Former deputy director of CSIRO Agriculture & Food professor Martin Cole is joining plant-based meat start-up v2food as the new chief scientific advisor.

Food and agriculture, and manufacturing have been identified as areas where science and technology could be used to help restore economic growth and resilience in the recovery from COVID-19.

With closed borders and the resultant fall in demand for fresh produce normally destined for overseas markets now is the time to look at how our national supply chain can be repurposed to address the disruption.

Fonterra is set to acquire Dairy Country for $19.23 million. The company currently holds a 23 per cent market share in the Australian retail cheese category with brands such as Perfect Italiano, Mainland and Bega.

Converting biowaste, algal biomass and beached seaweed are some of the sustainable new ways scientists from Flinders University have discovered can fill the gap for dietary proteins.

The South Australian Government and Wine Australia have partnered to initiate an $870,000 national AgTech wine project to help boost emerging technologies for the wine industry.

JBS Australia has announced a third of the workforce at its Dinmore beef processing plant will be let go as the company scales back operations “for the foreseeable future”. Ongoing drought, severe livestock shortages and COVID-19 were key factors in the decision.

Adrian Gastevski, co-founder of leading plant-based company Future Farm Co explains the growing behaviour behind consuming more plant-based alternatives.

Calabria Family Wines has acquired the Australian distribution business for Italian prosecco Canti from Accolade Wines. It will take over the import, sales, and marketing of the brand.

Nestlé and iQ Renew are starting a trial that will see soft plastics collected through kerbside recycling. It will start with 2000 households on the NSW Central Coast.

The inaugural National GS1 Traceability Advisory Group (NGTAG) meeting brought together 60 senior executives from government and industry to discuss a strategic master plan for Australia’s supply chain visibility.

Following long years of contract-bottling, the smoothie and juice producer innocent has decided to build the very first bottling plant of its own. It's goal is to build an entirely CO2-neutral factory.

Pure Foods Tasmania has announced it is acquiring Daly Potato Company to help the company’s expansion into the ready meals market. Daly Potato Company produces premium potato products sold through major supermarket chains.

Woolworths Group has made changes to its leadership team, with its New Zealand managing director Natalie Davis returning to Australia to take on the Woolworths Supermarkets managing director role.

At the start of the pandemic, Fonterra stepped in to make 250,000 litres of hand sanitiser for New Zealanders. Now, the company is lending equipment to help produce a COVID-19 vaccine.

New research says 72 per cent of Generation Z are not ready to accept cultured, or cell-based, meat, despite more than half being concerned about the environmental impact of traditional livestock farming.