Farming Archives - CSIROscope

Dual-purpose crops bring drought resilience to farming

Growing crops both grazed by livestock and grown to harvest is helping this farmer weather the drought.

Have yourself a sustainable little Christmas

Give our planet a gift. Make your festive season more environmentally-friendly this year. We've got some tips to help you have a sustainable Christmas.

Planting early helps farmer weather the drought

Queensland farmer Daniel Wegener is using a technique we developed called early sowing to make the best of the current drought.

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Prawn stars: Five facts about Aussie prawns

New technology is allowing our farmers to grow even more prawns, and reduce the need to import prawns to meet consumer demand.

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Key to salmon success is in the genes

Our scientists selected key genetic traits in Tasmanian salmon to help industry grow the best fish. Aussie-grown salmon grows faster without the downsides.

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What a load of bull: auctioning cattle semen for charity

Don't adjust your screen - this isn't the Betoota Advocate. We're auctioning off 5000 ‘straws’ of bull semen, all in the name of charity.

To feed the world in 2050 we need to build the plants that evolution didn’t

Synthetic biology lets us explore places where evolution has never gone, to help meet humanity's food needs in a future shaped by climate change.

Nitrogen fertilisers are incredibly efficient, but they make climate change a lot worse

Measurements and modelling have found nitrous oxide emissions, a greenhouse gas 265 times more potent than carbon dioxide, are significantly higher than previously reported.

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Breakthrough in hunt for deadly cereal killer

A cereal killer is on the loose. A team of internal experts are on a mission to uncover the origins of the world’s deadliest strain of cereal rust disease.

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Plants uncovered: extreme serendipity in polyploidy

New research shows how complex the genomes of plants really are. This research can help us grow better and more sustainable crops.

Game on: using augmented reality in prawn farming

We’re using gaming platforms, sensor technologies and next-gen data interaction techniques to help prawn farmers make decisions. Check out what we did at the recent D61+Live to demo the tech.

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What’s made of legumes but sizzles on the barbie like beef? Australia’s new meat alternative

Australian supermarkets and fast food chains will soon be stocking a homegrown meat alternative that tastes and feels like meat and even sizzles on the barbecue.

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