Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation

Centre for Crop Science

  • Wheat crop outlook for May 2017 (Queensland, Australia)

    Published on: 4 May 2017
    At present, this early in the winter crop growing season, starting soil water conditions and the seasonal rainfall outlook indicate that chances are similar to climatology (50:50) for an above average wheat yield during the 2017 wheat-growing season across most of Queensland.
  • Sorghum-field-in-Queensland

    Beyond MR Buster: Trials show upside to sorghum yields

    Published on: 24 April 2017
    New data from on-farm trials conducted across NSW and Queensland has the potential to help growers lift the yields of sorghum by providing guidelines on how to match hybrids and management that better suit local, and expected seasonal outlooks.

  • Crops primed for protection without chemicals

    Published on: 24 April 2017
    A breakthrough in agricultural nanotechnology could help reduce food production losses to pests and pathogens, without the toxicity impacts of current chemical sprays.

  • As global food demand rises, climate change is hitting our staple crops

    Published on: 20 March 2017
    Climate change and extreme weather events are already impacting our food, from meat and vegetables, right through to wine. In our series on the Climate and Food, we’re looking at what this means for the food chain. The Conversation

  • Development of herbicide-tolerant cassava via a high-throughput chemical mutagenesis platform

    21 March 2017 12:00pm–1:00pm
     
    in Science Seminars
    Dr Emily McCallum from ETH Zurich in Switzerland will present "Development of herbicide-tolerant cassava via a high-throughput chemical mutagenesis platform", in QAAFI's Seminar Series on 21 Tuesday March 2017.

  • Beyond the black box – using biological insight and crop models to enhance plant improvement

    14 March 2017 12:00pm–1:00pm
     
    in Science Seminars
    QAAFI's Director of the Centre for Plant Science, Professor Graeme Hammer, will present "Beyond the black box – using biological insight and crop models to enhance plant improvement" on 14 March in QAAFI's Science Seminar Series.

  • QAAFI: Where to next?

    28 February 2017 12:00pm–1:00pm
     
    in Science Seminars
    As QAAFI enters its seventh year of operation, what are the key challenges facing the organisation to meet the research priorities of our stakeholders? Where will the growth be in crops, horticulture and food sciences? How can QAAFI’s global research collaborations deliver benefits to Queensland, and tropical and subtropical production systems in northern Australia? What are the challenges and opportunities to meet the key challenges of reduced R&D funding, climate stressors, technology and consumer drivers over the coming years? Join Professor Robert Henry, Director of QAAFI, for the first of QAAFI’s 2017 research seminar series.
  • Bio-Clay spray

    'BioClay' a ground - breaking discovery for world food security

    Published on: 11 January 2017
    BioClay – an environmentally sustainable alternative to chemicals and pesticides – could be a game-changer for crop protection.
  • QAAFI's Summer Grains Field Walk 2017

    QAAFI's Summer Grains Field Walk 2017

    Tour
    Join the free walk at the Macalister field trial, Queensland.
  • Ultra narrow rows ramp up competition on weeds

    Ultra narrow rows ramp up competition on weeds

    Published on: 14 December 2016
    The higher rainfall across many grain growing regions in 2016 has provided farmers with more opportunities for summer cropping. But, weeds also stand to gain from the additional soil moisture, putting additional pressure on summer fallow spraying programs.

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