May 3, 2002

The performance of more than 500 field and grain crop varieties at 1,200 test sites and 5,000 trials across Australia has been captured on CD ROM now available free to farmers and others in the grains
industry.

This initiative, labelled 'Variety Selector¹, has been developed by the Australian Crop Accreditation System, a national voluntary system designed to provide quality information on the performance of grain varieties.

By using the CD ROM farmers and others can see how varieties perform in conditions and locations similar to their own and relative to other varieties. Previously this type of information has been State-specific and often only available in hard copy.

For details on Variety Selector, an initiative supported by the Grains Research and Development Corporation and other grains industry organisations, check the website at www.acas.on.net or fax your request for a CD ROM to Span Communication at (03) 9328 5302.