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WeedRemeed, a drone-image weed detection platform built by the Centre for Invasive Species Solutions with 2pi Software, becomes easier to use, backed by a government grant and ACEN Australia's social investment support.
Queensland feedlot cattle are being swabbed for BRD bacteria to support AgriCureX's phage and genomics research into antibiotic alternatives, a project MLA co-funds, with a first trial planned for mid-2027.
Agtech firm AirAgri has released a WhatsApp channel for on-farm safety and biosecurity reporting, timed to National Biosecurity Week and enabled by Telstra's satellite-to-mobile expansion, with founder James Diamond explaining the adoption rationale.
Queensland's government has put $2 million into Nbryo, a Brisbane cattle-breeding technology startup, the first investment from its new $30 million farm innovation fund, which QIC manages.
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Competition regulator approval lets Hewitt proceed with its purchase of Queensland beef processor Nolan Meats, a deal flagged in May; Hewitt is mostly owned by a Canadian pension investment manager.
URUS Group has signed a definitive agreement to acquire livestock data platform AgriWebb. Terms undisclosed; completion expected in the third quarter of 2026, pending regulatory approvals.
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Three seasoned agribusiness and funds figures have launched a boutique fund to buy and turn around overlooked mid-market companies in staple industries, with capital raising under way and first acquisitions planned for early 2026.
MEQ Solutions, which builds objective meat-quality measurement technology, has raised A$23 million from Insight Partners to grow its team and deepen partnerships across several countries.
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A Far North Queensland Aboriginal corporation has raised $600,000 toward its wild-harvested Bush Beef venture and is seeking further backing, alongside a government-commissioned report finding consumers will pay more for Indigenous produce.
A Queensland cattle genetics business has opened a laboratory to process bull semen at Glen Aplin with government grant support, and a partner will sort sexed semen there from early 2026.
Queensland cattle biotech Nbryo completed a $10 million raise backed by Tenacious Ventures, AgriZeroNZ, QIC and Mandalay, and reports over $18 million in grants from the Gates Foundation and Meat & Livestock Australia.
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Profile of Provenir, which slaughters cattle on-farm with a mobile unit and sells meat direct to consumers; recaps its evolution, pricing, rules and expansion plans, recalling backing from SproutX and Meat and Livestock Australia.
Soil carbon company CarbonLink is trialling new sensing technologies on Australian farms with federal grant backing; the piece recounts its CSIRO partnership, NetSCAN platform and earlier grant wins.
An academic review concludes cultured meat's environmental and nutrition promises are unproven, citing energy intensity and scaling costs; Australia's food regulator is tipped to clear Vow Group's quail-cell product by July.
Peak beef lobby Cattle Australia attacks regulator FSANZ's draft labelling rules for fake meat; Vow, the Sydney firm behind a novel-food application, is cutting over 30 percent of its workers.
Darwin game studio Salty Games has received $1.5 million in seed funding from the Paspalis Co-Investment Fund to complete its Northern Territory cattle station simulator, Pasture, ahead of a planned Steam launch.
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Two Australian red meat processors, G&K O'Connor and Bindaree Food Group, have been awarded government grants under ARENA's industrial decarbonisation program, funding feasibility studies into renewable energy and waste-to-energy options at their plants.
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Beef Central reports that plant-based protein producer Proform Foods, whose backers include Andrew Forrest's Harvest Road, has entered voluntary administration, with KPMG appointed and operations continuing during a sale process.
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Trade publication outlines FutureFeed's 2024 priorities for the asparagopsis seaweed additive business, noting industry investment and a research paper questioning the product's safety, which the company rejects.
Victorian beef processor HW Greenham & Sons has opened a rebuilt Tongala plant, backed by a $10 million federal grant, lifting daily cattle throughput and adding roughly 230 jobs at full capacity.
Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan is taking majority ownership of GreenCollar by buying KKR's 49 per cent stake, reportedly putting the carbon projects developer's value at $800 million.
Paul Slaughter has abruptly left his role as chief executive of WA meat processor Harvest Road, becoming the latest in a series of senior departures from Twiggy Forrest's Tattarang group.
