The federal government has granted 10 companies a share of $4 million to enhance Australia’s agricultural traceability systems – including Y-Trace, Planfarm, CSIRO, LiveCorp, Australian Organic Limited, Blue Farm Intelligence, and the Queensland Cane Growers Organisation.
Australia's agricultural, fisheries, and forestry exports are forecast to reach around $86 billion this financial year, underscoring the importance of these grants.
Delivered through Round 4 of the Traceability Grants Program, the grants aim to support industry to grow its trade relationships, and enable more effective responses to biosecurity and food safety incidents.
As part of the National Agricultural Traceability Strategy 2023 to 2033, the Program supports initiatives that strengthen Australia’s traceability systems and enhance the integration and transparency of agricultural supply chains.
The latest grant round will help recipients to develop and trial technologies that digitise information flow and provide advantages for our producers in international markets. The projects showcase diverse approaches to improving traceability and supporting industry participants to expand into export markets while remaining competitive.
The full list of recipients includes:
- Y-Trace Pty Ltd – aligning honeybee export and audit data for interoperable digital traceability.
- Planfarm Pty Ltd – develop a framework to standardise horticulture producer data, generate commodity-level carbon accounts aligned with national frameworks, and connect these to traceability pathways.
- National Timber & Hardware Association Ltd – Forest-to-House traceability project enabling timber SMEs to comply with international regulations (EUDR) and integrate 'Trees Outside Forests' into global supply chains.
- Australian Wool Testing Authority Ltd – international project connecting wool traceability systems to reduce duplication, promote interoperable systems, strengthen biosecurity response, support market access through trusted, industry-wide information.
- Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) – transition from legacy systems to proactive compliance and automated traceability in grains, allowing on-farm data to provide continuous assurance to their users.
- Australian Livestock Export Corporation Ltd (LiveCorp) – a national initiative to standardise and uplift livestock export traceability systems, reducing regulatory costs, improving audit consistency, and protecting export market access under complex overseas supply chains.
- Australian Organic Limited – development of a national organic certification verification platform, using existing certification records to enable fast status checks, expiry alerts, and improved traceability across Australia’s organic supply chains.
- Blue Farm Intelligence Pty Ltd – integrating existing shellfish digital traceability and cold chain monitoring systems supporting high-value, high-risk seafood export.
- A.I. Topper & Co Pty Ltd – pilot a practical way to link hides to verified whole-of-life traceability, and produce export ready evidence packs.
- Queensland Cane Growers Organisation Ltd – build industry capability to deliver sustainable sugar through two-way traceability that supports credible sustainability claims and market value across the supply chain.
Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Julie Collins, said Australia is a global leader in agricultural traceability and the government is committed to building on this success.
“These new grants will support cutting-edge solutions to better track agricultural commodities and products along supply chains, reinforcing trust in Australian agriculture,” said Collins.
“This trust is critical to Australia’s agricultural export success. Under our government, market access for our farmers and producers is the most diversified it has ever been, providing our farmers with the best platform for continued growth.”
Head to agriculture.gov.au for more detail on the Round 4 recipients and to monitor for future Agricultural Traceability Grant opportunities.
