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Interested to know how Australian RDCs are collaborating to future proof Australian Ag? 🚀 As Australian agriculture navigates new pressures and opportunities, three research themes – biosecurity, carbon, and workforce – have emerged as critical priorities to future-proof the sector, ensuring sustainable growth and market access. For each of these themes, sit down to discover how Australia's RDCs are collaborating to discover innovative solutions to manage and address these key issues: 👉 Biosecurity (with Hort Innovation, Wine Australia and LiveCorp - Australian Livestock Export Corporation) 👉 Carbon (with Dairy Australia, FRDC - Fisheries Research and Development Corporation, Australian Pork Limited). 👉 Workforce (with Cotton Research and Development Corporation, Wine Australia and Hort Innovation). Read the full article below 👇

✨ Meet the team: David Lord ✨ First off the rank is our longest standing AgriFutures growAG team member and familiar face David Lord! Get to know a bit more about David: 👉 What is your role?  Senior Manager, Customer & Growth, growAG (Acting) 👉 How long have you been in the growAG team?  4 years 👉 Where did you work prior to growAG?  ACIL ALLEN Consulting, Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) and Independent Consultants Australia Network (ICAN). 👉 What’s your favourite part about the role?  Working with innovators trying to solve the most challenging issues facing Agriculture. Their ideas, their drive, their appetite for risk, the hustle and the thirst for finding people to partner with.  👉 What’s your favourite ecosystem event?  AgriFutures evokeAG, because it's ours AND it genuinely is awesome. But Beef Australia / Beef Week is such an experience, with boxing fights and tech yards and pitch in the paddock. It's fun, but most importantly brings so many cattle producers into one room. 👉 Where would you find me outside work?  At the park with my kids, at restaurant with my wife, at the pub with my mates, in the yards with my cows. If you would like to get in touch, connect with David on LinkedIn or enquire via the link in the comments below 👇

🏆 Meet the 3 Australian Startups nominated for The Earthshot Prize 2025 🏆 Prince William launched The Earthshot Prize in 2020 to discover, accelerate and scale extraordinary solutions to repair the planet. And for the first time, they've enlisted AgriFutures Australia to help 🌏 We're excited to announce after a highly competitive application process, the 3 finalists to be nominated for next year's prize: 👉 Rainstick 👉 PlasmaLeap Technologies 👉 BlueCarbonLab To read more about each of these organisations and this opportunity, the full article below 👇

Interested to know what’s been happening the last month in agritech and innovation? 🚀 Look no further, the monthly wrap is designed to bring to you the latest industry news and trends in our agritech ecosystem. Here's the latest: 👉 Opportunity feature: PhaseFoam Limited is seeking industry partners to trial applications across agriculture and logistics for their heat-absorption technology. 👉 Research feature: Meat & Livestock Australia opportunity for further research into delivery methods for greenhouse gas suppressants. 👉 Upcoming event: WA Agtech Meetup: CEO Reverse pitch & showcase. An impressive lineup featuring Wayne Crofts, Craig McLure, Tom Puddy, Stuart Gunzburg, Glenn Butcher, and AgriFutures evokeAG groundbreaker Alex Montanari on their biggest challenges and innovation interests. 👉 Story spotlight: Hort Innovation and Artesian (Alternative Investments), launch of the world's first horticulture-focused venture capital fund. To read more on each of these topics. Links in the comments below 👇

Are you a tech solution provider? 💡 German company KRONE GROUP is seeking tech solutions to level-up their global farm machinery range 🚀 Step one in a customer-first approach to innovation is to understand the challenges customers face. KRONE GROUP settled on 3 core focus areas: 1. Tech and solutions that make machines better. 2. In the field precision agriculture that deliver high-quality data. 3. Collaboration We're excited to be partnering with KRONE to find agtech startups who can help propel the next generation of KRONE innovation. Read the full story below 👇

✨ Meet the team ✨ With many new exciting local and global opportunities, our team has continued to grow! As a result, we have many new and familiar faces as part of our team. Over the course of the next few weeks, we look forward to sharing a little bit about each of our team members. So, you have the opportunity to: 👉 get to know our team, 👉 what each team members role is, 👉 previous experience and 👉 how to get in touch if you'd like to connect. We're lucky to work with such a passionate and supportive team and look forward to continuing to share our knowledge and expertise with our broader ecosystem. Pictured from left to right: Rebecca Bradford, Elizabeth Cameron, Amelia Cooper, Harriet Coutts, Alex Bundock, Jessica Hardie, Nicolette Roberts and Annabel Rodgers. Absent: David Lord, Harriet Mellish and Noah Tasker.

