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Innovation in Ag - editions content

Click here to view all 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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Click here to view all 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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