Michael D’Occhio

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Right idea, wrong execution: the Ord River irrigation scheme needed better surrounding infrastructure. isthatdave/Wikimedia Commons

To grow agriculture in Australia, farmers need to think like miners

Michael D’Occhio, University of Sydney; Beverley Henry, University of Sydney; Chris Taylor, The University of Queensland; Luciano Gonzalez, University of Sydney, and Robyn Alders, University of Sydney

It’s perhaps fitting that mining magnate Andrew Forrest is in the vanguard of a move to position Australia as a major food supplier to China. Fitting, because if the plan is to work, Australian agriculture…
With growing pressures on our land, the aim will be to ‘farm smarter, not harder’. choctruffle/Flickr

Agriculture in Australia: growing more than our farming future

Peter Langridge, Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics; Dana Cordell, University of Technology Sydney, and Michael D’Occhio, University of Sydney

AUSTRALIA 2025: How will science address the challenges of the future? In collaboration with Australia’s chief scientist Ian Chubb, we’re asking how each science discipline will contribute to Australia…

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