A new ABARES report shows almost $3 billion was invested in Australian agricultural R & D last financial year, and over 10 years that’s expected to generate about $24 billion in return to farmers. 🚀   AgriFutures growAG is home more than 3300 research projects from RDCs, universities and private entities.     We’ve crunched the numbers and found this year’s three most visited research pages – showing that from emerging industries to established farming systems R&D brings benefits: 👉 Quick and simple test for wine grape growers (Wine Australia). 👉 Protecting Australia’s growing seaweed industry (University of Adelaide and FRDC - Fisheries Research and Development Corporation). 👉 Picking the most productive dairy pastures (Dairy Australia, DataGene Limited, Meat & Livestock Australia and Pasture Trials Network). Read the full article to find out about this game-changing research 👇

Interested to know how listening to plants can transform fertiliser efficiency? ☘ Imagine a future where plants can “tell” us exactly what nutrients they need and when. Far from science fiction – it’s a frontier of agricultural innovation that ICL Group, a global leader in specialty minerals, is exploring. 👉 Hear from industry expert; ICL Group’s Open Innovation Lead, Ziv Kohav. “We’re interested in participating in the conversation between plants and microorganisms – in subtle ways to prepare the plant, and its microbiome for future conditions, like drought. It’s about convincing microorganisms to do something that we want them to do.”     👉 How? Ziv explains, “You can actually talk with the microorganisms in the soil because they communicate with each other and the plant through signalling molecules, similar to how humans communicate with each other.”  💡 Success story: ICL Group and Pluri Biotech’s partnership 💡 ICL’s approach to partnerships is about more than just collaboration – it’s about strategic alignment and shared innovation. Its partnership with Pluri Biotech, a cutting-edge 3D cell expansion tech company, is a great example. To read the full story, visit growAG 👇 #Innovation #SustainableAgriculture #AgTech #Partnership #PlantNutrition #Biotechnology #ICL | Tammy Sharon 🇮🇱 | Ziv Kohav |

Are you up to date with the latest in agrifood and innovation? 🌏 Our latest newsletter is out tomorrow! ✉ This bi-monthly update is a special edition, with 2 new features. Make sure you sign up, so you don't miss out! Featuring: 👉 Future-proofing Australian ag (Hort Innovation, Wine Australia, Charles Sturt University, LiveCorp - Australian Livestock Export Corporation, Meat & Livestock Australia, Dairy Australia, Australian Pork Limited and Cotton Research and Development Corporation). 👉 A researchers guide to Australia's ag and foodtech ecosystem (Beanstalk AgTech). 👉 Listening to plants: ICLs innovation challenge (ICL Group). 👉 4 NEW opportunities (FRDC - Fisheries Research and Development Corporation, Meat & Livestock Australia, SpayVac for Wildlife and FlexFarming). 👉 New website content. 👉 Catch up with us (Agri-Food Tech Expo Asia and AGTECH24). Sign up via the link in the comments below 👇

Are you a student, passionate about the future of Australian agriculture? 🐮 Applications for the 2025 AgriFutures Australia Horizon Scholarship Program are now open. 👉 In partnership with industry sponsors, the Horizon Scholarship is an initiative supporting students enrolled in full time study at an Australian university. To be eligible students can be studying an agriculture related degree. 👉 Offering a $5,000 bursary per year, an annual workshop, industry placements, and plenty of personal and professional development opportunities. The scholarship is designed to help you accelerate your career and broaden your horizons. ⏰ Applications close: Friday, 10 January 2025 ⏰ To find out more information or to apply. Link in the comments below 👇 #agriculture #HZN2025 #horizons2025 #scholarships #unistudents