GrainCorp’s climate targets validated by the Science Based Targets initiative
GrainCorp has reached a key milestone in its decarbonisation journey, with its climate targets officially validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) – the global benchmark for corporate climate action. The SBTi – a collaboration between CDP, the United Nations Global Compact, the We Mean Business Coalition, World Resources Institute (WRI) and the World […]
From palm to petri dish: The future of sustainable oils
Globally, palm oil production exceeds 75 million tonnes annually, so the race is on to find nature-identical oils that don’t have the environmental impacts that come with harvesting palm. GrainCorp Ventures has recently invested in Levur – an early stage start-up that’s developing novel alternatives to palm oil via synthetic biology. Based out of Macquarie […]
From Argentina to Australia: A career in agriculture knows no bounds
From his early days on the family farm in Argentina to his current role as a Commercial Commodity Analyst at GrainCorp, Mateo Stemples has built a career shaped by adaptability and a strong love of the agricultural sector. Growing up on a farm in Concordia, Entre Rios (about 400km north of Buenos Aires), Mateo developed […]
Turning fields of gold into a sustainable fuel source
If you’ve ever driven through rural towns spread out across the East or West coasts of Australia in September, you’ve probably stopped to admire the vast fields of golden canola flowers swaying gently under the Australian sun.
GrainCorp, CSIRO and v2food partner on $4.4million plant-based protein research
GrainCorp has partnered with Australia’s national science agency CSIRO and leading plant-based food producer v2food on a $4.4million research project in the fast-growing plant-based protein market.
Investing in the future of crop disease management with Aussie AgTech startup BioScout
Every year, between 20-40% of food production across the globe is lost to fungal disease, according to the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology. As the leading cause of crop disease, managing fungi is crucial to maintaining and improving yields and the high quality of Australia’s crops. Enter BioScout – an Australian start-up that has […]
Queensland farmer’s research tackles rural mental health challenges
Queensland grower David Woods has been awarded a Nuffield Australia Scholarship, supported by GrainCorp, that will see him explore strategies for tackling rural mental health in regional and remote Australia. Based in Toobeah, QLD, David aims to gain a deeper understanding of the critical gaps in rural mental health care and explore why, despite increased […]
GrainCorp launches Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan
GrainCorp is proud to make significant progress towards reconciliation with the launch of an Innovate level Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP).
IFM Investors & GrainCorp announce renewable fuels initiative
IFM Investors and GrainCorp announce a feasibility study into the steps needed to establish a local sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) industry.
Agriculture in the age of AI
Katrina ‘Treen’ Swift and her family farm 13 different cereal, oilseed, pulse and fibre crops across 4,000 hectares at Parkes, in Central West NSW. With operations so large, complex and diverse, Treen can see the benefit Artificial Intelligence (AI) could bring to her farm and agriculture generally in the coming years. Farm sustainability and biodiversity […]