2025 Grain Legume Crop Competition ‘Crop-etition’

Western Australian growers were challenged to showcase the power of pulses in the state’s newest Grower Group Alliance (GGA) on-farm competition, ‘Crop-etition’, with a chance to win a $2000 gift card to spend at Crown Towers.

Thank you to those who took the time to enter the GGA 2025 Grain Legumes Crop-etition. 

We were thrilled by the level of interest and the quality of entries received. The commitment from farmers to growing grain legumes and share their results plays an important role in building knowledge, innovation and confidence across the Western Australian grains industry. 

After careful assessment, the winners for each category have now been selected.  

The GGA 2025 Grain Legumes Crop-etition winners are: 

• Chickpeas: Jim Hamilton, Moora 

• Faba beans: Rian Duncan, West River 

• Field peas: Peter Daw, Ravensthorpe 

• Lupins: Trevor Syme, Bolgart 

• Unfortunately, we did not receive any entries for Lentils, therefor no winner was selected for this category. 

Congratulations to all winners, your results highlight what’s possible under WA growing conditions and showcase best practice in legume production.   

Pulse-racing competition winners announced: WA growers lead the way in GGA’s Grain Legume Crop-etition

The Crop-etition highlighted the grain legume yields attainable in WA and demonstrated how growers are successfully incorporating them into their rotations. This complements an existing program of work GGA is leading with 13 grower groups to help close the economic yield gap of grain legumes in WA. 

Learn more about how GGA and 13 WA grower groups are working to close the economic yield gap of grain legumes, visit the GGA project webpage.

Hear from GGA’s Head of Projects Dr Daniel Kidd on Rural Focus, sharing more information about the exciting legumes ‘Cropetition’, with entries currently open and closing at the end of September. Listen to the interview below: