#Agriculture

How Australia can boost the production of grains, while lowering its carbon footprint

Australia is one of the world’s top exporters of grain. Producing it at lower emissions is crucial for global climate action.

Balancing family and agriculture: meet our researcher Dr Jess Hyles

Dr Jess Hyles has successfully combined making a family with building a career as an agricultural scientist.

A vision for the future of Australian agriculture

Together with our partners across government, research, and industry, we've launched three national missions to help Australia realise much of this vision within this decade.

A century of livestock research highlights

We’ve helped create some of Australia’s great innovations in the livestock sector over the past 100 years.

Meet our researcher: Professor Michelle Colgrave

Professor Michelle Colgrave leads our Future Protein team. See how she uses proteomics to improve human health, agriculture and food.

New research: nitrous oxide emissions 300 times more powerful than CO₂ are jeopardising Earth’s future

Agriculture is the dominant cause for the increasing N₂O concentrations. Emissions must be reduced if we hope to stabilise Earth's climate.

Scientists solving Vietnam’s environmental challenges

Australian and Vietnamese researchers are teaming up to tackle Vietnam’s biggest environmental challenges.

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.

Our scientists doing us proud

Two of our recently appointed Australian Academy of Science Fellows tell us about their work helping to create resilient and valuable environments.

Faster food is all about the TraNSIT

Like your food? Reducing transport costs for the agricultural community can benefit all of us.

Phosphates to feed the world

We invented a new smelting process to produce phosphates for fertiliser. Called PyroPhos, it eliminates harmful waste found in other phosphate production processes and creates a valuable by-product which can be used in construction.

Interronauts | CSIRO podcast Ep 22: Purple Earth and plants’ war for the rainbow, and an attack on titan

This episode Jesse talks about early Earth which may have been purple, two new species of tiny jellies, white rice with brown rice benefits, smell-based movie ratings, and the demise of the world's largest individual.