Australian Crop Accreditation System Limited
Research - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Australian Crop Accreditation System Limited Employees
Australian Crop Accreditation System Limited Details
The Australian Crop Accreditation System Limited (ACAS) is a not-for-profit company established to provide information to growers and their advisers on the performance of field crop varieties in Australia. Its trustees are the Grain Producers Australia (GPA), Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) and the Australian Seed Federation (ASF). ACAS has managed National Variety Trials program since its inception in 2005. ACAS has been established to:- Provide sound information on the performance and characteristics of grain crop varieties, so that growers can make informed selections from available varieties;- Develop and maintain protocols for evaluating the yield, quality, disease and other agronomic characteristics of grain crop varieties;- Collaborate with plant breeding organisations to submit varieties they wish to have included in National Variety Trials;- Manage a system of National Variety Trials to deliver technical information where the information conforms to established protocols;- Examine and audit, as appropriate, the procedures used to generate technical information against the established protocols;- Publish variety information in a form that enables growers to make valid comparisons between available varieties;- Provide high quality wheat and barley seed for GRDC funded research projects, including but not limited to the NVT program- Manage a site audit process to channel feedback to GRDC on the quality of their research activities
