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Innovation in Ag - editions content

Innovation in Ag 2024 editions and stories

 

December 2024 edition

  • A hard nut to crack: Future-proofing Australia's macadamia industry
  • A chemical-free way to control flystrike in sheep
  • Researchers target sorghum breeding to boost grain crops
  • Bringing new life to an ancient nut
  • Sugarcane genetics more complex than human
  • High-tech spray prevents and cures rusty plant threat
  • Ticking the boxes to defeat a deadly parasite  
  • A fruitful partnership to boost bushfood
  • Next-generation plant and animal breeding boosted by $13M training fund
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November 2024 edition

  • Mitigating heat stress in heifers to prevent stock losses
  • Starting change young is the key to sustainable eating
  • Collaboration key to ultimate genotypes in plants and livestock 
  • Next-generation plant and animal breeding boosted by $13M training fund
  • Recent advances in technologies and applications of genomics in plants
  • Analysis of opportunities and challenges regarding genetic improvement in emerging Australian agricultural Industries  
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October 2024 edition

  • Researchers target sorghum breeding to boost grain crops
  • A fruitful partnership to boost bushfood
  • Alliance offers fertile ground for bio-based agricultural chemicals
  • Nutting out new threats to macadamia crop 
  • Holy guacamole: tissue culture technology to hit Latin America 
  • A life in science: from Rht genes in wheat to PIN genes in sorghum
  • Three weeks to nourish the chicken embryo   
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September 2024 edition

  • Science proves traditional knowledge on the health benefits of Kakadu plum 
  • Shedding light on the potential of vertical farming
  • Legumes a key to reducing nitrogen losses from agriculture  
  • Growing talent to feed the world: a new ARC Training Centre in Predictive Breeding  
  • Borderless innovation: the changing face of horticulture  
  • The application of particle engineering in food products 
  • CIMMYT Director General visit to UQ: Strengthening global partnership for food and nutrition security and sustainability
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August 2024 edition

  • Brewing a home-grown coffee variety
  • The sky is the limit for QAAFI's "Flying Scientists"  
  • $41 million to spur development of new fruit and nut varieties
  • Collaboration on carbon sequestration in soil   
  • Fertiliser nitrogen in a net zero world - perspectives from broadacre cropping industries 
  • The application of particle engineering in food products 
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July 2024 edition

  • A tough nut to crack: Future-proofing Australia's macadamia industry
  • A chemical-free way to control flystrike in sheep  
  • The road to food security through better plant disease management 
  • The heat is on: fast-tracking high temperature tolerant chickpea varieties
  • Optimising and industrialising black soldier fly larvae production
  • ABC Landline: new opportunities for Australian cotton
  • How uniquely Australian foods could help us diversify our diet
  • UQ and ILRI join forces to deliver sustainable, climate resilient livestock systems 
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June 2024 edition

  • Ticking the boxes to defeat a deadly parasite
  • Boosting grain size in sorghum by increasing the grain filling duration
  • Native Grow: First Nations entrepreneur program
  • New initiative to tackle urgent need to transform Australia’s food systems
  • Science seminar: A tough nut to crack: Insights from the National Macadamia Breeding Program
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May 2024 edition

  • Calf Alive: better diet boosting health outcomes in northern beef cattle herds
  • Australia leads the charge with an ultrasonic cold brew coffee in mere minutes
  • Genes, germs, greenhouse gases and gastronomy
  • Fighting back against Fall armyworm: ABC Landline
  • Roots for drought: overcoming the root phenotyping bottleneck in cereals
  • Invitation to the launch of Food System Horizons
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April 2024 edition

  • Bringing new life to an ancient nut
  • Kakadu plum meat preservation
  • Best of both worlds: translating research to industry
  • Industry fellowships for QAAFI researchers
  • From the outback to the Olympics: how native food is changing how we eat and buy
  • Harnessing dsRNA for myrtle rust control and biological insight  
  • Only 30 tickets remain for the UQ seminar at Beef2024 
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March 2024 edition

  • Can mRNA vaccines help boost livestock production?
  • A holistic approach is key to improving drought adaptation in crops
  • Sugarcane genetics are more complex than human
  • Genetic ancestor could solve the problems affecting the world's bananas 
  • Lumpy skin disease is a threat that could decimate our cattle industry  
  • Leading a new chapter in international cooperation on wild rice
  • The continuing evolution of agriculture and food science: Seminar 
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 February 2024 edition

