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Post Doc positions available in our Centre working on nationally funded grants We have a new 3-year post doc opportunity in the Centre for Agricultural Economics and Development. The position is working under A/Prof Marit Kragt through the Australian Research Council's Centre for Behavioural Insights for Technology Adoption (BITA). The Research Fellow/Associate will conduct be...

UWA Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy has just been published in Nature! The article discusses the diversity of values for sustainability. Congratulations to Dr Ram Pandit for his ongoing collaborations and work in this space. A very interesting read that advocates for combinations of values-centred approaches in science and policy to enable transformative change for the sustainability of nature. UWA Research UWA School of Agriculture and Environment

Diverse values of nature for sustainability - Nature Following a wide-ranging review of studies, reports and policies about nature’s multiple values, combinations of values-centred approaches are proposed to improve valuation of nature, address barriers to uptake in decision-making, and make transformative changes towards more ju...

BSF waste to profit project produces a range of outputs for our industry partners As the research activities on this project end, the team are communicating the results to our industry partners through a 6-page industry-facing research summary report and a series of webinars and fact sheets. Webinars The research leaders of the various project components recently delivered three....

UWA School of Agriculture and Environment researchers engage directly with farmers for Beeflinks research project

Cattle farm in Dandaragan warmly welcomes BeefLinks' researchers Beeflinks’ researchers from the Centre for Agriculture Economics and Development recently spent the day in WA's mid-west town of Dandaragan to meet with cattle farmers. The mid-west region is mainly a grain producing area, although 11% of the annual production value is generated from livestock (DP...

Our Black Soldier Fly "waste to profit" project is ending. Find out about the research results through these communications - webinars, 6-page summary report, and a series of Fact Sheets.

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BSF waste to profit project produces a range of outputs for our industry partners As the research activities on this project end, the team are communicating the results to our industry partners through a 6-page industry-facing research summary report and a series of webinars and fact sheets. Webinars The research leaders of the various project components recently delivered three....

Registration and Call for Submissions for WA AARES Conference - Sept 05 2023

Calling postgraduate research students to submit a presentation for 2023 WA AARES Conference The Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society of Western Australia (AARES WA) would like to invite postgraduate research students to the AARES WA 2023 conference, which will be a full-day conference held on Tuesday September 5th during the mid-semester break. The conference will be he...

Need to understand Benefit Costs Analysis better?

Applied BCA course for industry practitioners is about to commence - enrol now As part of the UWA Plus program, our centre runs an Applied BCA course twice a year, starting in February and July, aimed at our industry partners and interested practitioners. The next course is about to commence and there are still places available should you wish to upskill and build your knowled...

🌾🚜 Embracing technology for enhanced grain yields 🚜🌾

Broden Holland and his family are using precision farming techniques to optimise grain production on their farm between Young and Grenfell in southern New South Wales.

In 2016, Broden and his father Chris started using data from a protein monitor and grid soil sampling to guide their farming inputs.

They fitted a protein monitor to one of their harvesters to blend grain according to protein levels and began using two-hectare grid mapping of soil to check pH and phosphorus levels.

The results? Their paddocks now have a phosphorus level of 55 and a pH of 5.5. They're now aiming for a pH of 6.0 to improve faba bean production and nitrogen fixation.

Broden says there is a link between wheat grain protein and plant-available nitrogen.

"It shows how much nitrogen the plant has taken up".

Broden has also been using wheat grain protein maps to guide urea inputs since 2017. Initially, he used six to seven different rates of urea in most paddocks, but he has now simplified this to one or two rates where grain protein maps are less variable.

The impact on their grain yields has been significant. In favourable seasons, yields on one block have increased from an average of six to 7t/ha of wheat across six per cent of the area to six to 7t/ha of wheat across most of the area.

To further streamline their process, Broden now uses the N-Gauge app to create variable-rate urea maps, reducing the time required from three hours to just one hour.

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📷 Nicole Baxter

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Professor Amy Ando to deliver a lecture on Environmental and Resource Economics and Systemic Racism

Professor Amy Ando to deliver lecture on Environmental and Resource Economics and Systemic Racism As part of the AARES WA Environmental Policy Lecture series, Professor Amy Ando will present her recent research in an online free webinar at 8:00 AM (AWST) on Thursday, 13 July. Please click here to register for the webinar. Everyone is welcome to attend so please share the flyer with your interest...

Centre for Agricultural Economics and Development is a key note speaker at this year's Governance and Development in Transition Conference - see poster for details and to register for this fully online conference.

CAED invited to be a key note speaker at the International Conference on Governance and Development 𝐈𝐂𝐆𝐃𝟑 𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐮𝐩 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬! CAED Deputy Director, Associate Professor Fay Rola-Rubzen, has been invited as a plenary speaker for the 3rd Internati...