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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.
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nbryo | Seed | 15 Aug 2026 | $2m | |
| MEQ Solutions | Series A | 15 Dec 2025 | $23m | |
| Nbryo | Seed | Nov 2025 | $10m | |
| Nbryo | Grant | Nov 2025 | $18m | |
| Salty Games | Seed | 27 Sep 2024 | $1.5m | |
| Number 8 Bio | Seed | 11 Sep 2024 | $7m | |
| G&K O'Connor | Grant | 27 Jun 2024 | $399.5k | |
| SIMmersion | Unnamed stage | 25 May 2023 | - | |
| Rumin8 | Seed | 24 Jan 2023 | $25m | |
| Mr Yum | Series A | Nov 2021 | $89m | |
| v2food | Series B | Aug 2021 | $72m |
Companies named in Beef Central / Grain Central's articles, most-covered first.
| Company | What it does | Articles |
|---|---|---|
| Rumin8 | Western Australian startup | 6 |
| CSIRO | Australia's national science research agency, from which Terria spun out | 5 |
| Telstra | Telecommunications company | 3 |
| University of Western Australia | University analyzing recovered experimental panels | 3 |
| Woolworths | Australian grocery retailer using electric truck delivery fleets | 3 |
| Agriprove | Carbon credit and livestock solutions provider | 2 |
| AirAgri | Australian agtech company providing farm safety and biosecurity services | 2 |
| CarbonLink | 2 | |
| Federal Government | 2 | |
| Food Standards Australia New Zealand | Food standards regulator that cleared Vow's cultured quail for commercial sale | 2 |
| Future Feed | CSIRO-invented seaweed-based technology aimed at producing carbon-neutral beef. | 2 |
| James Cook University | 2 | |
| Nbryo | Queensland agtech startup focused on advanced reproductive technologies | 2 |
| Rabobank | 2 | |
| Tattarang | 2 | |
| v2food | 2 | |
| Vow | Cultivated meat company | 2 |
| AAM Investment Group | 1 | |
| AgFunder | 1 | |
| AGP | Singapore-based investor | 1 |
| AgriFutures | 1 | |
| Agrifutures Australia | Organiser of the evokeAG conference | 1 |
| AgriFutures growAG. | 1 | |
| Agrimix | 1 | |
| AgriWebb | Livestock management platform | 1 |
| AgriZero | 1 | |
| Alta | 1 | |
| American Express | Financial services corporation owning Resy | 1 |
| Angus Australia | 1 | |
| Artesian Ventures | 1 | |
| Australian Competition and Consumer Commission | 1 | |
| Australian Government | 1 | |
| Beyond Meat | 1 | |
| Bush Beef | 1 | |
| Cattle Australia | 1 | |
| Centre for Invasive Species Solutions | Developer of WeedRemeed software platform | 1 |
| CH4 Global | 1 | |
| CirPro Australia | 1 | |
| Clean Energy Regulator | 1 | |
| Competitive Foods | 1 | |
| Cooperative Research Centre | 1 | |
| Deakin University | 1 | |
| Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry | 1 | |
| Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water | Government department providing grant funding | 1 |
| Duxton Farms | 1 | |
| Eat Just | 1 | |
| EatClub | Dynamic pricing app helping restaurants fill tables with time-sensitive discounts | 1 |
| Elders | agricultural services company | 1 |
| Ernst & Young | Professional services and audit firm | 1 |
| Esparq Ventures | 1 | |
| evokeAG | 1 | |
| Farmbot | Farmland remote water and asset monitoring platform for livestock farms | 1 |
| Farmers2Founders | 1 | |
| FarmLab | Soil carbon assessment and agriculture data company | 1 |
| Fortescue Metals | 1 | |
| G&K O'Connor | 1 | |
| Genex | 1 | |
| GrainCorp | 1 | |
| GreenCollar | 1 | |
| Hello Fresh | 1 | |
| Hungry Jack's | 1 | |