  • High-tech spray prevents and cures rusty plant threat 
  • Leading the charge towards net zero in agriculture 
  • UQ research reveals nutrition potential of budding bushfood 
  • Biotech Nexus Lab to target bovine breakthroughs 
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Innovation in Ag 2023 editions and stories

 

December 2023 edition

  • Net zero emissions from Australian agriculture: a challenge and an opportunity.
  • Deep freeze: preserving native plants at risk of extinction
  • Giving farmers certainty to tackle a crop-eating pest 
  • Indigenous communities taking the lead in bushfood industry
  • Turning big data into better breeds and varieties: Can AI help feed the planet?
  • Artificial intelligence in aquaculture - a test case in barramundi breeding  
  • Passion project revitalising flagging fruit industry
  • Research to improve yield stability of "money beans"
  • Cattle selection for nitrogen use efficiency
  • High steaks - creating a point of difference for Australian beef 

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November 2023 edition

  • A new approach to understanding Aboriginal foodways   
  • Beefing up cattle supplements 
  • Sleeves up as science tackles citrus virus
  • Ensuring best practice in the buffalo supply chain 
  • Kakadu plum bioactivity against spoilage microorganisms in refrigerated raw beef patties 
  • Remote sensing applications for Australian cropping systems

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October 2023 edition

  • Indigenous communities taking the lead in bushfood industry
  • Diversifying the diet with wild Australian millet
  • Deep freeze: preserving native plants at risk of extinction
  • The role of Phytase emzyme in Monogastric nutrition
  • Identifying promising biomarkers of experiential state in sheep
  • Generating a large-scale mutant library providing new sources of genetic variation in sorghum
  • “What a great internship, a stepping stone in my career”

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September 2023 edition

  • Genomic selection offers sweet success for cane farmers
  • Harnessing RNA mobility for effective plant protection
  • Second day added to Gatton Smart Farm AgTech Showcase
  • No boundary: From Brisbane to Perth to Broome and Darwin
  • Glycogenin in dispensible in mice liver glycogen synthesis
  • ‘Omics analysis in the world’s oldest beverage
  • Calf Alive research update

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August 2023 edition

  • Turning big data into better breeds and varieties: Can AI help feed the planet?
  • High steaks - creating a point of difference for Australian beef
  • Realising a vision for a sustainable agri-food system
  • Going with the grain: growing partnerships with Indonesia
  • Food and beverage accelerator offers $20 million to boost innovation
  • Retracing 'food' steps: exploring native legumes for novel food applications

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July 2023 edition

  • Passion project revitalising flagging fruit industry
  • Artificial intelligence in aquaculture - a test case in barramundi breeding 
  • UQ to strengthen industry-ready workforce with ARC funding 
  • Promising trial results show potential of asparagopsis  
  • UQ and Japan partner to grow global food security and fuel sustainability
  • Recognition for four outstanding QAAFI researchers  
  • A student quinella at the Global Sorghum Conference in France 

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June 2023 edition

  • Cooking up a future for Australian yams
  • Understanding the genetics of mungbean canopy dynamics using longitudinal UAV data
  • Weeds and agriculture threaten wild rice cultivation
  • Empowering Indigenous communities to improve their health through nutrition
  • RNAi for crop protection again viruses and insects 

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May 2023 edition

  • First Nations PhD leads the way on native fungi 
  • Blazing the trail for food and beverage manufacturing in Australia 
  • Australian fruit holds the key to citrus disease resistance  
  • Chicken meat research consortium to level up Australia's favourite meat
  • Research to improve yield stability of "money beans" 
  • What's the latest on GMOs and gene-edited foods?
  • Early career researchers awarded $3.4 million  

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April 2023 edition

  • Cattle selection for nitrogen use efficiency
  • In the pink: lighting the way for the future of STEM 
  • Giving farmers certainty to tackle a crop eating pest
  • Attention plant killers: new research shows your plants could be silently screaming at you  
  • Pachyderm perfume: How African elephants use odour to communicate  

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March 2023 edition

  • Problem weed evolves to grow in Queensland's summer  
  • Towards a sustainable future: QAAFI researcher wins scholarship 
  • Bees abuzz for biosecurity in avocado orchards 
  • Taking the first steps to produce a smart sugar from sugarcane by stingless bees  
  • QAAFI researcher awarded Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellowship
  • Murri school visits Ekhorn for a taste of bushfoods and science 
  • UQ-IITD PhD candidate presents renewable energy research to the Australian Prime Minister  
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 February 2023 edition

