The RIRDC Fodder Crops Program aims to stimulate and promote those R&D efforts that will produce quality fodder products and secure sustainability and profitability for all sectors of the Australian fodder industry value chain in domestic and export markets.

This program is funded through a mixture of RIRDC core funds and a voluntary levy on both domestic hay and export of cereal hays.

The Program's research investments are guided by the Fodder Crops R&D Advisory Committee, following the R&D Plan for the Australian Fodder Industry 2009-2013