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  • Nutritional strategies to support productive farming systems

    Nutritional strategies to support productive farming systems

    Published on: 27 February 2020
    Prof Mike Bell from UQ-QAAFI and DAF's David Lester and Doug Sands discuss if we have successful fertility management systems? Collectively, the findings from this research, backed by the underlying regional trends in soil fertility and the drivers for successful rainfed cropping in our region, provide some useful insights into what are likely to be the critical success factors for future fertiliser management programs.
  • Modern crop breeding for future food security

    Modern crop breeding for future food security

    Farmers around the world have recently experienced significant crop losses due to severe heat and drought. Such extreme weather events and the need to feed a rapidly growing population have raised concerns for global food security. While plant breeding has been very successful and has delivered today’s highly productive crop varieties, the rate of genetic improvement must double to meet the projected future demands. Here we discuss basic principles and features of crop breeding and how modern technologies could efficiently be explored to boost crop improvement in the face of increasingly challenging production conditions.
  • Broome diaries: In Search of Bushfoods in the Kimberley region of Broome

    Broome diaries: In Search of Bushfoods in the Kimberley region of Broome, Western Australia

    Dr Smita Chaliha, is a Research Officer for the Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences at QAAFI. She is originally from the North-eastern state of Assam in India, and has been living in Australia since 2006. She has been working on Australian native foods since 2010. She was also the first PhD student studying the nutritional and bioactive potential of Kakadu plum (Terminalia ferdinandiana), a well know Australian native fruit. This blog documents her experience while on a fieldtrip to the Kimberley regions of Broome, Western Australia from 26 January to 2 February, 2020.
  • QLD research makes breakthrough in boosting sorghum protein content

    Queensland research makes breakthrough in boosting sorghum protein content

    Published on: 13 February 2020
    Researchers from the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation have announced a major breakthrough in lifting the protein content of sorghum using gene editing.
  • Avocado research trial targets high yields

    Avocado research trial targets high yields

    Published on: 11 February 2020
    Avocado farmers could start producing more fruit to keep up with demand once propagation technology, trialled in the Bundaberg Region, is commercialised.
  • Feathertop Rhodes (FTR) grass demands attention to stop seed set

    Feathertop Rhodes (FTR) grass demands attention to stop seed set

    Published on: 5 February 2020
    Feathertop Rhodes grass is quickly becoming one of the biggest weed threats in Australian farming systems, demanding swift and decisive action. QAAFI's Dr Bhagirath Chauhan speaks here about the integrated approach is needed to tackle this weed.
  • Dr Joseph Eyre

    Consider soil water storage before sowing a grain sorghum crop

    Published on: 30 January 2020
    With low crop water availability and high grain prices, growers and advisers are re-evaluating late sowing options for grain sorghum. To support this discussion, experts from the University of Queensland, the University of Southern Queensland and the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries summarise the known effects of late sowing on sorghum productivity, production risks and crop management options.
  • Opinion: People say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one

    Opinion: People say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one

    Opinion piece by Ian Godwin. Climate change has been on all our minds for most of the past two years as we deal with bushfires the size of several European countries, prolonged drought, more regular heatwaves, and lethal floods.
  • Associate Professor Luis Prada e Silva

    Research revealing how to select cattle for low-quality pastures

    Published on: 29 January 2020
    Identifying traits in cattle that allow them to thrive in challenging environments is the aim of new research to assist Australia’s northern cattle producers
  • Selina Fyfe, PhD candidate, Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences QAAFI, The University of Queensland

    Discovering bush foods in East Arnhem Land

    QAAFI PhD student Selina Fyfe shares her experience visiting the Gove community in East Arnhem land as part of her involvement with the ARC Training Centre for Uniquely Australian Foods.
  • Juggling travel, work and a newborn

    Juggling travel, work and a newborn

    Blog post by Shannon Landmark on being awarded the Zanda McDonald Award, Less than 24 hours later she was driving to the hospital to give birth to her son Fred.
  • Richard the teacher

    Our Indigenous foods' global mission

    Published on: 8 January 2020
    We sat, the three of us, by a small cooking fire on the edge of a shimmering wet tidal flat at Carnot Bay about a 90km walk north from Broome … or to be more precise, a 90km walk back to Broome. It was myself, a photographer and a Bardi elder named Richard and we were stuck; our broken-down Land Cruiser bogged to its chassis.
  • Dr Bhagirath Chauhan.

    Integrated weed management program for pigeonpea preserving yield

    Published on: 6 January 2020
    Pigeonpea might not be well known in Australia, but there are more than a billion people in Asia and Africa who eat this dried grain legume in a variety of dishes, and global demand is high.
  • TropAg 2019 crowd

    TropAg draws global crowd

    Published on: 5 January 2020
    Over 800 delegates from 43 different countries attended the TropAg conference in Brisbane in November 2019.
  • Existing herbicides deployed to tackle glyphosate resistant weeds

    Existing herbicides deployed to tackle glyphosate resistant weeds

    Published on: 30 December 2019
    Effective control of glyphosate resistant weeds is proving possible using a mix of existing herbicides, with the new application protocols developed by a five-year national GRDC research initiative.
  • The Animal Welfare Collaborative launched

    The Animal Welfare Collaborative launched

    Published on: 4 December 2019
    A national university led collaborative focussed on improving animal welfare, was officially launched, by The University of Queensland’s Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research) Professor Bronwyn Harch.
  • TropAg Talks podcasts

    TropAg Talks podcasts

    Published on: 29 November 2019
    The podcasts, recorded at the TropAg 2019 conference focus on ‘Shaping the science of tomorrow’ and include various recorded conversations between speakers at the conference on issues across the five program themes including; field crops, horticulture, livestock, nutritious food and an AgFutures stream focused on technology and investment.
    Podcasts by, Anthony Frangi of Pop Up Radio Australia
  • Professor Ian Godwin is the Director of the Centre for Crop Science at QAAFI

    Opinion: What would we eat without irrigation?

    Opinion piece - The Gauge - Professor Ian Godwin is the Director of the Centre for Crop Science at QAAFI at the University of Queensland. He is the author of Good Enough to Eat? Next Generation GM Crops.

  • A sensory experience of Australian flavour

    Published on: 25 November 2019
    In this presentation, Dr Heather Smyth discusses her work researching the human sensory experience of Australian foods, finding new pathways for adding distinctive Australian qualities to our home-grown food and beverage products.
  • Shannon Landmark visits New Zealand as part of Zanda McDonald program

    Shannon Landmark visits New Zealand as part of Zanda McDonald program

    Published on: 25 November 2019
    When 2019 Zanda McDonald Award joint winners Shannon Landmark and Luke Evans visited Omarama last week, it truly was a flying visit.

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