Professor of Agricultural Innovation at CSU and director of the E H Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation, Deirdre Lemerle, will next month launch the 13-hectare Wagga site which gives an insight into research under way to secure the future of crops and pastures.

“The site showcases our cutting-edge research which I believe will shape the future of mixed farming systems in south-eastern Australia,” Professor Lemerle (pictured) said.

“In the last 20 to 30 years, agricultural industries have made enormous progress towards improved sustainability.

“Our farmers must be rewarded by the government and consumers for the real cost of sustainable food production.”

To be launched on Wednesday, September 8, the site aims to further develop the E H Graham Centre’s ties with industry and highlight the new knowledge being created to ensure a sustainable agricultural sector.

On show at the field site is a range of wheat varieties released between 1901 and 2009 to demonstrate genetic gains from plant breeding as well as early and late sown forage canola crops, controlled traffic wheat crop, forage crops for hay and silage, damage risks from commonly used herbicides, a soil pit and biochar for carbon capture.