Say g'day to FFSCRC at evokeAG
Our new CEO Dr James Krahe and Research & Commercialisation Director Prof. Cordelia Selomulya are representing the FFSCRC at this year's evokeAG in Adelaide. If you're at evokeAG, don't miss this opportunity to catch up with them: drop by Stand 3.
Smart glass prototype trials continue at Western Sydney University
A $3.5m FFSCRC project with Hort Innovation and SME LLEAF Pty Ltd will trial two prototype smart crop coverings on climbing vegetables in WSU’s experimental greenhouse.
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Closing the technology gap to deliver slow-release feed additives to free-ranging ruminants
Most of the world’s cattle, sheep and goats graze freely, often over wide areas – which makes delivering methane-emissions-reducing feed additives a challenge. So Sydney start-up Agrisma Technology has teamed with UNSW encapsulation experts to develop a cost-effective way to deliver such additives to ruminant livestock in the field.
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Key personnel appointed to WA’s soon-to-launch Food Technology Facility
FFSCRC’s flagship ‘Food Technology Facility’ project at FIPWA is gearing up: Fitout of the manufacturing plant is underway, and two outstanding agrifood-biz professionals have been appointed to key FTF roles and are now calling for EOIs for industry-backed R&D.
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WA's 'Food metabolic library' expands: egg signature study paper
Using lipid ‘signatures’ obtained by rapid mass spectrometry, an FFSCRC project team based at Murdoch University has been able to differentiate cage from barn and free-range eggs with an accuracy of 94%, publishing their findings in a leading academic journal.
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VIDEO: Dr Alex Soeriyadi, founder-director of LLEAF Pty Ltd
Hear Sydney-based agripreneur Alex Soeriyadi, an industry partner in the FFSCRC’s ‘Smart glass’, ‘Glasshouse films’ and ‘Methane reduction supplements’ projects, discuss his light-spectra-shifting, crop-enhancing agricultural film LLEAF-Red and the trials it is undergoing at Western Sydney University.
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Kezia Yi Ya Hsu, PhD: Developing a framework for sustainable city planning
Could the increasing volume of floorspace in Sydney’s CBD be gainfully re-purposed to encompass a mix of uses, including agrifood production? UNSW PhD and FFSCRC top-up scholar Yi-Ya Hsu’s research will create a tool urban planners and policymakers can use to develop strategic mixed-use plans offering greater sustainability.
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