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Pork CRC students making a mark

CRC for High Integrity Australian Pork supported Animal Science Honours student, Danica Evans, who recently received First Class Honours for her work and topped her year, is now doing the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, also at Murdoch University.

Jun 28, 2017

Videos

A step forward to making crops tolerate drought

QUT researchers are part of an international consortium of researchers whose work hopes to future-proof crops against the impacts of global climate change.

May 17, 2017

crops

Malaria chemicals kill weeds too

Plant biologists at The University of Western Australia have revealed the relationship between plants and the parasite that causes malaria is close enough to mean many antimalarial drugs are effective herbicides.

May 12, 2017

IREC and MI team up for automation pilot project

The Irrigation Research & Extension Committee (IREC) and Murrumbidgee Irrigation (MI) are teaming up to deliver a pilot automation trial project for irrigation supply channels, which has the potential to be expanded across the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area (MIA).

Apr 20, 2017

Soil & Land

Radiocarbon study provides insight

ANSTO has contributed to research that indicated agriculture affects the organic carbon storage in subsoil up to one metre and challenged the concept that subsoil is a stable repository of organic carbon.

Mar 30, 2017

Australia’s wheat yields stalled

Australia’s average wheat yields, which had more than tripled due to technological advances between 1900 and 1990, did not increase from 1990 to 2015.

Feb 10, 2017

Soil & Land

Popping the cork on sparkling wine research

Tasmanian wine producers will sample and provide tasting notes on sparkling wines produced as part of a Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture (TIA) research project looking at the impact of vineyard treatments on sparkling wine characteristics.

Nov 7, 2016

Crops

Designer rice could help beat diabetes, cancer and obesity

Scientists have discovered a way to increase the production of resistant starch in rice, which could have beneficial health consequences for more than half of the world’s population.

Oct 22, 2016

crops

Horticulture

When cabbages get stressed they adopt human solutions

Plants get stressed and send defensive signals in the same way humans do, researchers from The University of Queensland have found.

Oct 11, 2016

horticulture

Water & Climate

Victorian CO2 bug research on the world stage

Victorian research on the effects of carbon dioxide (CO2) levels on pest insects will be revealed at the International Congress of Entomology in America.

Sep 26, 2016

climate

Crops

Research showing early sowing pays off

Pairing long fallowing with the early sowing of wheat is proving to be a successful combination when it comes to maximising crop yield potential.

Sep 21, 2016

crops

Sunraysia flies blow honeybee pollination trend

A study commissioned by Horticulture Innovation Australia (Hort Innovation) and its partners has shown that blow flies in the Sunraysia region are the chief pollinators of avocados, despite bee hives regularly featuring in orchards.

Sep 13, 2016

horticulture

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