Making the Tough Calls in 2025: Cropping Decisions in a Dry Start Year

June 10, 2025

Prepared by Andrew Ware, EPAG Research This season’s shaping up as one of the toughest in recent memory in southern Australia. For many growers, the hard part isn’t sowing—it’s deciding what not to sow. With one of the driest starts on record and stored soil moisture sitting near zero, the 2025 season is already demanding careful […]

The nitrogen bank for higher yields and lower emissions

May 20, 2025

Analysis of the impact of nitrogen decision-making systems indicates that yield does not need to be sacrificed to achieve environmental gains

Fast Graphs for “Slow Thinking”

September 10, 2024

Supporting a more deliberate and logical approach to decision making

Farm Decision Making and Risk: the interaction of personality, farm business, and risk to make more informed decisions

September 6, 2024

At the core of farm management is decision making and choosing a path that provides a farming business with acceptable reward for acceptable effort at an acceptable amount of risk. This 2020 GRDC publication is an important resource for growers, industry and our RiskWi$e approach.

An emerging ‘Snapshot’ of risky decisions in grain systems

November 10, 2023

Baseline survey across RiskWi$e regions reveals those decisions that farmers find most difficult.