Agricultural & Resource Economics at UWA

03/10/2023

Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy released it latest news update - see what projects the staff have been working on -

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27/09/2023

We are hiring - apply for a research-intensive post doc role now!

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...

10/08/2023

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

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...

31/07/2023

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....

31/07/2023

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

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...

31/07/2023

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.

Thanks UWA School of Agriculture and Environment and UWA Research

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....

20/07/2023

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

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...

20/07/2023

Need to understand Benefit Costs Analysis better?

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...

30/06/2023

🌾🚜 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.

Read more: https://bit.ly/3NMcOJt

📷 Nicole Baxter

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How are you applying technology on-farm?

30/06/2023

RANKED #72 IN THE WORLD ⬆️📈🌏
We’re proud to have climbed 18 places in the 2024 QS World University Rankings, placing us in the top 75 universities for the first time ever 🥳

28/06/2023

Professor Amy Ando to deliver a 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...

24/05/2023

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.

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...