Projects: Capacity building
Packaging Soil CRC tools to enhance the extension and adoption of improved soil management practices
This page was last updated on 3 March 2026. This project will support four grower groups (including AIR EP) to critically evaluate their current extension practices used to engage farmers and to identify which extension tools developed in Program 1 of the Soil CRC can be combined to improve the adoption of innovation. Many significant…
Soil CRC Agricultural Farm Practices Survey 2024
This page was last updated on 8 December 2025. This project considers the actual and intended practice of a broad base of farmers across Australian farming systems via a mail-based survey (see results of 2024 survey). The 2024 survey is a modified but largely similar survey to one conducted on Eyre Peninsula in 2020 (see…
EP Ag Chats – Connecting Generations of Farmers on Eyre Peninsula
This page was last updated on 17 March 2025. Production of a podcast series of six episodes connecting the younger generation of Eyre Peninsula farmers with the experienced generation of Eyre Peninsula farmers. This would be series 2 of the successful “EP Ag Chats” podcast produced in 2022 as part of the Young Farmer Networking…
Eyre Peninsula internship in applied grains research 2024
This page was last updated on 18 November 2025. This project anually engages a recent graduate to work for 12 months as an intern/trainee in applied grains research, development and extension on Eyre Peninsula. During the 12 months the intern gains skills in trial design, trial management, sampling, statistical analysis, general crop agronomy, extension…
RiskWi$e: National Risk Management Initiative – Action Research Groups Eyre Peninsula
RiskWi$e: the National Risk Management Initiative (NRMI) is a GRDC initiative extending over five years that aims to understand and improve risk-reward outcomes for Australian grain growers through participatory action research (PAR). Explicitly the NRMI aims to: 1. Develop an improved understanding of the risk-reward relationships for important on-farm management practices and decisions 2. Inform…
Enterprise choice and sequence strategies that drive sustainable and profitable southern Australian farming systems
This page was last updated on 30 May 2024. Southern Farming Systems Project Edillilie Site – Lower Eyre Peninsula Farm profitability can be improved by identifying the factors that drive profit and adopting management that optimises returns and mitigates risks. Growers are under mounting pressure to maintain profitability due to constraints such as input costs,…
Eyre Peninsula internship in applied grains research 2023
This page was last updated on 31 October 2024. Summary This project will annually engage a recent graduate to work as an intern/trainee in applied grains research, development and extension, located on Eyre Peninsula. To improve the capacity of grains research, development and extension in the Eyre Peninsula region. To further develop applied research skills…
Building Drought Resilience in Agriculture-Dependent Communities through Mapping Young Farmer Information and Support Networks
This page was last updated on 31 October 2024. This project will map young farmer and AIR EP’s information and support networks, and through two interactive co-design workshops, deliver a young farmer network-strengthening action plan. This project aims to: – Better understand young farmer’s existing networks. – Identify opportunities for building stronger networks between young…
Knowledge-Sharing for Good Soil Stewardship
This page was last updated on 23 May 2023. The project aims to address challenges and opportunities associated with knowledge-sharing efforts directed at improving the uptake of new innovations and best-practice soil management. In order to support knowledge-sharing efforts for grower-groups across four case-study regions, this project will co-develop and test a range of knowledge-sharing…
Sustainable Agriculture program – a three year agriculture extension program
This page was last updated on 14 November 2023. Delivery of the Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board’s Sustainable Agriculture program, funded by the Australian Government’s National Landcare Program Regional Land Partnerships (RLP) initiative, which includes a project work order to deliver the Regenerative Agriculture Program (RAP). Project components: Soil acidification General agricultural support to EP Landscape…
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