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Foundation Farm

The Pacific Seeds Foundation Farm is an innovation hub, established to facilitate the testing and proving of new technologies prior to their implementation on farms.

NEXT FIELD DAYS:

February 2027

Available herbicide tolerance groups:

Clearfield®, Roundup Ready®, Triazine Tolerant, and Stacked Technology options

Foundation Farm

The Pacific Seeds Foundation Farm is an innovation hub, established to facilitate the testing and proving of new technologies prior to their implementation on farms.

NEXT FIELD DAYS:

February 2027

Foundation Farm field days

Click the link below to view the full program and reserve your spot at our upcoming Foundation Farm field days on 17-19 February 2026.

Foundation Farm field days

Click the link below to view the full program and reserve your spot  at our upcoming Foundation Farm field days on 17-19 February 2026.

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About the Farm

Pacific Seeds is committed to innovation and seeing growers’ full farming potential realised. Foundation Farm is a key part of this unwavering commitment, allowing for collaboration between like-minded organisations, researchers and growers to develop integrated systems that drive efficiency, sustainability, and ultimately profit for Australia’s agricultural industry.

Foundation Farm is used in the development of everyday agronomic solutions, in addition to being a practical and highly valuable educational resource for young farmers and agronomists.

Centrally located at Allora in Southern Queensland, the property is ideally positioned with access to a number of nearby airports including Toowoomba, Brisbane and Warwick.

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32.4 ha / 80 acres

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Provides opportunities for dryland and irrigated cropping systems

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Uniform deep black clay loam

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Primary crops are grain sorghum, field corn and forage sorghum

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Field Days and Tours

Foundation Farm provides the opportunity for field days and tours of trials. These events are an important avenue to provide industry updates on research findings, new technology, and planting methods. Foundation Farm partners are able to host their own tours of the trials and technology displays at the Farm.

These field days and tours attract hundreds of delegates during the year from across a variety of sectors including growers, agronomists, agribusiness, education and technology.

Field Days and Tours

Foundation Farm provides the opportunity for field days and tours of trials. These events are an important avenue to provide industry updates on research findings, new technology, and planting methods. Foundation Farm partners are able to host their own tours of the trials and technology displays at the Farm.

These field days and tours attract hundreds of delegates during the year from across a variety of sectors including growers, agronomists, agribusiness, education and technology.

Research Pillars

Research and the sharing of knowledge is the cornerstone of Foundation Farm. The key research pillars are as follows:

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New technology

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Sustainable farming practices
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Crop protection

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Crop agronomy

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Training

“As new data-driven systems for sustainable and efficient farming emerge, the need to bring together innovative likeminded businesses, researchers and farmers has never been more apparent.”

Trevor Philp – Summer Grains Agronomist

Get involved

To find out more about this exciting project and to better understand how you could get involved, please contact Pacific Seeds.

Trevor Philp

Summer Grains Agronomist, Pacific Seeds