InterGrain Cereal Breeding

02/09/2026

Netting is up in Horsham! Faba beans present a novel breeding challenge: preventing bees entering the trial plots & cross pollinating our pure breeding lines. Netting our plots is a critical step in developing the next generation of varieties. Well done team Horsham for their hard work in getting this netting up.

26/08/2026

BEACON FIELD DAY - See this season's trials in the ground.

Join us at the Beacon NVT Cereal Site to walk through:
- Grains Research and Development Corporation Time of Sowing Oats Trial - Early (1 April) vs main-season (8 May) sowing across 6 oat varieties + 2 wheat comparisons, at 3 seeding rates.
- NVT Cereal Site - Current oat, wheat and barley varieties side by side.

Guest Speakers:
Matu Peipi - Long Reach Plant Breeders
Georgia Trainor - InterGrain
Both speaking on their varieties in the trial - bring your questions straight for the breeders.

📍 Beacon NVT Cereal Site - enter via gate on Gillett Road (2.5km south of Burakin-Wialki Rd/Gillett Road T-junction)
Thursday 3rd September 2026
1.30pm - 3.30pm
Refreshments supplied

Proudly delivered by Living Farm, supported by GRDC.
Scan the QR on the flyer for the Google Map pin.

25/08/2026

Looking for a career change?

InterGrain is currently recruiting for several jobs based in WA!

• Barley Technician - https://bit.ly/4wPfJ7j
• Wheat Technician - https://bit.ly/4wVKbgs
• Commercial Technician - https://bit.ly/4qIgCgH

Get in touch if you have any questions about these exciting roles!

21/08/2026

Every new variety starts with investment in research, people and infrastructure.

That's why we're excited to see steady progress on InterGrain's new purpose-built facility in Perth. Designed specifically to support modern plant breeding, the new headquarters will strengthen our ability to develop improved wheat, barley, oat and faba bean varieties for Australian growers now and into the future.

Importantly, this investment is fully funded through End Point Royalty (EPR) revenue, demonstrating how industry investment is being reinvested into the breeding programs that support Australian agriculture.

Thank you to BADGE Construction and Armstrong Collective for their work on this exciting project.

19/08/2026

Barley Breeder Arun Shunmugam taking a look at a new barley variety IGB24053 which builds on the trusted reliability of Maximus CL. This new barley provides higher yields, improved disease & grain quality package and will be available for the 2028 season.

IBG24053 is present in NVTs across the country this season - keep a look out!

19/08/2026

We were delighted to host students from Hale School at InterGrain as part of their upcoming Japan Economics Study Tour.

The visit provided students with an introduction to Western Australia's noodle wheat industry, including how wheat varieties are developed, tested and connected to international markets. It was a fantastic opportunity to showcase the role innovation and plant breeding play in supporting a successful export supply chain.

Importantly, the visit helped connect consumers with how their food is produced and highlighted the wide range of career opportunities available across the grains industry, from science and research through to production, trade and global marketing.

Their journey doesn't stop here. As part of the tour, students will now follow the noodle supply chain through Japan, visiting a port, flour mill, noodle manufacturer and restaurant to see first-hand how Australian wheat is transformed into products enjoyed by consumers every day.

We're proud to support educational opportunities that help students understand the connections between agriculture, international trade and global food production, and we wish the boys a safe and rewarding trip to Japan 🇯🇵🍜

31/07/2026

Congratulations to our Communications Manager, Shannen Davies, on completing her Nuffield Scholarship and releasing her report on the future of Australian oats 👏

29/07/2026

We're proud to support Christopher Watts and his WAARC–Grower Group Alliance Honours Scholarship project investigating biological nitrification inhibition (BNI) in wheat.

Working alongside Living Farm, Curtin University and the InterGrain wheat team, Christopher is exploring whether BNI wheat lines can improve nitrogen efficiency under WA conditions—helping growers get more value from applied nitrogen while reducing losses.

We look forward to seeing the results from this exciting research being conducted across a range of WA environments throughout 2026.

Congratulations Chris, and thank you to WA Agricultural Research Collaboration and Grower Group Alliance for supporting the next generation of agricultural researchers. 👏

🌱 WAARC-GGA Honours Scholarship recipient Christopher Watts has been spotted out in the field at Kendenup, collecting soil cores for nitrogen analysis across his future trial plots.

Chris has just started his Honours at Curtin University and was matched with Living Farm through the WAARC-Grower Group Alliance Honours Partnership Program. His research is looking at yield impact of biological nitrification inhibition (BNI) traits in CIMMYT wheat lines under different nitrogen fertiliser rates in WA conditions.

🌾 For more info on Chris’s research project: https://www.livingfarm.com.au/959-2/

🤝 For more info on the WAARC-GGA Honours Partnership Program: https://waarc.org.au/research-programs/honours-partnership-program-2026/

29/07/2026

Great to attend the Charles Sturt University Approaching Ag day in Wagga Wagga. Awesome to see so many enthusiastic ag students keen to learn about the wide-ranging careers in agriculture.

24/07/2026

No better cure for Argentina's World Cup heartbreak than a dose of bean therapy for our Faba Bean Breeder Fede. 🫘💙

Fede has been clocking up the kilometres, travelling across the country to visit trial sites as InterGrain settles into leading Australia's national faba bean breeding program.

From checking trial progress to connecting with growers and research partners, it's been a busy few months as we build on the program's strong foundations and help deliver improved faba bean varieties for Australian growers.

Plenty of kilometres, plenty of beans, and hopefully enough bean therapy to ease the pain! 🌱🚗

Find out more about InterGrain joining the national faba bean breeding program: http://intergrain.com/intergrain-joins-national-faba-bean-breeding-program/