology sensing and automated control technologies so that best practise guideline principles can be developed and refined for optimising water and N inputs in different designs of bankless surface irrigation layouts. Reducing upfront costs and increasing flexibility of implementation...
1 Jul 2022 - 30 Jun 2025
New South Wales, Australia
Research project
Standardisation of analysis of smoke-exposed grapes and wine using gas chromatography (acid hydrolysis approach) across multiple Winechek laboratories in Australia
Wine Australia
The bushfires of 2020 highlighted a number of deficiencies in the measurement of risk of smoke damage to grapes and wine in Australia. Only two commercial laboratories were able to conduct the analysis and the backlog of samples sometimes forced grapegrowers to make decisions before receiving results. There is confusion...
1 May 2024 - 12 Jul 2026
South Australia, Australia
Research project
Lower alcohol wine production through application of sugar reduction technology to grape juice
Wine Australia
This project is evaluating the technical and commercial feasibility of Evolve Food's patented technology for producing reduced alcohol wine. This involves fermentative or enzymatic reduction of fermentable sugar in grape juice or must prior to alcoholic fermentation. This initiative aligns with growing consumer health trends and a focus on environmental...
1 Apr 2024 - 31 Dec 2025
South Australia, Australia
Research project
Validation of soil testing guidelines and critical values for nutrients for the management of modern cotton cultivars
Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)
Australian cotton yields are three times the world’s average. This success is partly due to ensuring high levels of soil fertility for maximum crop growth. An important strategy has been the use of critical soil test values to assess the likelihood of a cotton response to the addition of fertiliser....
1 Jul 2022 - 30 Jun 2025
New South Wales, Australia
Research project
Limited water decision support
Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)
Water is the limiting factor in Australian cotton systems. Uncertain water availability has increased interest in partial irrigation & dryland production systems to make the most of available irrigation water or rainfall. Under dryland systems it is essential to employ practices that maximise infiltration & storage of rainfall in the...
1 Jul 2021 - 30 Jun 2024
New South Wales, Australia
Research project
POST DOC: Sensing soil moisture collaboration.
Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)
This is proposed as a Post-Doc project. This post-doc project will continue the technology development of a novel, low-cost system that determines crop evapotranspiration (ETc) from its canopy temperature which I developed during my PhD. (The PhD was completed and examined in 2021). The so-called Canopy Temperature EvapoTranspiration (CTET) system...
1 Jul 2022 - 30 Jun 2025
New South Wales, Australia
Research project
Supporting a sustainable northern Australia cotton, grain & cattle system (Northern program)
Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)
This project aims to: 1. Support sustainable diversification of ORIA cropping system. 2. Address the fundamentals of cropping systems that deliver sustainable growth o agriculture in the Northern Territory. 3. Support the development of North Queensland Cotton Grains and Cattle farming systems 4. Enhance extension capacity to sustain growth of...
1 Jul 2022 - 30 Jun 2025
New South Wales, Australia