The journey from the Lazenby report to today and beyond, is documented in a video produced in October 2016by Storyboard Multimedia.In five minutes it outlines not just history, but a future with great potential benefits for GRDC, growers and the grains industry.

In May 2014 Storyboard presented ACAS a vision for an optimised Big Data future for the grains industry.

On November 3rd 2016, the Productivity Commissioner handed down a draft report on Data availability and use. 

It underscored many elements that Storyboard and ACAS have discussed for some time including:

• There are substantiated arguments in favour of greater data access and sharing
• There is a clear public interest in having research-oriented data widely available to trusted researchers in a timely manner
• Data collection in Australia is highly fragmented
• A lack of data sharing between the public, private and academic sectors…. results in duplication and inconsistency
• Fragmentation in the research sector…. affects data quality  
• Improvements in research can occur through increased availability of data created by researchers
• Stimulate new research networks and collaborations, including by creating greater opportunities for downstream research and facilitate knowledge transfer to industry