Innovation in Ag - editions content

September 2025 edition

• Calf Alive delivers flexibility for northern cattle producers

• Co-designing biology and technology unlocks automated plant breeding

• Health goals bring Pacific breadfruit to UQ

• Young Tall Poppy recognised for outreach for agricultural research

• Building confidence in food from farm to fork 

• Plant breeding to address climate change and eliminate disease 

• Breeding better macadamia trees for Australian growers

• Curation of multi-source genotypic and phenotypic data for tree crops

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August 2025 edition

• From waste to energy - using weeds as a source of biofuel

• A vision for adapted livestock development in Africa

• Dodging banana diseases with R&D investment is of value  

• Celebrating the life's work of Professor Graeme Hammer

• Foot-and-mouth disease could devastate Australia's agricultural industry

• Vaccinations defend the nation’s vegetables

• Register now for TropAg before the early bird discount ends

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July 2025 edition

• Maxing out chemical-free crop protection with dsRNAmax

• Sub-secrets revealed in robot-driven farm research

• Call to rethink food nutrition labelling

• Next Gen QAAFI researchers secure coveted Industry Fellowships 

• Enhancing nodulation in legumes through targeted editing of regulatory peptides

• Register for TropAg - Australia's premier agriculture and food research conference 

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June 2025 edition

• Pioneer varieties for legumes for Australian farms

• QAAFI's new Centre Director in Horticultural Science

• Reawakening ancient grains

• Tail hair is the key to predicting performance in cattle

• Building the capacity of farmers to create sustainable and vibrant farming landscapes

• How to recentre the 'farming' in vertical farming 

• Sorghum in scope: high protein, gene editing and nitrogen dynamics 

• TropAg symposia program taking shape

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May 2025 edition

• Tackling a mystery that's killing blueberries in the field

• Egg injection leads to healthier chicks

• Global partnership on wheat adaptation

• Researchers to take healthy oats beyond breakfast

• QAAFI's new Centre Director in Animal Science

• TropAg program taking shape

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April 2025 edition

• Potent brain potential in Queen Garnet plum 

• Ending hunger, sustaining the planet: the path to universal food security

• Building soil carbon with beneficial microbes

• Organic food isn't pesticide-free - or better for the planet 

• Texture toolkit is a recipe for food success 

• UQ architecture research reveals how urban families could grow produce in apartments. 

• Future foods using ancient techniques: Fermentation, sensory and beyond 

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March 2025 edition

• Sites needed to trial tactics for troublesome weed  

• Igniting the future in agriculture 

• Translating tissue culture in avocado cultivars 

• Genetic and genomic approaches to vigour management in macadamia 

• TropAg 2025 registrations open

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