Farming & Food

Cows fed small amount of seaweed burp 86 per cent less methane in trial

ABC Online, Other, 18/03/2021, Nick Kilvert Feeding cattle a small amount of a seaweed species found in Australia has been […]

Busy year for the Field Explorer is based at Australian Plant Phenomics Facility’s The Plant Accelerator in Adelaide

SeedQuest, Other, 16/03/2021 The APPF’s FieldExplorer completed imaging in 16 field trials in its first year of operation and included […]

Horticulture is set for major upscale and expansion in the far north

Australasian Farmers’ & Dealers’ Journal, Other, 15/03/2021 In a region long touted as a major food bowl, our scientists are […]

Eating, growing, exporting: could insects be the world’s next biggest protein?

ABC Online, Other, 15/03/2021 Insects - the smallest livestock in the world - could be the next big food trend, […]

Beetles may be silver bullet for Tableland soils

The Express Newspaper, Other, 12/03/2021, Sally Turley Discoveries being made by local research group, "Dung Beetles on the Atherton Tablelands: […]

Australia’s RapidAIM gets funding to scale real-time pest management

AFN (AgFunder News), Other, 12/03/2021, Jack Ellis RapidAIM, an Australian agtech startup that’s developing a cost-effective monitoring system for crop […]

Syngenta Seeds and the Analytics Society of INFORMS announce finalists for the 2021 Syngenta Crop Challenge in Analytics

Yahoo! Finance, Other, 13/03/2021 5 min read Competition inspires cross-industry collaboration to accelerate innovation and improve complex crop breeding processes […]

Australia’s most sustainable seafoods recognised

Inside FMCG, Other, 08/03/2021, Robert Stockdill Two Australian seafood products have shared this year’s top honours in the Sustainable Seafood […]

Some practices may need tweaking to maintain sorghum production

groundcover.grdc.com.au, Other, 08/03/2021, Jeremy Whish CSIRO reviewed local, annual and growing season climates and associated sorghum production Comparing these results […]