Department of Primary Industries (Queensland)

In Queensland, we’re prepared to take risks and try new things. We turn ideas into real-world solutions to help producers achieve more with less. 🚜 Our diverse landscape, world-class research and collaboration with industry is driving AgTech forward. We’re proud to show the best of Queensland’s AgTech innovation system at evokeAG 2025. ✨ AgriFutures evokeAG Day 2 – let’s do this! 🙌 #evokeAG2025 #TeamQueensland #QldAgTech #AgTechinAction

Queensland Farmers' Federation will host a Farm Business Resilience Program event – Understanding family business structures and responsibilities – on 9 April in Boonah. Participants can learn about business structures that are common to agricultural enterprises and discuss the advantages and pitfalls of each. The workshop will be hosted by Kylie Wilson, Partner at Sparke Helmore Lawyers, and Maddi Allen, Assistant Manager of Business Services at BDO. 📆 9 April | 8.30 am to 1.00 pm 📍 The Outlook Training and Resource Centre, Boonah. Register 👉 qff.org.au/events #FBRP #FarmBusinessResilience #FutureDroughtFund 

Follow your path wherever it leads with the Primary Industries Graduate Program! Whether it's jumping in and out of rabbit holes like Harry, or exploring something completely different, our 2-year program will support your transition from study to full-time employment in Queensland's primary industries. 👉 Build your capability with structured learning and training. 👉 Learn from experienced leaders in our mentoring program. 👉 Enjoy on-the-job experience and interesting project work. 👉 Explore unique career paths in regional and rural locations. Unsure if our program is for you? Hear from Dhruv and Suping on how the work they do contributes on a local and global scale 🌏👉 https://brnw.ch/21wRG7R Learn more and apply here 👉 https://brnw.ch/21wRG7S. 📆 Applications close Sunday 13 April 2025! #DPIcareers #passionandpurpose #followyourpath #bringlegacytolife

Have your say on animal welfare in Australia! Australia's Agriculture Ministers are renewing the Australian Animal Welfare Strategy to strengthen our animal welfare system. With your input, the renewed strategy will reflect contemporary evidence and science-based welfare practice and address modern challenges and opportunities for animal welfare. Following the first round of consultation in 2024, we are now seeking your input to identify which actions from the lapsed strategy are important for a renewed, modern, and future-focused strategy. Have your say at 👉 https://lnkd.in/gsKgwshh 📆 Responses close at 4pm (AEST) Monday 14 April 2025. #animalwelfare #animalwelfarestrategy #haveyoursay #DAFFgov Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 🤝

Our Senior Fisheries Biologist Gemma Mackenzie recently delivered information sessions on the draft accepted development requirements (ADR) for operational work regarding the removal, destruction or damage of marine plants. Over 150 attendees came together from local governments, Queensland Government, port corporations, consultants, environmental engineers, regional natural resource management bodies, and blue carbon specialists.  Gemma answered questions about work types and requirements proposed in the draft ADR and explained how accepted development provisions work in context with other development assessment and authorisation processes.  A blue carbon specialist thanked the team for their "trailblazing work to facilitate restoration work in the coastal zone". There's still time to have your say on the draft major update of the ADR 👉 https://brnw.ch/21wRBoo   Submissions close 5pm on Friday 4 April 2025. 

It’s great to see the impact the Queensland Biosecurity Grants Program is supporting! The University of Queensland’s recent workshops is a great example of how we're investing in the future of biosecurity through education. By bringing together high school students, UQ is helping to foster an early interest in #biosecurity and its vital role in safeguarding our ecosystem. The hands-on experience in UQ’s top-notch facilities allows these young minds to see firsthand the impacts and importance of robust biosecurity measures. Let's cultivate a generation that is well-equipped to support and enhance Queensland's biosecurity resilience. Well done, Kayvan Etebari for leading this fantastic program at UQ!

Spore-tacular news for Australia’s mushroom industry! We recently had the pleasure of welcoming Australian Mushroom Growers' Associations CEO Leah Bramich, world-famous Dr Mush Geoff Martin, and Hort Innovation's Bianca Cairns to our Maroochy Research Facility, to launch an innovative post-harvest research project. 👨🌾 We also visited SjW Mushrooms on the Sunshine Coast, a key collaborator in this work. Along the way, we uncovered some fascinating fungi facts – did you know mushrooms grow 4% per hour? Or that button mushrooms are just young portobellos that need more time to grow and spread? ⏲️ Led by Dr Hung Duong and the Supply Chain Innovation team, this project is focused on improving postharvest handling practices to enhance mushroom quality and extend shelf life for consumers. By refining storage and transport methods, we’re helping deliver fresher, longer-lasting mushrooms to Australian households, which won’t leave mush-room for improvement! #MushroomInnovation #SupplyChainSolutions #HortInnovation #QueenslandAgriculture

Biosecurity planning is essential for protecting our farms. A single disease can devastate crops in weeks, with huge financial impacts. By taking it step by step and focusing on what matters most, producers like Templeton Ginger are building resilience. 🛡️🌱 Learn how Templeton Ginger safeguards their farm, one step at a time. 🎥 Watch the full video on YouTube 👉 https://brnw.ch/21wRzNj

How did you spend your Earth Hour at 8:30pm Saturday, 22 March? Millions of people around the world switched off their lights for 60 minutes to symbolise a collective commitment to combating climate change and biodiversity loss. 🌃🌜🌏 Our staff in Toowoomba were invited to go stargazing at the University of Southern Queensland campus with telescopes pointed into the night sky. The Central Regional Office team at Parkhurst proposed a 'building against building' challenge to record activities, including a campfire under the stars, spotlighting with torches, a glow-in-the-dark party, and a candle-lit dinner! Here are some of the winning shots. 🤩 #PassionAndPurpose #EarthHour2025

Are you interested in working with passion and purpose, and making a positive impact within the forest and timber industry? 🌲🌳 We are looking for keen and enthusiastic people to join our forestry team, with 4 positions available temporarily until 31 December 2026. Every team at DPI is unique, but we share the same powerful purpose to protect Queensland for the present and future. Apply today via Smart Jobs: 👉 https://brnw.ch/21wRzBy 👉 https://brnw.ch/21wRzBx Hear how Brianna and Matthew are bringing legacy to life in our video below 👇 Find purpose you feel, impact you see and a legacy you bring to life – for the future of Queensland and the world. #DPIcareers #passionpurpose