Grower Group Alliance - South-West WA Drought Hub
Grower Group Alliance - South-West WA Drought Hub

Projects

Since its establishment, the Hub has partnered on a wide range of research, development, extension, adoption and commercialisation (RDEA&C) projects aimed at building drought resilience across the region.

This page showcases these projects, highlighting the innovative approaches, practical solutions, and collaborative partnerships that have supported farmers, communities, and industry.

Explore detailed project summaries, outcomes, and insights to understand the Hub’s impact and learn how these initiatives contribute to more resilient agricultural systems in the South-West of Western Australia.

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Project List

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Orchard optimisation: producing apples efficiently in a changing climate

The project aims to improve water use efficiency, reduce the risks of under- and over-irrigation, and support wider adoption of soil moisture monitoring across the WA apple industry.
  • Start Date: 05/08/2026
  • End Date: 30/06/2027
  • Project Status: Active
  • Commodity: Horticulture and viticulture
  • Resilience type: Economic, Environmental
  • Relevant region: Lower South West

In search of the super cow: Understanding the genetic and behavioural factors influencing body composition in WA rangelands beef cattle

This project focuses on understanding how genetics and grazing behaviour influence body composition in WA rangelands beef cattle, and subsequent effects on reproductive efficiency and steer performance (e.g. growth and meat quality).
  • Start Date: 23/07/2026
  • End Date: 31/05/2027
  • Project Status: Active
  • Commodity: Livestock
  • Relevant region: Southern Rangelands

Evaluating the practicality of using broadacre agricultural seeding machinery to sow native seed mixes

This project aims to understand whether broadacre seeding machinery used across the Wheatbelt could be used as an alternative direct-seeding method for native seed mixes, if native mixes were pelleted to the size of these commonly sown crops.
  • Start Date: 23/07/2026
  • End Date: 31/05/2027
  • Project Status: Active
  • Commodity: Broadacre cropping, Mixed farming
  • Relevant region: Lower South West, Wheatbelt

Hot and hormonal: Investigating antioxidant strategies to improve reproductive outcomes of livestock undergoing heat stress

This study will address knowledge gaps surrounding the interaction between heat stress and the reproductive cycle of cattle, and the efficacy of supplementing rangeland cattle with antioxidants to support thermoregulation.
  • Start Date: 01/05/2026
  • End Date: 30/11/2026
  • Project Status: Active
  • Commodity: Livestock
  • Relevant region: Southern Rangelands

Smart Grazing, Stronger Lands

This project will assist pastoralists and land managers throughout Australia’s Southern Rangelands to adopt proven climate-smart decision support tools and technologies to improve grazing management and ecosystem health.
  • Start Date: 01/05/2026
  • End Date: 31/03/2028
  • Project Status: Active
  • Commodity: Livestock
  • Relevant region: Southern Rangelands

Future Ready Ag

Agricultural advisers have a large influence on the Western Australian agricultural ecosystem. This pilot initiative uses evidence-based climate projection tools to equip advisers and their producer clients with the knowledge and confidence to understand and plan for future climate variability.
  • Start Date: 24/11/2025
  • End Date: 30/06/2027
  • Project Status: Active
  • Commodity: Broadacre cropping, Dairy, Horticulture and viticulture, Livestock, Mixed farming
  • Resilience type: Economic, Environmental
  • Relevant region: Lower South West, Mid West & Gascoyne Coastal, Southern Rangelands, Wheatbelt

Landscape function toolkit

The Landscape Function Toolkit (LiFT) will equip land managers, farmers and First Nations’ peoples with the skills and tools to monitor the function of their landscapes and take action to increase the health and resilience of agricultural landscapes in the face of climate change.
  • Start Date: 01/09/2025
  • End Date: 30/06/2028
  • Project Status: Active
  • Commodity: Mixed farming
  • Relevant region: Lower South West, Southern Rangelands, Wheatbelt

Early insights for more resilient communities dashboard

The Dashboard will provide up-to-date, localised data to help communities track resilience over time and identify early warning signs of stress. It will include a range of economic, social and environmental indicators with current available data as well as state-based co-design workshops and extension.
  • Start Date: 22/08/2025
  • End Date: 30/11/2026
  • Project Status: Active
  • Commodity: Broadacre cropping, Dairy, Horticulture and viticulture, Livestock, Mixed farming
  • Relevant region: Lower South West, Mid West & Gascoyne Coastal, Southern Rangelands, Wheatbelt