New research in protected cropping using medicinal cannabis by La Trobe University is aiming to develop Australia’s agricultural industry and establish an Australian supply chain for medicinal cannabis. The project recently received $5m in funding from the Australian Government’s Regional ...

Expanding the existing global network of farmers and researchers who connect using on-farm experimentation (OFE) could help transform the agricultural industry and solve some of its toughest challenges, a Curtin University-led study has found. OFE is a big data approach to ...

The Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACOLA) report released this week identifies and discusses challenges critical to ensuring Australia’s agricultural industry remains competitive in the future. While Australian farmers have a reputation for being among the most “efficient primary producers in ...

Sydney's Hawkesbury region has been fertile since 1891. Now, its getting a new, agricultural lease on life, and making Australia's food more secure in the process. WSU's state-of-the-art National Vegetable Protected Cropping Centre, located at its Hawkesbury campus, is the first of its ...

When an ex-Australian Coal Association chairman is afraid of climate change, you know you should be especially so. In Ian Dunlop’s report, Disaster Alley: Climate Change, Conflict & Risk, he argues our political and corporate leaders have failed Australia and, ...

Helping to ensure the 2 billion people expected to be added to the world’s population by 2050 have enough food is just one of the challenges set to be addressed by a new Centre of Excellence in Plant Biology research ...