  • Preventing costly cattle disease to boost fertility rates 
  • Salty and sustainable - an Indigenous food with business potential
  • Scientists crack one of broadacre cropping's most sought genetic secrets
  • What's next for Australia's macadamia industry as farmgate prices crack under global glut?
  • Speeding up sugar's conversion into fuel 
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January 2023 edition

  • Scientists tackle rusty plant threat
  • Bringing the data of DNA closer to the paddock in the beef industry
  • The quest to mitigate heat stress in the pork industry
  • International coup for collaboration on grain crops
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Innovation in Ag 2022 editions and stories


 

 

 December 2022 edition

  • Game-changing spray to revolutionise pest control 
  • UQ research to cut methane emissions across Australia's cattle industry
  • Sorghum mutants breed crop innovation security
  • Sweetening the deal without the sugar 
  • UQ vaccine research targets lumpy skin disease 
  • Serious risk of extinction - macadamias prove a tough nut to crack
  • Protected cropping - planning for the future 
  • Harnessing light to hack a breeding bottleneck for winter cereal crops 
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 November 2022 edition

  • I Hass to have you - researchers unpick the perfect avocado
  • UQ research to cut methane emissions across Australia's cattle industry
  • Sweetening the deal without the sugar 
  • Is photosynthesis the silver bullet to improve crop yield?
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October 2022 edition

  • Looking to the past to save the future, the origins of agriculture.
  • Biotechnology to reduce methane emissions from cattle
  • Tree traits to boost macadamia production 
  • Male Jojoba plants live shirt lives, while the females endure
  • UQ vaccine research targets lumpy skin disease
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 September 2022 edition

  • Is coffee going extinct? Here's how it could impact you
  • Strawberry fields of flavour
  • Tapping into roots to develop sustainable wheat
  • Common misconceptions about livestock production systems
  • Technologies developed to beat coronavirus could work on farm use
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 August 2022 edition

  • TropAg delegates working to feed the world
  • The insects revolutionising food security
  • A battle is won in the fight against food scarcity
  • You belong here: marking Honours week at QAAFI
  • Harnessing light to hack a breeding bottleneck for winter cereal crops
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July 2022 edition

  • Native bunya nuts close to home for Brazilian researcher
  • Here's what you need to know about the FMD threat 
  • Adapting Australian wheat to changing environments
  • Integrated disease management of black core rot in citrus
  • TropAg conference plenary speakers confirmed
  • Nominations are open to showcase our agricultural leaders
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June 2022 edition

  • Fresh hope for new flystrike control method 
  • Rare macadamia species at risk of extinction
  • Winter wheat outlook
  • New platform shortens elite beef cattle lines' breeding time
  • Superworms capable of munching through plastic waste 

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May 2022 edition

  • UQ secures trailblazing commercial research funding
  • Game-changing spray to revolutionise pest control
  • Largest goat research investment to be led by UQ and industry 
  • Tasting the future of food with next gen plant breeding
  • TropAg conference registration open

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April 2022 edition

  • The garlic puzzle
  • Sorghum mutants breed crop innovation for food security
  • Dr Lida Omaleki, Runner Up of the AgriFutures Research Awards
  • Unveiled – mosaics 125 years in the making
  • QAAFI in 2021
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March 2021 edition

  • Getting to the root of pineapple crop losses
  • Mungbean makeover on the menu
  • Meat the food fraud detectives
  • Selecting for cows that pay their way

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February 2022 edition

  • Agrifood and the bioeconomy in a rapidly changing world
  • New portable ‘DNA clock’ measures age of cattle
  • Fruit’s sensory qualities under the microscope
  • New pre-breeding collaboration targets sorghum lodging
  • Avocado nursery ‘sends in the clones’

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Innovation in Ag 2021 editions and stories

