GRDC CeCC - Final Reports Online

GRDC corporate objective and strategies

Practices objective and strategies

Industry challenges

• Risk management for a changing climate

• Fine tuning farming vs. reinvention

• Farming as a business

• Ongoing production gains vs. efficiency

• Emerging technologies to improve production

• Rebound following drought

Total Factor Productivity, 1953-2003

• How do we get the appropriate information to growers to improve adoption rates?

• To ensure that R, D & E capacity is available within the industry to make best use of those new technologies and information

Challenges for the GRDC

Business Environment

Methods of interaction

• Diversifying access to cutting edge and detailed R, D and E information

• Delivering optimal information flows to industry– Improved engagement/relationships– Ease of use

• Ongoing evaluation of how customers and partners use information

Priorities for the GRDC

Importance

• Greater knowledge management by industry of RDE

• Greater accessibility and transparency of information

• Greater awareness of GRDC outputs

History

• GRDC tendered for this project for 2007-08– GRDC final reports

• Focus on:– collation – evaluation – conversion – consistency

CeCC

• Track record and knowledge of the industry

• Data management– volumes– consistency

• Implementation and Functional Specifications

Final Reports Publisher

• Current Features– Viewing Reports

• Adding Comments– Editing Reports– Analysing & Detecting Issues

• Developing and applying rules

Next steps

• Further rule development

• Investment partners

• Launch

• Ongoing evaluation and management

Questions ?