Image: Tastilux® precision-fermented fat, by Nourish Ingredients
Wednesday, 25 Jun 2025
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While attending the Asia-Pacific Agrifood Innovation Summit in Singapore last November, Victoria Taylor, GAICD, Sam Perkins and I took some time out to try cultured meat – in this case Vow’s cultured Japanese quail parfait – at one of Singapore’s great food-experience restaurants.

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Rice
Wednesday, 04 Jun 2025
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The latest monthly update from AFII Director Owen Atkin

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sheep grazing under solar panels
Wednesday, 28 May 2025
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The Agrifood Innovation Institute will support up to six ANU students (undergraduate or postgraduate) to attend the National Renewables in Agriculture Conference in Bendigo on 23 July 2025.

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Wheat in the field
Wednesday, 07 May 2025
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At the beginning of April, I attended the annual editorial meeting of independent plant science journal New Phytologist. New Phytologist is one of the world’s highest ranked plant science journals – I have been an editor for the journal since 2007.

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ABARES Conference 2025
Thursday, 03 Apr 2025
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March provided the opportunity to connect with colleagues from Australia and the UK at the annual ABARES (Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics) Outlook Conference.

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Bob Furbank
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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Plant breeders can now make predictions about the crops they are growing using computer modelling based on images from space. It sounds futuristic, but this is a reality for some canola breeders in Australia and Mexico following work done by researchers at The Australian National University.

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evokeAg 2025 Group
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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We asked the AFII team their key takeaways from evokeAG 2025.

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VEP immersion week
Thursday, 27 Feb 2025
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Last week, I attended evokeAG in Brisbane, along with Anne-Sophie Dielen and four ANU students. evokeAG is an annual event where industry, government and research institution stakeholders come together to explore and debate innovations in the agrifood sector.

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Stephen Trowell, PPB
Friday, 21 Feb 2025
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The dairy industry is worth close to one trillion dollars globally. But with $150 billion worth of dairy wasted each year before it gets to the consumer, its contribution to greenhouse gas emissions is unnecessarily high.

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