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Farm Safety

National Farm Safety WeekNational Farm Safety Week is an annual national campaign focused on promoting safety behaviour and practices and reducing injuries and deaths on Australian farms.With one of the highest fatality rates of any industry in Australia, the agriculture, fisheries and forestry…
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List of export registered establishments

Export registered dairy establishmentsTo ensure compliance with export eligibility requirements, exporters are able to identify registered establishments approved by the department to prepare dairy goods for export.The lists of export registered establishment are available for download below. …
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Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (MALDI-ToF): Its benefits and how it will make a difference

Episode: May 2025Presenters: Chris Nellessen, Principal Mass Spectrometrist, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. Dr Dominie Wright, Principal Laboratory Scientist, Diagnostics and Laboratory Services, Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, WA.Summary: Chris…
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Australian Plague Locust Commission: New and old technology, innovations and lessons learnt during the recent desert locust upsurge 2019-2022

Episode: Sept 2024Presenters: Heath McRae, Deputy Director and Operations Manager, Australian Plague Locust Commission.Summary: Heath discussed the Desert Locust upsurge in Africa in 2019-2022, and whilst there are differences in Desert Locust and Australian Plague Locust biology and behaviour…
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Biosecurity Commons: Online, Open-Access & Sharable Risk Analytics for estimating and managing biosecurity risk

Episode: March 2025Presenters: Dr James Camac, Senior Research Fellow and Chief Investigator, CEBRA and the University of Melbourne.Summary: James presented an overview of Biosecurity Commons Australia, an open-access, cloud-based platform for modelling and analysing biosecurity risk and response,…
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Being responsive and agile in a changing environment – Insights into the updated National Priority Plant Pests (NPPP)

Episode: April 2025Presenters: Dr Susie Collins, Assistant Secretary, Plant Health Policy, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.Summary: Priority pest lists, like the National Priority Plant Pests (NPPP), aim to raise awareness of the threats Australia faces from plant pests and…
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Genomics assisted plant pathogen surveillance; Disease management strategies; Wheat blast research

Episode: Oct 2024Presenters: Dr Thorsten Langner, Independent Research Group Leader from the Max Planck Institute for Biology, Germany.Summary: In the webinar we heard from Grains Research and Development Corporation visiting fellow Dr Thorsten Langner, who spoke about the work his research group…
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ACPPO Webinar Series

The ACPPO Webinar series, hosted by Australian Chief Plant Protection Officer Dr Gabrielle Vivian-Smith showcase plant health research, innovation, and biosecurity initiatives; fostering collaboration between the department, plant health stakeholders and the community.
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Climate Services for Agriculture

Farmers and their advisors need local climate predictions to better plan for future climate variability. That’s why the Future Drought Fund is investing in the Climate Services for Agriculture (CSA) program.Delivered by the Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO, the program gives farmers better climate…
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