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  • Healthy and sustainable foods in Asia: what are the opportunities?
    Industry Insights, 08 Nov 2023
    Healthy and sustainable foods in Asia: what are the opportunities?

    AEGIC research will increase the Australian industry’s understanding of health and sustainability drivers within its value chains. Ultimately, this helps align Australian grain and systems with future demand in the most-profitable markets. Insights into consumer food product labelling trends will help the Australian grains industry respond to expected future demand in South-East Asia for products with strong health and sustainability claims.

  • Whole grains for the whole family
    Industry Insights, 25 Sep 2023
    Whole grains for the whole family

    From supporting development in young children to reducing the risk of chronic diseases, wholegrains benefit the whole family. Wholegrains provide more than 26 powerful nutrients and compounds crucial for maintaining health at any age.

  • Podcasts capture a mobile grower audience
    Industry Insights, 22 Sep 2023
    Podcasts capture a mobile grower audience

    GRDC has produced hundreds of podcasts since 2018, many of them highly technical and focused on promoting new research or addressing a specific seasonal challenge for growers. In 2022, it embarked on a podcast with a difference, commissioning a series based on discussions after the Regional Cropping Solutions Network final dinner. The premise was to devote each episode to an individual with expertise in a different sector of the grains industry in the southern region, and delve into each of them as a person discussing their career history, influences and what motivates them.

  • Wholegrains promote a healthier future
    Industry Insights, 31 Aug 2023
    Wholegrains promote a healthier future

    A major risk factor for non-communicable diseases and early mortality is a diet low in wholegrains. Despite the Australian Dietary Guidelines recommending the inclusion of four to six serves of grain foods daily, mainly from wholegrains, most Australians do not eat the recommended amount.

  • Why grain quality laboratory accreditation matters
    Industry Insights, 29 Aug 2023
    Why grain quality laboratory accreditation matters

    The Australian Export Grains Innovation Centre Sydney has long supported the Australian grains industry with highly regarded analytical services that help underpin consumer confidence in grain food products. Playing a hidden but vital role is the National Association of Testing Authorities – the authority that gives AEGIC Sydney its official laboratory accreditation.

  • Computer vision verifies grain identity
    Industry Insights, 08 Aug 2023
    Computer vision verifies grain identity

    Starting with the barley grain supply chain for the malt industry, computer vision technology is bringing improvement in variety identification to Australia. Accurate, reliable and efficient grain quality assessment is the mandate for ZoomAgri, a company supported by the GRDC’s GrainInnovate program.

  • Disease surveillance automated
    Industry Insights, 07 Aug 2023
    Disease surveillance automated

    GrainInnovate investments are bringing new tools and capabilities to the Australian grains industry. BioScout is a startup example from the investment program. It is an automated disease sensor which can provide real-time fungal disease risk profiles for improved disease management.

  • Improved frost and heat tools from big data
    Industry Insights, 01 Aug 2023
    Improved frost and heat tools from big data

    The power of coupling on-farm data with remote sensing and spatial modelling is is being applied through a bold new GRDC project to better support growers in managing frost and heat constraints. The Frost and Heat Management Analytics project brings together many collaborators across Australia including three startup companies supported by GrainInnovate.

  • Microbes building soils and new business
    Industry Insights, 31 Jul 2023
    Microbes building soils and new business

    By harnessing the power of microbes an innovative startup is partnering with growers to tackle climate change. Loam Bio has developed a novel business model to connect their technology to growers, supported through investment from GrainInnovate.

  • Turning variable-rate data into paddock-scale research
    Industry Insights, 27 Jul 2023
    Turning variable-rate data into paddock-scale research

    Learn how Bayer Crop Science is using the services of GrainInnovate startup Laconik to conduct improved on-farm experimentation by placing trials across paddocks in ‘swarms’ to capture spatial variability. The results generate higher degree of grower confidence in the field performance of a product and its return on investment

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