3 May 2012 SA research helps graziers to manage changing climatic conditions
South Australian research has ensured graziers are better equipped to manage climate variability and climate change over the next 20 years.
27 April 2012 Food security project enhances pig and poultry industries
SARDI is helping to provide security of food production through its participation in Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) food security projects in Papua New Guinea.
24 April 2012 Leading SARDI scientist to address national AUSVEG convention
SARDI Research Chief - Sustainable Systems, Dr Kathy Ophel Keller is a guest speaker at the national AUSVEG Convention to be held in Hobart next month. She is in good company with other speakers including Professor Geoffrey Blainey, Senator John Madigan and Professor Hamish Gow.
19 April 2012 Poultry in Schools competition to spread its wings
South Australia’s successful Poultry in Schools Competition is to be implemented in Victoria with moves afoot for Western Australia to become involved in the program as well.
23 March 2012 SARDI aiding food security
SARDI’s seed collection at its Genetic Resources Centre at Waite Campus has been described as important both domestically and globally by the Secretary of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Dr Shakeel Bhatti.
14 March 2012 SARDI releases Cereal Variety Disease Guide 2012
SARDI has released its Cereal Variety Disease Guide 2012 providing growers and industry with independent disease resistance ratings of all current wheat and barley varieties.
9 March 2012 Latest Climate Management Solutions
Primary producers on the Eyre Peninsula will hear about ways to maintain productivity and maximise resilience in a changing climate when results from research funded by the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) are discussed at a field day this month.
16 February 2012 Primary Industries research boost for SA
Animal welfare science, sustainable fisheries research and molecular diagnostics in South Australia have been boosted with three new high level appointments for the South Australian Research and Development Institute.
9 February 2012 Farmers invited to hear latest science at Willalooka
Primary producers in the Tatiara region will be among the first to hear the results of three years of climate research at a free breakfast meeting in Willalooka next month.
9 February 2012 Farmers to hear latest climate solutions at Roseworthy
Primary producers and members of the Crop Science Society (CSS) of South Australia will be among the first to hear the results of three years climate research at a special dinner meeting in at Roseworthy Agricultural College next month.
6 February 2012 Message service gives pea growers green light to avoid blackspot
Technology is coming to the aid of South Australian field pea growers looking to avoid blackspot infection as they sow their crops this coming season.
19 January 2012 'Window to the Future' for Rocklobster industry
Window to the future for Rocklobster industry
13 January 2012 Precision rain for precision irrigation
Scientists Rob Stevens and Tim Pitt from the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) are investigating ways of making better use of rainfall to flush salt from soils.
3 January 2012 Chris aims to simplify carbon tax for farmers
SARDI research scientist Chris Lawson will use his selection in the GrainGrowers Future Leaders Program to explore the effects of the carbon tax on farm businesses.
3 January 2012 Tasting wines grown under 2050 temperature
SARDI researchers have opened a window into the future for the Barossa Valley wine industry.