The GRDC Hyper Yielding Crops (HYC) project was set up to challenge the current boundaries of productivity and profitability in the high yielding regions of southern Australia. To scale up the findings of the research, and to drive enthusiasm and adoption in the different HRZ regions the annual national HYC Awards was created. This component of the project involved the whole HYC team collecting paddock samples, to issue agronomic benchmarking reports to participating growers. Over the four years of the project, more than 330 crops of wheat, and then in 2022 and 2023 barley were entered into the HYC Awards competition, with more than 40 winners announced, and award plaques presented. Sharing/access information (D-3.1*) Available to Third Parties under terms and conditions to be agreed by co-owners of the data Data and file overview (D-3.2) The data presented here is the 2022 and 2023 Hyper Yielding Crops Project award paddock data. The results cover yield, grain quality, yield component, soil, input and decision data from SA, TAS, VIC and WA. Collated 2022 HYC Barley Dataset.xlsx Collated 2022 HYC Wheat Dataset.xlsx Collated 2023 HYC Barley Dataset.xlsx Collated 2023 HYC Wheat Dataset.xlsx Data files The data is organised in each sheet by trial site ID, trial site location, state, year, crop type, and variety name. Specific information contained in datasets below: Previous crop, sow date, harvest date, season length, yield (t/ha), harvest method, thousand seed weight (g), germination rate, plant population, sow rate (kg/ha), seeds per m2 sown, stubble management, fallow management,     grazed start date, grazed end date, seeder type, seeder name, row spacing, seeder width, spreader width and sprayer width, ph cacl2 (0-10 cm), Colwell p (0-10 cm), Colwell k (0-10 cm), ECEC (0-10 cm), organic carbon (0-10 cm), APAL soil texture 0 10 (0-10 cm), other soil texture (0-10 cm), grain N, grain P, grain K, grain S, grain Cu, grain Zn, grain Mn, avg dry matter at harvest (t/ha), avg harvest index post-harvest (%), avg head count at harvest, avg grains per head post-harvest, avg grains per m2 at harvest, avg 1000 grain weight at harvest (g), avg protein post-harvest (%), avg test weight post-harvest (Kg/hl), avg screenings post-harvest (%), avg seeder row spacing at harvest (mm), fertiliser total (kg/ha), number of fertiliser applications, fertiliser application details, fungicide cost (per ha), number of fungicide applications, fungicide application details, herbicide cost (per ha), number of herbicide applications, herbicide application details and PGR application details, ASC soil order and APAL soil texture and reason for sowing [spring sown barley]. This repository includes: The most recent version of the excel data sheet(s) that record original data and contains related calculations (eg. Ave dry matter at harvest from dry matter quadrant cut). Methodological information (D-3.3) Data was collected by HYC project officers in each region working with local growers. Recording of paddock information was conducted across three assessment visits during the course of the season. Yield component data was calculated by FAR Australia using samples supplied by regional project officers. Raw data has been summarised per plot into columns representing each assessment conducted exported from the HYC portal developed by CeRDI. Assessment descriptions and units are summarised in the 'Read Me' tab contained in each file. Environmental/experimental conditions (D-3.4) Soil information ( including ASC soil order and APAL soil texture) are described for each location in each dataset. The data spreadsheets are self-describing. The rows above the data typically contain, a brief description of the assessment made and any notes. Acknowledgement The research undertaken as part of these projects is made possible by the significant contributions of growers through both trial cooperation and the support of the GRDC, the authors would like to thank them for their continued support. FAR Australia gratefully acknowledges the support of all of its research and extension partners in the Hyper Yielding Crops project. These are CSIRO, the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) in WA, Brill Ag, Southern Farming Systems (SFS), Techcrop, the Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation (CeRDI) at Federation University Australia, MacKillop Farm Management Group (MFMG), Riverine Plains Inc and Stirling to Coast Farmers.