Chaiyya Cooper

🌾 Join us at the Dale Research Field Day 2025! Hear the latest on abiotic stress tolerance in grain crops, from chickpea chilling tolerance to wheat frost resistance and climate outlooks. 📍 Dale, WA 📅 1 Oct 2025 | 10 am – 1 pm 👉 RSVP by 24 Sept! eventbrite.com.au/e/dale-researc…

Spotted frost in the paddock yet?? ❄️🌾 Last week at our frost research trial site, in Dale, WA, temperatures dipped to a brisk -3.2C. It’s still early in the season though, so most crops are sitting safely in the vegetative phase. Thanks to @AmanuelBekuma the pics 📷

Ever wondered how tiny bacteria could make frost damage worse in crops? 🤔 In the Better Frost Decisions podcast @ChaiyyaCooper DPIRD researcher talks about work testing products that could protect crops from frost damage caused by ice nucleating bacteria. @theGRDC ❄️facebook.com/share/19QmppNy…

Thank you to everyone who came along to our annual field day yesterday, the speakers, the DPIRD frost team and @theGRDC and @DPIRDbroadacre for your support!

👩‍🎓WA Scholars share their journey at the #24CFConf! Bringing together experts and #NextGen to tackle challenges in agriculture for development. Get inspired by their reflections 👉 buff.ly/3YdroPC #NextGenAg4D

Was great to visit Wagga Wagga last week to hear @PhenologyisFun and others talk about frost tolerance, heat stress, and disease!

Last week some of our team took a look at the chickpea trial at the dale DPRID site on the @CurtinUni agribusiness field trip. Great to see other chickpea trials!

❄️WEBINAR: Decisions with frosted and stressed crops❄️ 📅 Fri 4 Oct ⏰ 1-2pm (AEST) Several grain growing regions have have been frosted or moisture starved and are showing the signs. Join our livestream to help assess options & understand potential outcomes/risks. 👉 bit.ly/4eBxnms @ORMPtyLtd

Come to our field day to hear the latest on our work managing ice nucleating bacteria to reduce frost risk in cereal crops! As well as other frost and chilling tolerance research being done by @DPIRDbroadacre! ❄️❄️@BrentonLeske @AmanuelBekuma

@DMAg_consultant @jock_mcneil @CropDoctor54 @JasonBrand @tommy_bath @brettbarker92 @SeanM_DMAg_SA What would amelioration have you done?

Soil amelioration can be very visual first year - less frost effect also , especially in lentils 🌱@jock_mcneil @CropDoctor54 @JasonBrand @tommy_bath @brettbarker92 @SeanM_DMAg_SA

Wrapping up the #IWC2024Perth It has been a wonderful event bringing together scientists from all around the world to share the brilliant innovation happening in wheat research!

Was a pleasure to show off our Frost research at our Dale trial site.

I’m grateful to @CrawfordFund sponsoring me as one of their conference scholars to attend the 2024 ‘Food and Nutrition Security: Transformative Partnerships, Local Leadership and Co-Design’ at Parliament House in Canberra #24cfconf

Congratulations to the Agribusiness/ Ag Sci/ Ag Honours and Ag Systems MSc students who graduated last night. The Ag industry is waiting for you and I look forward to seeing your journeys. Too busy watching to take photos 😊 @CurtinUni #agribusiness @ChaiyyaCooper @milesellery

The annual Dale Research Field Walk is fast approaching next month! Please register your interest here #frostisfun" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">eventbrite.com.au/e/dpird-dale-r…

In our final week of the ACPA trial, growth measurements and yield data were taken. Now it’s time to investigate if there was a difference between the six Canola varieties and three nitrogen timing treatment applications! @ChaiyyaCooper @Erin__Schilling @Bec_Swift_ @SJB_Ag

Checking in on our plot trial today. The odds are becoming more stacked against us in this sandy soil type - pests are liking the taste of our HYOLA F1 (photo 3), and the Wahoo variety (photo 4) has more of a cabbage form, but we are yet to see any flowering! #ag #curtinuni

This week we’ve noticed lots of bees hanging around! As well as something enjoying the taste of our canola and eating all the stems. It can’t be birds due to the netting enclosure, but we’re thinking rats. What do you guys think? @ChaiyyaCooper @swalters2001 @SJB_Ag @Bec_Swift_

This week in our ACPA trial, we measured our second set of growth measurements and applied our second urea (N) applications to canola treatments 2 & 3. Also monitoring for some diseases and pests @Erin__Schilling @ChaiyyaCooper @Bec_Swift_ @SJB_Ag

This week in our ACPA trial, we applied our first applications of urea treatments (N) to 6 canola varieties and collected our first growth measurements. T1 - 1 application (of 130 units). T2 (control) - 2 applications (of 65 units). T3 - 3 applications (of 43.34 units).