| HW Greenham & Sons | 1 | |
| Impossible Foods | 1 | |
| Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation | 1 | |
| Kimberley Agriculture and Pastoral Co | 1 | |
| KKR | 1 | |
| KPMG Australia | 1 | |
| Lowy Institute | 1 | |
| Lyro | 1 | |
| Macquarie Asset Management | 1 | |
| Macquarie Bank | Bank providing specialised and asset finance | 1 |
| Magnetic Alliance Capital | 1 | |
| MEQ Solutions | Red meat analysis and verification platform | 1 |
| MLA | 1 | |
| Mr Yum | Digital ordering and hospitality technology company | 1 |
| Mrs Mac's Pies | 1 | |
| Mullion Group | 1 | |
| Murdoch University | 1 | |
| National Farmers Federation | 1 | |
| New Zealand government | 1 | |
| Normanby Aboriginal Corporation | 1 | |
| Number 8 Bio | Sydney-based innovator in sustainable agriculture technologies reducing livestock methane… | 1 |
| Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan | 1 | |
| Optus | Australian telecommunications company where Aigentsphere founders previously held senior … | 1 |
| Paraway Pastoral Company | 1 | |
| Precision Pastures | 1 | |
| ProForm Foods | 1 | |
| Provenir | 1 | |
| Queensland University of Technology | 1 | |
| RocketSeeder | 1 | |
| Salty Games | 1 | |
| Seaforest | Seaweed livestock feed supplements that reduce methane emissions | 1 |
| SeaStock | Food tech startup developing clean-label functional ingredients from Asparagopsis algae | 1 |
| Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Committee | 1 | |
| Sentient Impact Group | 1 | |
| SIMmersion | 1 | |
| Southern Downs Regional Council | 1 | |
| SproutX | 1 | |
| Steam | 1 | |
| STgenetics | 1 | |
| The University of Queensland | 1 | |
| The University of Sydney | 1 | |
| Tipperary Station | 1 | |
| UNE | 1 | |
| United States Department of Agriculture | 1 | |
| University of Melbourne | University operating the Melbourne Connect innovation precinct | 1 |
| University of New England | 1 | |
| University of Queensland | Research university where Cortisonic's underlying phononic computing research originated | 1 |
| University of Sydney | 1 | |
| University of Tasmania | 1 | |
| URUS | One of the world's largest bovine genetics companies | 1 |
| VetChip | 1 | |
| Victorian Government | 1 | |
| WA Department of Agriculture | 1 | |
| Wise Repro | 1 | |
| WorkSafe | 1 |
Investors named in Beef Central / Grain Central's articles, most-covered first.
| Investor | What it does | Articles |
|---|---|---|
| Meat & Livestock Australia | 5 | |
| Harvest Road Group | Andrew and Nicola Forrest's agri-food business | 4 |
| Queensland Government | 3 | |
| AusIndustry | 2 | |
| Aware Super Sentient WA Growth Fund | 2 | |
| Breakthrough Energy Ventures | Bill Gates' VC firm | 2 |
| Main Sequence Ventures | 2 | |
| National Soil Carbon Innovation Challenge | 2 | |
| Prelude Ventures | 2 | |
| Queensland Investment Corporation | 2 | |
| ACEN Australia | 1 | |
| ARENA | 1 | |
| Aware Super | 1 | |
| Breakthrough Victoria | 1 | |
| Bright Moon Trust | 1 | |
| Clean Energy Finance Corporation | 1 | |
| Gates Foundation | 1 | |
| Insight Partners | 1 | |
| Macdoch Foundation | 1 | |
| Mandalay Venture Partners | 1 | |
| Merck | 1 | |
| Murdoch family | 1 | |
| muru-D | 1 | |
| Nissui Corporation | 1 | |
| NT Local Jobs Fund | 1 | |
| Paspalis | 1 | |
| Shell | 1 | |
| Tenacious Ventures | Venture firm backing early-stage agri-food startups | 1 |
| The March Group | 1 | |
| Western Australian government | 1 |