CRC Salinity

 

FFI Activities

The FFI CRC’s end-users are 72,000 SMEs (small to medium enterprises) – broadacre primary producers who manage 60 million hectares of Australia’s landmass. It will seek to increase the adoption of innovative perennial plant-based farming systems on 7.4 mha of agricultural land, establish new regional industries on 100,000 hectares and under conservative estimates delay or prevent salinity impacts on 1.6 mha in the
crop-livestock and high rainfall zones.  In addition, the CRC will provide decision support tools and technologies for catchment management organisations and regional groups to target and implement land use change at multi-enterprise scale.

 

The powerful collaboration of FFI CRC participants, particularly in agribusiness and agricultural innovation, has allowed identification and targeting of three business opportunities in which Profitable Perennials™ will add value to outcomes:

  • deliver innovative farming systems and new perennial cultivars on-farm that boost productivity and mitigate risk
  • develop enabling technologies and supply-chain enhancements to create new woody crop-based regional industries
  • provide decision support tools and capacity for catchment-scale NRM to mitigate risk and enhance sustainability of enterprise and catchment level land use changes.
 

An Adoption and Commercialisation strategy for the FFI CRC is under development by John Powell Adoption Manager, advised by an Adoption and Commercialisation panel comprising Participant and client representatives.

FFI Projects

The activities of the CRC are predominantly under project management, and contribute to products and outputs that are the responsibility of Programs.  FFI CRC is a three-tiered structure:

  • CRC governance
  • Programs
  • Projects.

The Annual Operating Plan 2007-08 comprises 48 projects; 30 continuing from CRC Salinity and 18 transitional projects covering new activities in 2007-08:

Project Number

Project
Name

Project Leader

Continuing or Transitional

Program 1 - Future Livestock Production

P1 FP01

Improved perennial grasses

S Clark

C

P1 FP02
Chicory management and utilisation
Seeking   additional funding

P1 FP03

Enrich phase 2

D Revell

C

P1 FP04
Oldman saltbush improvement
Seeking   additional funding

P1 FP05

Acid tolerant lucerne rhizobia

A Humphries

C

P1 FP06

EverGraze V: the next phase

A Avery

C

P1 FP07

Productive persistent tropical grasses

G Moore

C

P1 FP08

Lotus commercialisation

G Sandral

C

Program 2 - Future Cropping Systems

P2 FP09

EverCrop and EverCrop Decide

R Llewellyn

C

P2 FP10

Perennial wheat feasibility study

P Larkin

C

P2 FP11

Drought tolerant legumes

C Revell

C

P2 FP12

Salt tolerant cereal

T Colmer

T

Program 3 - New Woody Crop Industries

P3 FP13

Direct seeding woody crops

M Bennell

C

P3 FP 14

Woody crop feasibility study

B Ostendorf

C

P3 FP 15

Industry feasibility assessment

J Bartle

C

P3 FP 16

Woody crop harvester system

R Giles

C

P3 FP 17

Breeding woody crops

R Mazanec

C

P3 FP 18

Water for woody crops

R Harper

C

Program 4 - Farming Saline Landscapes

P4 FP19

Understorey

A Craig

C

P4 FP 20

Enhance (formally HIGHPAK)

H Norman

C

P4 FP 21

The Saltland Knowledge Exchange (SKE)

N Edwards

C

P4 FP 22

SaltCap and SaltDecide

R George

T

Program 5 - Biodiversity and Water

P5 FP 23

Biodiversity in Grazed Landscapes

S McIntyre

Seeking   additional funding

P5 FP 24

Biorisk

R Vogwill

C

P5 FP 25

CATplus

K Lowell

C

P5 FP 26

Weed and genetic risk

M Byrne

C

P5 FP 27

Production perennials for biodiversity

P Smith

C

Program 6 - Economic, Social and Policy Analysis

P6 FP 29

Economic analysis of perennials

B Farquharson

C

P6 FP 30

Adoptability planning tool

R Llewellyn

C

P6 FP 31

INFER

A Ridley

T

Program 7 - Education and Training

P7 FP 33

Postgraduate professional development program

Daryll Richardson

T

P7 46

EverTrain phase 2

Deb Slinger

T

 

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