A decision-support tool is helping growers to manage their irrigation and fertiliser use

Meet Brett Squibb, apple grower from Tasmania

14 November 2022

Advancing the delivery of national mapping applications and tools (AV21006)

This project will further position Australia’s avocado industry as world leaders in the sector, by delivering growers commercial tools for improved yield forecasting and mapping from the orchard block to the national scale.

30 May 2024

• Final research report
• Completed project
• Technology

Opportunities to improve labour use efficiency through automation and improved management practices (RB21003)

This investment identified opportunities to improve labour use efficiency in the rubus industry through automation and improved management practices.

7 April 2023

• Final research report
• Raspberry and Blackberry Fund
• Completed project
• Technology

Recycling spent mushroom substrate (SMS) for fertiliser in a circular economy (MU21006)

This project investigated the potential of developing a spent mushroom substrate (SMS) circular economy by improving the value proposition of SMS for the end-user (primarily grain growers).

20 May 2024

• Final research report
• Mushroom Fund
• Completed project
• Technology
• Outcome 2: Industry supply, productivity and sustainability

Developing agri-tech solutions for the Australian apple industry (AP16005)

This project investigated technology to ultimately support variable rate autonomous spraying in apple crops.

2 June 2022

• Final research report
• Completed project
• R&D
• Outcome 2: Industry supply, productivity and sustainability

Novel microbiome technologies to increase profitability for Australian horticulture (AS19004)

This investment is tasked with developing and deploying new microbiome technologies that will increase the yield, and therefore profitability, of annual and perennial Australian horticultural crops.

8 April 2022

• Ongoing project

Study to review automation of banana de-handing (BA21005)

This project examined whether automating banana de-handing is feasible, and provided the banana industry with an understanding of what would be required to progress towards automation.

26 September 2022

• Banana Fund
• Technology
• Outcome 1: Industry supply, productivity and sustai

Feasibility study into opportunities for high-technology horticulture production in urban environments (HA19005)

This project provided recommendations on how the Australian horticulture industry can realise opportunities surrounding high technology horticulture production in urban environments and build the capacity of this sector.

12 January 2022

• Potato – Processing Fund
• Potato – Fresh Fund
• Papaya Fund
• Almond Fund
• Apple and Pear Fund
• Avocado Fund
• Banana Fund
• Cherry Fund
• Chestnut Fund
• Citrus Fund
• Custard Apple Fund
• Dried Grape Fund
• Dried Tree Fruit Fund
• Lychee Fund
• Macadamia Fund
• Mango Fund
• Melon Fund
• Mushroom Fund
• Nursery Fund
• Olive Fund
• Onion Fund
• Passionfruit Fund
• Persimmon Fund
• Pistachio Fund
• Pineapple Fund
• Processing Tomato Fund
• Prune Fund
• Pyrethrum Fund
• Raspberry and Blackberry Fund
• Strawberry Fund
• Summerfruit Fund
• Sweetpotato Fund
• Table Grape Fund
• Turf Fund
• Vegetable Fund
• Completed project
• Blueberry Fund
• Nashi Fund
• R&D

Novel glass projects (VG15038 and VG16070)

This project collaborated with another investment to improve energy-efficient design and energy use in vegetable greenhouses.

2 December 2021

• Final research report
• Completed project
• Farm productivity, resource use & management
• R&D
• Outcome 1: Industry supply, productivity and sustai

Driving ag-tech adoption across Australia (AS20007)

This investment is transforming the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries research facility at Gatton into a ‘Smart Farm’ that can be used to showcase technology to the horticulture sector.

10 August 2021

• Ongoing project
• Hort Frontiers