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Start Date: 01/10/2021

End Date: 30/06/2026

Funding Provider: Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC)

Project Lead: Grower Group Alliance (GGA)

Aim: To identify and address the agronomic and economic constraints limiting grain legume performance in Western Australian farming systems, with the goal of improving profitability, reliability, and grower confidence in legumes.

Project Background: The Closing the Economic Yield Gap of Grain Legumes in Western Australia project is a GRDC funded investment, delivered through the GGA, to address the historically low adoption and inconsistent performance of grain legumes in WA cropping systems.

Despite growers understanding the rotational benefits of legumes, concerns around production reliability, profitability and confidence in consistent outcomes have led to limited uptake and under-realised economic potential.

The project combines extension, technical and economic analysis, and on-farm trials across a range of environments and soil types to refine best-practice agronomy, demonstrate recent advances, and provide statistically robust economic evaluation of legumes as cash crops and their financial contribution to longer-term rotations.

By identifying yield and profitability constraints and communicating credible, locally relevant outcomes, the investment seeks to improve grower confidence and support broader, profitable integration of grain legumes in Western Australian farming systems.

Project Contact: Montana Bradley - research@mig.org.au or 0499 245 463

Investment Code: GGA2110-002SAX