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‘We fed more than 2000 ticks’: Queensland-founded vaccine could finally defeat beef industry’s $146 million dollar problem

Ticks; a tiny but mighty pain for the Australian beef industry, taking a $146 million-dollar bite out of the sector every year.
But after more than 18 years research which began in the Department of Primary Industries & Fisheries (now in the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries/QDAF), a vaccine is showing powerful potential to disrupt the life cycle of the cattle tick.
University of Queensland scientists Professor Ala Tabor and Dr Hannah Siddle of the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation share how they’re set to test their vaccine on 40 cattle in a proof-of-concept trial for commercial adoption.

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14 Aug 2024
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Calling all agrifood innovators: evokeAG. Groundbreakers applications are now open

The search is on for the next generation of agrifood innovators with applications now open for the evokeAG. Groundbreakers 2025 cohort.
Formally known as the Future Young Leaders program, the 2025 evokeAG. Groundbreakers Program will give five young agrifood innovators the opportunity to present their ideas, innovations, or research to an international audience at evokeAG. in Brisbane on 18 and 19 February 2025.

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5 Aug 2024

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evokeAG. Brisbane-bound in 2025 

On the first day of the sell-out 2024 AgriFutures evokeAG. event in Perth, AgriFutures Australia has today announced that evokeAG. 2025 will head to Brisbane, Queensland.   

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20 Feb 2024