Foundation Farm

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.

Foundation Farm

TICKET REGISTRATION OPEN FOR THE 2025 FOUNDATION FARM FIELD DAYS

Join us from 11-13 February 2025 for the next Foundation Farm field days.

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About the Farm

About the Farm

Foundation Farm is an exciting innovation hub established by Pacific Seeds. It 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 Toowomba, Brisbane and Warwick.

  • 32.4 ha / 80 acres
  • Provides opportunities for dryland and irrigated cropping systems
  • Two fully equipped bores
  • Uniform deep black clay loam
  • Primary crops are grain sorghum, field corn and forage sorghum

 

Field Days and Tours

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.

NEXT FIELD DAYS: 11-13 February 2025

A commitment to innovation
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A commitment to innovation

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.

Research pillars

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

New technology
Sustainable farming practices
Crop protection
Crop agronomy
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

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