November 2021 edition

Most viewed stories of 2021
  • Orange Capsicums on the menu for long-term eye health
  • hotter, drier, CRISPR: editing for climate change
  • 'Digital twin' concept boosts food production
  • Value-added foods – leveraging Australian attributes
  • Queensland science makes the avocado production bottleneck toast
  • A trip into the therapeutic potential of Australia's native magic mushrooms
Animal Science highlights
  • Healthy sugar origin in stingless bee honey revealed
  • Tackling cattle ticks through DNA
Crop Science highlights
  • hotter, drier, CRISPR: editing for climate change
  • Critically endangered macadamia species becomes a plant supermodel
Horticultural Science highlights
  • Orange capsicums on the menu for long-term eye health
  • Digital twins for mango and macadamia orchards
Food and Nutrition Science highlights
  • DNA Fingerprinting the 'foods of gods'
  • National food waste research centre appoints global leader

October 2021 edition

  • DNA fingerprinting the ‘food of gods’
  • Improving calf survival for the north Australian beef industry
  • Jojoba’s surprising sex secrets revealed
  • Beefing up plant protein burgers

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September 2021 edition

  • Food systems and the bioeconomy: Revitalising agriculture for the 21st century
  • Grain size discovery boosts sorghum potential
  • Race to save a remarkable native tree
  • Dietary fibre and plant food health benefits

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August 2021 edition

  • How magic are Australia’s native magic mushrooms? 
  • World’s first sorghum pan-genome developed
  • More buzz about stingless bee honey
  • Cattle fertility focus drives profits and productivity 

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July 2021 edition

  • Digital twins for mango and macadamia orchards
  • Portable chemistry kit sweetens native bush fruit production
  • Getting to the root of profitable barley production
  • Tackling cattle ticks through DNA 

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June 2021 edition

  • Technology solves avocado bottleneck
  • Sorghum superstar wins Research Excellence Award
  • Shape-changing bacteria evade fowl cholera vaccines
  • Getting the right goat genetics
  • Digital signature technology authenticates food
  • New tools for drought tolerant wheat

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May 2021 edition

  • Pectin, another reason to love mangoes
  • The world’s favourite fruit needs a genetic boost
  • Plant breeding and tomorrow's food
  • Genomics drives discovery of low-emission sheep
  • Weed biology provides control pointers 

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April 2021 edition

  • Precision beef seminar at Beef 2021
  • The optimum cattle management system
  • Wagyu beef passes the taste test of science
  • Research revealing how to select cattle for low-quality pastures
  • Combating pimelea toxicity
  • Cracking the code for a cattle tick vaccine 
  • Australians come together to improve animal welfare
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March 2021 edition

  • A safe, sustainable future for agriculture
  • Essential oils may help gut health of new-age chicks
  • A genetic solution to ensure sorghum stands firm
  • Precision beef seminar at Beef 2021
  • Women Finding Success podcast: Professor Neena Mitter
  • National food waste research centre appoints global leader
  • Industry excited by new Agtech and Logistics Hub

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February 2021 edition

  • Hotter, drier, CRISPR: editing for climate change
  • Indigenous heritage and biodiversity expert to help lead Australia’s bush foods industry
  • Mungbeans unmasked
  • Critically endangered macadamia species becomes a plant supermodel
  • Talented young meat and livestock scientists show vision, passion for the industry
  • Designer root systems to maintain durum wheat yields in drought

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January 2021 edition

  • Cracking a tough nut for macadamia growers
  • Improving farm animal welfare - what's it worth?
  • Fusarium Wilt of Banana, a Recurring Threat to Global Banana Production
  • Combining genomic and metagenomic predictions increases accuracy
  • Orange Capsicums on the menu for long-term eye health
  • One week behind the scenes of PhycoHealth
  • Pain relief more common practice

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Innovation in Ag 2020 editions and stories

November 2020 edition

Most viewed stories of 2020
  • Post-pandemic brave new world of agriculture
  • Plum pickings: ancient fruit ripe for modern plates
  • Rewiring plant reproduction for higher seed yields
  • Putting a future avocado apocalypse on ice
  • Wagyu beef passes the taste test of science
  • Costly pig lung disease puzzle solved
Animal Science highlights
  • Blueprint to more productive cattle herds
  • Buffalo fly faces Dengue nemesis
Crop Science highlights
  • Science helps farms adapt to drought
  • Queensland research makes breakthrough in boosting sorghum protein content
Horticultural Science highlights
  • Macadamia tree shaking replaces fungicides in eliminating spread of costly nut disease
  • Avocado research trial targets high yields
Food and Nutrition Science highlights
  • Creating a science-based provenance for Australian food
  • New research finds Australian pork flavour signature
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October 2020 edition

