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It keeps you up-to-date with our research, and how our research findings are being applied in agriculture and natural resource management.

CLIMAG 22:

• Farmers and scientists move forward with knowledge
• Farmers love the ‘show and tell’ nature of annual workshops
• Climate Kelpie – ask an expert
• Adapting primary industries to changing climates – the big picture
• Project updates
• Weather forecasting: it’s complex
• Growers remain cool in the face of extreme heat
• Mobile applications increasingly enriching farmers’ timely decisions
• What does Australia’s carbon tax mean for agriculture?

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Understanding the specific effects of temperature change on crops is a necessary step in providing growers with decision-making tools to manage and adapt to climate change.

Peter Deuter from Agriscience Queensland has been researching the effects of temperature change on 8 crops:

• Apple
• Avocado
• Banana
• Capsicum
• Lettuce
• Macadamia
• Pineapple
• Tomato

Starting with lettuce, over the coming month we will be publishing his case studies which include:

• crop production data – key varieties, optimum growing conditions, and seasonality
• the current level of knowledge on temperature thresholds
• projected regional temperature changes
• discussion on how projected temperature increases will affect the crop
• discussion on the capacity for growers to adapt through management practices

Congratulations to our 34 farmers and all the scientists and researchers who together have made this wonderful achievement possible!

It keeps you up-to-date with our research, and how our research findings are being applied in agriculture and natural resource management.

CLIMAG 21:

• Friend or foe: flooded farmer still saves water for two years in advance
• Win-win: how drought conditions can improve pastures and reduce salinity
• The long view: using climate outlooks to manage a mixed enterprise
• Do you want to learn about your local climate?
• Project updates
• Predicting ‘flooding rains’ and cyclones
• Australian farmers need better forecasts
• Outstanding warning performance for severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi
• Research that can turn prediction into profit
• From the farm to plant and climate science
• Climate forecasting—how good will it get?
• What should rainfall look like—on a weather map?

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It keeps you up-to-date with our research, and how our research findings are being applied in agriculture and natural resource management.

CLIMAG 20:

• Climate Champion Program update: workshops, media and awards
• What’s new on Climate Kelpie?
• An award-winning partnership: with your cows, the landscape and the community
• Project updates
• Managing climate risk, one region at a time
• Climate-analyser app for Australia’s next-generation farmers
• POAMA: the dynamism of dynamical modelling
• Future climate science is about managing the variability now

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For further information contact Carmel Anderson:

Phone 02 6166 4500

c.anderson@grdc.com.au