Rebekah Starick

Word of the year: dry 🌵

Staying optimistic with canola in the ground, lentils are halfway through, and still having decent stubbles but needing a national rain dance

Also, a reminder to feed your tractor drivers 🥪

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Kicking off the second GRDC NGN forum for the week in Wolseley on Tuesday - chatting all things cropping & research gaps 🌱

There’s still time to get involved with forums - so head online to register and join us for a chat, a feed & a preso from @wheatwatcher.bsky.social
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And another Starick is a published author in a scientific paper!
Proud sister moment when Leah is an author on a paper on alternative methods of surveillance for Japanese Encephalitis Virus in piggeries 🦟🐖
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.27.645166v1

Mental Health and Wellbeing Helplines for Farmers: A Scoping Review of Usage, Acceptability, and Effectiveness of Those Currently in Operation Around the World Farmers have higher risk of suicide than the general working population but are less likely to seek help from mainstream mental health services. Farmer-focused sources of support such as farmer hel...

Very proud sister moment - Hannah has been listed as an author on a new paper out of the ifarmwell team investigating mental health and wellbeing helplines for farmers 🎉
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www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Just a few paddocks left from a season that can only be described as trying - some wins, some pain points, very short crops gone grey, but enough grain for some pigs to enjoy 🌱

Community trust in grains - focal study 2024 This report analyses the results of a 2024 survey of 2800 Australians to understand public sentiment towards the grains industry to identify ways to build social licence and community trust.

The report is public if anyone is key to jump into the details on measuring trust of the community in the grains sector 🌱

tinyurl.com/5yf2vf79

Trust is key to ‘social licence’ for grain growers The work builds on data collected as part of a three-year program, which identified challenges facing the grains industry as well as strategies to strengthen trust within communities.

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groundcover.grdc.com.au/grdc/announc...