The Optimising Crop Establishment project is a national initiative led by the Grower Group Alliance (GGA) and supported by the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC). The project aims to improve crop establishment through practical demonstrations, grower workshops and regionally relevant extension activities.

This project supports the development and adoption of standardised approaches for paddock-scale on-farm experimentation in NSW, improving the value, consistency, and usability of results for farmers and advisors.

RiskWi$e is a national five-year, $30 million GRDC initiative helping grain growers better understand and manage production and financial risks by improving their knowledge of risk–reward trade-offs in key on-farm decisions.

Through participatory action research across Australia, the program engages growers directly in analysing nitrogen, sowing, agronomic, financial and natural resource decisions so they can make more confident, resilient and profitable choices in an increasingly unpredictable climate.

This project is improving whole-farm profitability in southern NSW by identifying the agronomic factors that drive returns and testing how strategic and tactical decisions—such as crop choice, sowing time and nitrogen management—perform across different farming systems.