The National Frost Initiative addresses:
- genetics – aiming to rank current wheat and barley varieties for frost susceptibility and identify more frost-tolerant wheat and barley germplasm
- management – investigating if there are management practices or preventive products that growers could implement to reduce the impact of frost
- environmental prediction – focusing on predicting the impact of frost events on crop yields and mapping frost events at the farm scale to enable better risk management.
DPIRD research officer Dr Ben Biddulph leads the management program, which comprises the following projects:
- Advancing profitable farming systems – frost risk management
- Determining yield under frost – one degree at a time
- Screening of frost tolerance in cereals
Frost research team
Acknowledgments - collaborators and partners
- GRDC
- University of Adelaide
- NSW Department of Primary Industries
- Murdoch University
- University of Western Australia
- Living Farm
- ConsultAg
- Facey Group
- Birchip Cropping Group
- Foundation for Arable Research
- Kalyx