1. APSIM in the Queensland Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Greg McLean Jason Brider Ian Broad Peter De Voil

2. Agronomy GRDC Projects High yielding cereal agronomy in the northern grains region. (Wheat Sorghum) Tactical Agronomy (Sorghum Maize) Experimental data will characterise the latest seed company varieties

3. Crop Improvement BMGF Project o Validate sorghum for Ethiopia using experimental data o Characterise local genotypes o Gather met and soils information for the sorghum growing regions o Environment Characterisation o Conduct modelling Workshops o Check varieties in breeding trials

4. Crop Improvement Ongoing trait modelling – sorghum staygreen Environment characterisation of the sorghum breeding trials Maize trait modelling with Pioneer HiBred – Grain abortion. Provide a maize model for the EU funded DROPS project Limited transpiration in sorghum.

5. Crop Improvement – Model Programming Using the sorghum framework to create a new pearl millet model Updating the sorghum and maize models to the new Plant Modelling Framework Wheat model Adapting the models to work in the New APSIM