Having spent more than a decade working on incorporating fibre crops into rotations on his central Queensland sugar farm, Joe Muscat knew there was still something missing. The Oakenden farmer had grown kenaf, sunn hemp and industrial hemp to world standards, but wanted to take the product to the next level through processing and marketing.

2013 scholar Joe Muscat discusses fibre crops

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Nuffield Scholar Antony Vagg believes there’s great opportunity in the Australian rice industry to value-add straw rather than burn it - and when he travelled the world in 2013 to investigate further, he found potential solutions in places as far flung as Egypt, the UK and India - listen in to find out more!

2013 scholar Antony Vagg on adding value to rice straw

Paul Green, from Hyden in WA, believes farmers should be getting a better deal when buying agricultural equipment, and so he used a 2013 Nuffield Scholarship to learn more about the economics of machinery manufacturing around the world - listen in to find out more!

2013 scholar Paul Green on the economics of farm machinery manufacturing

Queensland beef producer Kara Knudsen was determined to improve the genetics of her beef herd, but realised to be effective, the techniques used had to be cheap and on a large scale - a 2013 Nuffield Scholarship was the key for her to be able to focus on better ways of accelerating genetic progression through reproductive technologies such as artificial insemination and embryo transfer - listen in to find out more!

2013 scholar Kara Knudsen discusses using genetics to improve cattle profitability

According to South Australian fruit grower Jason Size there’s a real problem in the way stone fruit is marketed, as it is simply categorised as a ‘yellow’ nectarine or a ‘yellow’ peach, rather than specific flavour profiles being marketed. In fact he says there is so much more work to be done on correct flavour profiling in stone fruit, he embarked on a Nuffield Scholarship in 2013 to study the topic - listen in to find out more!

2013 scholar Jason Size on the need to improve marketing of stone fruit flavour profiles

Managing costs are important to all businesses, but in the intensive world of meat chicken production, it’s critical. New South Wales farmer Guy Hebblewhite decided there was a real opportunity to reduce his gas and electricity costs by using the manure produced on his Tamworth property to create biogas - listen in to find out more!

2013 scholar Joe Muscat discusses fibre crops

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