Bundaberg Research Facility (BRF)
Agri-Science Queensland, Queensland Government
The 59 hectare facility near Bundaberg undertakes research in sub-tropical horticulture, vegetable and field crops across a broad range of species including mandarins, avocadoes and macadamia nuts, strawberries and peanuts. The deep red volcanic soils provide excellent capacity for R&D to a wide range of horticultural and coastal broad acre crops and sugar cane projects as well as 10ha each of Citrus Breeding & Mac Breeding.
- Website
- https://www.daf.qld.gov.au/contact/offices/stations-facilities/bundaberg
- Organisation type
- Queensland Government – Partner
- Number of research staff
20-100 research staff
- Address
49 Ashfield Road, Rubyanna, Bundaberg QLD 4670
Strengths and capabilities
- Development of coastal farming systems involving sugarcane,peanuts and soybeans
- Breeding and evaluation of macadamia germplasm, both on and off facility
- Evaluation of strawberry germplasm
- Evaluation of peanut germplasm
- Evaluation of avocado high productivity production systems
- Evaluation of macadamia high productivity production systems
- Breeding and evaluation of mandarin germplasm
- Evaluation of sweet potato germplasm using off station co|operators
Facilities and major equipment
- 59ha research farm with a mix of red and black volcanic soil
- Research polyhouses for seedling growth
- State of the art computer controlled irrigation system
- Research laboratories and coldrooms
- Specialist vegetable plant and equipment to support research activity
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