915 results for hort innovation

With the launch of its $20 million second investment round, Australia’s Food and Beverage Accelerator, FaBA is seeking new partners and projects with ‘strong innovation potential’ to drive Australia’s food and beverage manufacturing sector forward.

A German-Queensland science program is set to nurture innovator and researcher networks. Grants of up to $250,000 are available to Queensland research organisations and partners to work together with German counterparts to co-develop bioeconomy solutions.

Buoyed by the success of their first fund, champions of Australian agrifood innovation, Tenacious Ventures, are taking their proven high conviction, high support investment model to the world – with a $70 million fund that opens the door to co-investors and founders beyond Australia who share the company’s passion for delivering climate impact through agricultural innovation.  

AgriFutures Australia Managing Director, John Harvey shares the vision behind the online platform grow^AG., its critical role in driving Australian agrifood innovation and global opportunities, and its powerful success. 

It is a great time to be in rural research and innovation. There is a landslide of activity across agriculture, fisheries and forestries, all designed to deliver new technologies and opportunities to Australian farmers.

 

Each year, the Australian government, universities and industry invest billions of dollars in research to support agriculture, fisheries and forestry. There are 15 Research and Development Corporations (RDCs), 43 universities and hundreds of industry organisations and peak bodies, that currently house thousands of research projects. But, in order to find them, you need to know what you are looking for and where to look. Until now.

The aim of this project is to fast track an exciting development arising from the related AWI project ON-00619 Development …

The Australian Pastures Genebank (APG) Phase 1 was established in 2013 and operates under the framework of the International Treaty on Plant …

Virtual fencing provides the opportunity to maximise animal production, maintain sustainable crop and pasture grazing pressure and control weeds through …

Flystrike, and its control, is a significant cost to the Australian sheep and wool industries. With the advent of new …

The grazing of crop stubbles affords producers access to a feed source that is a by-product of cropping. This project …

Nutritional gaps present a large production cost to grass-fed woolgrowers due to suboptimal ruminant production and conservative whole-farm stocking rates. …

The Australian Pastures Genebank (APG) Phase 1 was established in 2013 and operates under the framework of the International Treaty on Plant …

For many years laparoscopic Artificial Insemination (AI) using frozen semen has produced highly variable results and as a consequence, some …

Resistance to breech flystrike is a priority area of research for the Australian wool industry as genetic progress in sheep …

This project is looking at the performance of Merino ewes over their lifetime to help the Australian Merino industry understand …

This project is focussed on validating production benefits in wool sheep by: Determining if it is possible to identify Merino …

Control of the sheep blowfly relies largely on the use of chemical insecticides applied as preventative treatments to protect against …

Phosphorus (P) is the primary nutrient input that drives legume growth and nitrogen fixation in the pastures of southern Australia. …

Surgical mulesing is a painful husbandry procedure, carried out to minimise the risk of breech flystrike throughout life of a …

Opportunity for

• Farmers/growers in broadacre cropping and horticultural (orchard and vegetables) industries interested in collaboration with a novel farm production investment platform.

^This opportunity is only for professional and sophisticated investors.