VetChip, a Fremantle startup whose implantable microchip remotely tracks livestock health, raised $2 million in 2021 and is courting investors via AgriFutures GrowAg for a commercial trial, having recently won a WA government grant.
Soil carbon company AgriProve received a Meat & Livestock Australia grant for a six-year research project, with three partnering producers hosting demonstration sites in Queensland, NSW and Tasmania.
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Profile of AirAgri, a Victorian agtech startup whose tracking device and app alert others when farmers working alone get into trouble, recalling a government grant and accelerator programs that supported its development.
Plant-based meat maker v2food will shut its Wodonga factory and shift production to third parties, while chief operating officer Tim York replaces departing founder Nick Hazell as chief executive.
Gates discussed livestock emissions in a Lowy Institute session, recalling his firm Breakthrough Energy Ventures' investment in Western Australian methane-supplement startup Rumin8, and praised Australian agriculture and climate policy.
WA climate tech firm Rumin8 closed the second phase of its seed round, raising US$12 million from Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Harvest Road Group, with existing climate fund investors topping up their holdings.
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Telstra has put another $2 million into water-monitoring agtech Farmbot, its third backing of the business, to support growth and an upcoming United States launch.
Eight projects share 28.9 million dollars in Australian government grants under the National Soil Carbon Innovation Challenge, funding cheaper technologies for measuring soil organic carbon, with ministers Bowen and Watt announcing the recipients.
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Coverage of AgFunder and AgriFutures' new Asia-Pacific investment report, which found Australian agrifoodtech startups attracted $565.5 million across 55 deals in 2021, plus Lyro's raises and evokeAG 2023 applications.
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Walmart has bought a minority stake in Nebraska rancher-owned beef processor Sustainable Beef, joining its board and partnering to source Angus beef from the company's new processing plant opening by late 2024.
A taste-preference trial at UNE is testing how cattle respond to Rumin8's methane-reducing feed additive, guiding dosing and efficacy decisions as the company moves from lab work into animal studies.
Climate tech firm Rumin8 has secured seven million dollars from Prelude Ventures and the Aware Super-backed Sentient WA Growth Fund to develop methane-reducing livestock feed supplements.
Asparagopsis seaweed feed supplement reaches commercial phase in Australia as CH4 Global records first feedlot sales. FutureFeed licenses CSIRO-discovered technology, with Sea Forest and SeaStock also taking orders from beef producers.
Climate tech firm Rumin8 has been awarded a government grant to advance animal trials of feed additives that cut livestock methane emissions, with research partners assisting.
Wrap-up of conference sessions in Darwin on consumer data, ESG lending and provenance trends for cattle businesses, noting US virtual-fencing startup Vence securing corporate backing from Shell and Merck.
Australian carbon credit prices have tripled on growing private demand. Amid rising interest in soil carbon projects, Armidale-based Precision Pastures has completed a $500,000 capital raising.
Senators question CSIRO over email exchanges with plant-based protein maker v2food, probing conflicts between the agency's public research role and its equity stake in the company, with fund investment details aired at the hearing.
Farmbot has sold over 5,000 water monitoring units, with COP26 lifting interest. Telstra's $1m formed part of a $2.7m raise earlier in 2021, and US trials are underway ahead of an overseas launch.
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Beef Central's R&D series reports AMPC's two-year funding of MEQ Probe nearing commercial payoff, with Gundagai Meat Processors now using the carcase probe commercially and beef marbling development underway.
Telstra led a $2.7 million capital raising for water monitoring company Farmbot, investing $1 million alongside Macdoch Ventures and Follow the Seed, with funds earmarked for US expansion and regional hiring.
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Huon Aquaculture's board rejects Twiggy Forrest's animal welfare criticisms of its agreed takeover by JBS, while Forrest's Tattarang, holding an 18.5 percent stake, says environmental concerns stopped it matching the offer.
Livestock tracking firm Ceres Tag launched commercially at Rockhampton and sold a five percent stake to satellite company Pivotel for a reported 2.5 million dollars, with Pivotel's chief executive joining its board.
