Birchip Cropping Group (BCG)

Birchip Cropping Group (BCG) is a not-for-profit agricultural research and extension organisation led by farmers in the Wimmera and Mallee regions of Victoria. BCG strives to improve the prosperity of farmers and rural communities through farmer-driven innovation with the aim to provide practical solutions to farm production and business constraints.

BCG formed in 1992 after a group of local farmers identified a need for crop variety research and herbicide demonstrations in the immediate Birchip region. BCG's growth was rapid and our research now extends across the wider Wimmera and Mallee region (up to 200km from Birchip) and encompasses all of the elements that contribute to a profitable mixed farming business.