  • QAAFI Director appointed
  • ‘Can do’ science creates an agricultural research powerhouse
  • Future food and the art of plant mechanics
  • Waiter there’s a (black soldier) fly in my soup
  • Queensland Science making a difference
  • Buffalo fly faces Dengue nemesis

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September 2020 edition

  • Putting a future avocado apocalypse on ice
  • Secret of plant dietary fibre structure revealed
  • Blueprint to more productive cattle herds
  • Purple sweet corn - naturally nutritious
  • Potential to expand horticultural industries in Northern Australia
  • Understanding the physiological responses of pulses to abiotic stress 
  • Designer roots for Australian wheat

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August 2020 edition

  • Post-pandemic brave new world of agriculture
  • Wagyu beef passes the taste test of science
  • Genetic link between cattle temperament and autism
  • Macadamia tree shaking replaces fungicides in eliminating spread of costly nut disease
  • COVID-19 positive Australians urged to participate in study
  • Women in Science podcast
  • Sorghum for 2050

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July 2020 edition

  • Science sweetens native honey health claims
  • Ticked Off: Cracking the code for a cattle tick vaccine
  • Creating a science-based provenance for Australian food
  • Improving avocado fruit quality: evaluation of post-harvest treatments
  • Understanding weed competitive traits in barley
  • With steak and chips, you still need science
  • QAAFI seeks a Director 

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June 2020 edition

  • Rewiring plant reproduction for higher seed yields
  • Orange capsicums on the menu for long-term eye health
  • Preventing a viral banana pandemic
  • Good feed, good milk, good calving: research hones in on cow fertility
  • How to make antimicrobials in pig feed redundant, naturally
  • InterDrought VI Congress proceedings now online
  • QAAFI Annual Report online

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May 2020 edition

  • Plum Pickings: Ancient fruit ripe for modern plates
  • Computer simulations boost efforts to manage wheat quality risks
  • Banana disease research in Costa Rica strengthens Australia’s biosecurity
  • Opinion: There's life at uni in lockdown
  • Combating Pimelea toxicity
  • Kakadu plum value chain
  • Influence of nutrition on milk delivery to new-born calves

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April 2020 edition

  • Costly pig lung disease puzzle solved
  • Science helps farms adapt to drought
  • Broadacre cropping in northern Queensland 
  • Gene editing opens faster, cheaper way to introduce new crop traits
  • Potential exotic virus threats to lucerne seed production in Australia
  • Disease management lifts macadamia industry confidence

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March 2020 edition

  • Queensland research makes breakthrough in boosting sorghum protein content
  • New research finds Australian pork flavour signature 
  • Genetic remix may deliver new all-climate wheat
  • Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: Exploring the genetic options 
  • Nutritional strategies to support productive farming systems
  • QAAFI's flavour chemist and sensory scientist discusses her research 
  • UQ Australia’s top performer in agriculture and environmental science

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February 2020 edition

  • Avocado research trial targets high yields
  • Avocado industry information day
  • Juggling travel, work and a newborn 
  • Consider soil water storage before sowing a grain sorghum crop
  • Modern crop breeding for future food security
  • The hunt for bushfoods in the Kimberley region
  • QAAFI researchers nominated for Queensland women in STEM prize

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January 2020 edition

  • Research revealing how to select cattle for low-quality pastures
  • Integrated weed management program for pigeonpea preserving yield
  • TropAg draws global crowd
  • The Animal Welfare Collaborative launched
  • Opinion: People say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one
  • Our Indigenous foods' global mission
  • Discovering bush foods in East Arnhem Land

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Innovation in Ag 2019 editions and stories

November 2019 edition

  • International Tropical Agriculture Conference
  • Shaping Australia’s food identity
  • A sensory experience of Australian flavour
  • Prof Neena Mitter honoured with fellowship with Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE)
  • Shannon Landmark visits New Zealand as part of Zander McDonald program
  • $35 million for a new research centre to grow Australian agriculture 
  • What would we eat without irrigation?
  • Biological reality and parsimony in crop models

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October 2020 edition

TropAg Conference - special edition 
  • TropAg Media and News
  • Keynote Speakers
  • View Program 
  • View the TROPAG showcase!
  • Full and day registrations 
  • TropAg partners and sponsors

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September 2019 edition

  • Reverse vaccinology to protect cattle against ticks 
  • Australian native foods and provenance of Australian-grown foods under the research spotlight
  • QAAFI researchers shine in UQ’s annual Research Week Awards
  • Keeping the crunch in low-fat potato chips
  • Managing annual ryegrass in chickpea crops
  • Biological fix for nitrogen fertiliser run-off trialled in Far North Queensland
  • Money Tree: Feeding Australia's avocado obsession
  • TropAg 2019 is less than 50 days away. 

