National science agency, CSIRO, is calling for applications to join the latest cohort in the India Australia Rapid Innovation Startup Expansion (RISE) Accelerator. This round is inviting start-ups and small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with innovative agritech solutions to apply.

Hort Innovation’s Frontiers investment program is supporting a $41 million tree crop program, bringing together growers and plant scientists to accelerate the development of new almond, apple, citrus, macadamia and mango varieties.

The statutory authority for commercial egg producers, Australian Eggs, has launched a virtual reality biosecurity training tool, aiming to increase the security of egg supply.

At a time when digital innovation is reshaping industries across the board, the food and beverage sector is embracing a technological revolution of its own. Augmented reality (AR) is both enhancing productivity and revolutionising the fabric of how food and beverage companies operate, troubleshoot, and innovate by bridging the gap between the physical and digital worlds. TeamViewer’s Andrew Belger explains how.

With Australia’s food and grocery sector now worth $163 billion, up 11.6 per cent in 2022/23, the Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC) is calling on the federal government to include the country’s largest manufacturing sector in its Future Made in Australia policy.

Developing beverage alcohol markets are set to be the major growth engines in value terms for beverage alcohol over the next five years, spearheaded by India, China, Brazil and Mexico.

One of Australia’s largest and longest-running wine shows, the Sydney Royal Wine Show awards, took place last week – assessing over 1700 wines with a panel of expert judges.

The Source Kitchen, led by Tawnya Bahr and Lucy Allon from Straight To The Source, have introduced the key theme for this year's Fine Food Australia event: “Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose, Recycle, and Rescue”.

The a2 Milk Company has flagged China’s poor economic conditions as a major dampener on the company’sfuture performance. Despite FY24 being a good year, it told the market its pace of revenue growth would be halved, and that its timeline to reach NZ$2 billion was now 2027. The market didn’t hide its feelings, with the share price dropping 17 per cent.  

Submissions on proposed tax changes that would incentivise companies to donate excess food rather than dump it, must be in by close of business TODAY, Tuesday, 20 August. The Incentivising Food Donations to Charitable Organisations Bill 2024 was tabled in the senate by West Australian senator Dean Smith earlier this month.

PepsiCo Australia has donated 70 pallets of oats to hunger relief charity, Foodbank, through food conglomerate Quaker Oats, which PepsiCo acquired in 2001.

Dairy co-op Fonterra is partnering with alternative protein startup, Superbrewed Food, to develop functional biomass protein from Fonterra’s lactose – creating more value from milk.

I’ve always thought that one thing a global food company with 15 billion-dollar brands (as well as all the other clearly poor performing brands) needs is another couple of billion-dollar brands. While Mars scratched that itch by acquiring Kellanova for US$36 billion last week, what else was at play?

The arbitration between The a2 Milk Company and Synlait Milk has been adjourned following the conditional resolution of some of the disputes between the two.

General Mills has appointed Karen Jenkins as its new managing director for Australia and New Zealand. She was sales director ANZ for the last three years and replaces Matt Salter, who is now VP of marketing for General Mills International. 

Melbourne based Starward Distillery has received the Most Awarded International Distillery of the Year title at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition, the second time it has received the award.