by Monash Lens | Apr 21, 2021 | Agriculture, Environment
We hear from Victoria Haritos, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Monash University, on how food waste reduction hinges on two things: innovation and investment. In late September, Dino Boratto made the tough decision to destroy a crop of bunched spinach...
by Darren Baguley | Apr 19, 2021 | Agriculture
Little more than a year after bushfires destroyed 85,000 kilometres of fencing, floods have wreaked further havoc but one thing is certain – Australian farmers are building back better. The bushfires of 2019/20’s ‘Black Summer’ were among the most destructive in...
by Susan Gough Henly | Mar 23, 2021 | Agriculture
Despite increasingly unpredictable weather patterns, devastating crop loss and strangling financial pressures, farmers who take a holistic approach are delivering results year on year. They’ll tell you that the secret is in the soil. Charles Massy is a...
by Virginia Tressider | Feb 10, 2021 | Agriculture, Technology
A new designer fruit fly paves the way for scientists to replace disease-carrying mosquitoes with harmless, genetically modified versions. Normally, the news of a new species of fruit fly would be interesting only for entomologists. But a new species recently...
by LJ Charleston | Feb 4, 2021 | Agriculture
The Australian strawberry industry has been forced to withstand several challenges during the pandemic. Yet, there is plenty of positive news to keep farmers hopeful for the future. For most of us, the sweet and succulent strawberry is a treat too great to resist....
by Brian Atwell | Jan 28, 2021 | Agriculture
As median temperatures steadily rise, Australia’s cotton crops face a new challenge every season. The Atwell Lab at Macquarie University’s Department of Biological Sciences is developing genetically modified cotton crops to help them survive the heat. We are all...