Meat processor JBS has agreed to buy Dutch plant-based protein maker Vivera for the equivalent of A$532 million, gaining three Dutch factories, an R&D centre and a European retail footprint.
Zetifi, a Wagga Wagga wireless networking firm and AVST grant recipient, is seeking NSW and northern Victorian farmers to trial Wi-Fi calling, offering 50 subsidised installations where mobile coverage is poor.
Sydney seaweed startup Sea Forest received a $1m federal Accelerating Commercialisation grant to scale asparagopsis production as a livestock methane reducer, with high-profile angel backers already on board and a Fonterra partnership secured.
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NSW agtech firm Agscent has received a $600,000 federal commercialisation grant to develop its hand-held device that detects early pregnancy in cattle, building on earlier R&D supported by MLA and NSW DPI.
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A South Australian venture farming asparagopsis seaweed near Port Broughton seeks investors, while the article recalls CSIRO's FutureFeed venture, formed with five core investors including GrainCorp, Woolworths, Harvest Road and Sparklabs Cultiv8.
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FutureFeed, a seaweed cattle supplement spun out by CSIRO with backing from GrainCorp, Woolworths and others, has won a US$1 million Food Planet Prize from the Curt Bergfors Foundation for slashing livestock methane emissions.
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Wagga Wagga connectivity startup Zetifi won a half-million US dollar prize in the Grow-NY food and agtech competition, and plans a New York presence plus trials with Monroe Tractor and Case IH.
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CSIRO has formed FutureFeed to commercialise a seaweed-based cattle feed supplement that cuts methane, securing $13 million from five investors including GrainCorp, Woolworths and Harvest Road.
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Western Meat Packers Group received a Western Australian government grant of $300,000 toward a $10 million abattoir expansion, expected to create at least 50 full-time jobs and support offal processing and new export markets.
First-time entrant Stone Axe Pastoral won the Australian Wagyu Association's 2020 branded beef competition; the article also recounts Roc Partners' 2017 investment and Stone Axe's stake in the Yarranbrook feedlot.
The federal NAIF has reached contractual close on a $24 million loan to Signature Onfarm for a beef processing facility and worker accommodation near Clermont in Central Queensland.
Conference report from Melbourne where plant-based and conventional protein advocates debated. Fable Foods' funding round closed, and Michael Fox's earlier shoe startup Shoes of Prey is recalled as collapsed.
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Deals recorded from Beef Central / Grain Central's coverage. A round is listed once, however many of their articles mention it.
| Company | Stage | Announced | Amount | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agriprove | Grant | 22 Nov 2022 | $9.2m | |
| AgriWebb | Series B | 20 Jan 2021 | $30m | |
| Agscent | Grant | Feb 2021 | $600k | |
| Farmbot | Series A | 13 Oct 2021 | $1.8m | |
| Future Feed | Grant | 20 Dec 2020 | US$1m ($1.3m) | |
| Future Feed | Unnamed stage | 21 Aug 2020 | $13m | |
| G&K O'Connor | Grant | 27 Jun 2024 | $399.5k | |
| MEQ Solutions | Series A | 15 Dec 2025 | $23m | |
| Mr Yum | Series A | 30 Nov 2021 | $89m | |
| Nbryo | Seed | 15 Aug 2026 | $2m | |
| Nbryo | Seed | Nov 2025 | $10m | |
| Nbryo | Grant | Nov 2025 | $18m | |
| Number 8 Bio | Seed | 11 Sep 2024 | $7m | |
| Rumin8 | Seed | 24 Jan 2023 | $25m | |
| Rumin8 | Seed | 18 Jul 2022 | $7m | |
| Salty Games | Seed | 27 Sep 2024 | $1.5m | |
| Sea Forest | Grant | 15 Feb 2021 | $1m | |
| SIMmersion | Unnamed stage | 25 May 2023 | - | |
| v2food | Series B | 12 Aug 2021 | $72m | |
| Zetifi | Grant | 24 Nov 2020 | US$500k ($676k) | |
| Zetifi | Accelerator | 2019 | - |
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