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August 2019 edition

  • High-tech sustainable protection for key Australian crops
  • Beefing up against cattle disease
  • Scientists serve up a nutrition revolution
  • QAAFI's Dr Rob Dixon wins NABRC medal
  • Australia's number one summer grain needs a champion
  • Researchers dish up digital avocado
  • Maize Research Highlights Yield Increase Potential
  • Qld genetics researchers aim to help ease selection decisions
  • Early bird registration for TropAg 2019 close on Friday 30 August
  • TropAg speakers discuss the UN Report on climate change and food security

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July 2019 edition

  • Gut friendly bush tucker takes off in Darwin
  • Thirty years of achievement for QAAFI’s sorghum superstar
  • Developing new tick management tools
  • Early sorghum widens window of opportunity
  • National wheat yield prospects poor says researchers
  • Could Tissue Culture Meet Avocado Plant Demand?
  • Understanding household diversity in rural eastern and southern Africa
  • View QAAFI's Annual Report for 2018
  • TropAg 2019 - International Tropical Agriculture Conference
  • Growing Queensland’s agribusiness: Survey
  • View the latest Queensland AgTrends 

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June 2019 edition

  • Speeding breeding and other ways of feeding 10 billion people
  • Cattle sires of the tropical north reveal their genetic secrets
  • Moving policy forward for nanotechnology
  • Wheat myth comes a cropper
  • Native Foods: Gulkula is a growing success
  • Research quantifies effects of increased temperatures on Australian wheat yields
  • Shorthorn breed on show for world congress
  • ‘Speed breeder’ sprints to an award

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May 2019 edition

  • Big genomics data milked to feed the future
  • Climate change risk to beer production 
  • Gympie identified as birthplace of global macadamia industry
  • On-farm impacts of sorghum RD&E spanning 20 years surface from economic analysis
  • Australians come together to improve animal welfare
  • Climate and agricultural innovation on the menu at TropAg 2019
  • Northern genomics project coordinator wins Zanda Award
  • Gene editing for fun and profit: It's a knockout!

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April 2019 edition

  • Genomics expert to lead animal science research at QAAFI
  • Would you like maggots with that?
  • Eggcellent news for egg farmers - Protecting against fowl cholera
  • Just how much does enhancing photosynthesis improve crop yield?
  • New breeding technology draws on genomics, paddock realities and computer power
  • Bloody Bananas: Banana blood disease targeted by Australian and Indonesian researchers
  • Exploring agriculture in Africa - An Ethiopian Road Trip: Camels, Coffee, Monkeys and Sorghum
  • Registration is open for TropAg 2019

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March 2019 edition

  • Minister Kate Jones visits QAAFI

  • Faster avocados!

  • Celebrating International Women's Day 2019

  • Gene-edited sugarcane

  • Honour for QAAFI adjunct, Dr John Dixon

  • Faster food to mitigate climate change

  • World’s premier tropical agriculture conference

  • GM debate: throwing the baby out with the bathwater?

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February 2019 edition

  • Digital agriculture
  • Scientists urged to fight GMO fake news
  • Genomics for optimising livestock farming
  • Northern Australia to investigate feasibility of growing wild rice
  • Keeping smut off Australia’s sporting fields
  • Genes found for increased flour yield
  • Re-inventing plants for future agriculture
  • QAAFI's Dr Lee Hickey on why the world needs faster food 
  • Join us at TropAg2019

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January 2019 edition

  • Climate threat to coffee production
  • ​UQ’s Sorghum research heats up!
  • Funding boost for pig welfare
  • Crawford funds tan spot in wheat research at CIMMYT in Mexico
  • Wheat genes discovered that may enable more flour from grain
  • The bitter truth: Role of bitter-sensing cells in the mouth and gut
  • Dr Joe Eyre and Trevor Philp talk tactical sorghum agronomy
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