Victoria Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hub

Media Releases

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  • Soil
  • 3 minute read

Media Release: Students explore soil careers with GV schools

    Dr Anna Kosovac Over 500 years ago Leonardo da Vinci observed: “We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot.” This reflection, shared by Dr Peter Fisher –...
  • Drought resilienceResearch trials
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Media Release: Vic Hub horticulture project 1 of 5 awarded in national Long-term Trials program

Caption: Through extensive research, the Vic Hub project will develop guidelines and tools to help Australia’s $16.3b horticulture industry better manage drought conditions. Image credit: AgVic       A project to establish tree-survival signatures...
  • Drought resilience
  • 2 minute read

Media Release: MP Michaela Settle talks resilience at Drought Resilience 2025

L-R: Prof Rebecca Lester, Vic Hub Knowledge-Broker Lead; Deb Turner, Assistant Director, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF); Katrina Baxendell, Director, Research and Adoption Strategy and Hub Management, Future Drought Fund, DAFF; Nick Frederick,...
  • Drought resilience
  • 2 minute read

Media Release: Support at your fingertips: new Vic Hub resources for 2025’s dry season

    For more information and to access these resources, see our 2025 Dry Season & Seasonal Conditions Resources     Tough conditions in many parts of Victoria are taking a toll on farmers and...
  • Drought resilience
  • 2 minute read

Media Release: Calling researchers to register for Drought Resilience 2025

        Researchers from all fields are invited to register for Drought Resilience 2025, to be held in Geelong from 9 to 11 July 2025. Delivered by the Victoria Drought Resilience Adoption &...
  • Drought preparednessDrought resilience
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Media Release: Women on Farms Gathering 2025 – Benalla

Dr Sara Hely, Director, Victoria Drought Resilience Adoption & Innovation Hub     The Victoria Drought Resilience Adoption & Innovation Hub is proud to announce its sponsorship of the 2025 Women on Farms Gathering (WoFG)...
  • Drought resilience
  • 2 minute read

Media Release: Shanna Whan AM coming to Dookie

        The Victoria Drought Resilience Adoption & Innovation Hub (Vic Hub) is sponsoring Sober in the Country founder, Shanna Whan AM, as a keynote speaker for Dookie Discovery Week on 4 March....
  • Drought preparednessDrought resilience
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Media Release: Vic Hub launches water + drought reports in Victoria’s north-west

Rebecca Wells (left), CEO of the Mallee Regional Innovation Centre (MRIC), which leads the North-West Irrigated Horticulture Node of the Victoria Drought Resilience Adoption & Innovation Hub (Vic Hub), with Vic Hub Director, Dr Sara...
  • Vic Hub People
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Media Release: Vic Hub announces new leadership

Dr Sara Hely has joined the Victoria Drought Resilience Adoption & Innovation Hub as its new Director.   The Victoria Drought Resilience Adoption & Innovation Hub (Vic Hub) is pleased to announce the appointment of...
  • Soil
  • 2 minute read

Media Release: Continued funding for soil health boosts Australia’s drought resilience work

Victoria’s Regional Soils Co-ordinator, Dr Peter Fisher (pictured), and the Victoria Drought Resilience Adoption & Innovation Hub (Vic Hub) have welcomed the Federal Government’s $6.2 million continued commitment to the national network of Regional Soils...
  • Ag InnovationClimate Resilience
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Media Release: Fodder project looks at dairy and reduced GHG emissions

Sineka Munidasa, Research Assistant with Dr Paul Cheng at The University of Melbourne's Dookie Campus, is checking winter cereals - a high quality crop for conservation. Friday 24 May, 2024     Researcher Dr Paul...
  • Drought resilience
  • 2 minute read

Media Release: Innovative drought-resilience solutions showcased at evokeAG 2024

Australia’s eight Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hubs will join forces at the premier agrifood tech conference evokeAG. on 20 and 21 February, providing a united front to address one of the most pressing challenges...
  • Drought preparedness
  • 2 minute read

Media Release: Where is the ‘promised’ El Niño drought?

Wednesday 31 January, 2024   On 19 September last year, the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) declared an El Niño event. It followed several months in the “neutral” phase, after the three-year La Niña occurrence was...
  • Drought resilience
  • 1 minute read

Media Release: Victoria’s final 3 Regional Drought Resilience Plans open for feedback

  All nine of the Regional Drought Resilience Plans (RDRP) for Victoria have now been done. The final three – for the Mallee, Loddon Campaspe and Ovens Murray regions – are currently open for feedback...
  • Drought resilience
  • 2 minute read

Media Release: Vic Hub welcomes release of initial Drought Resilience Plans

  With great variation across Victoria climatically, there is no single, state-wide solution to building drought resilience. Professor Michael Tausz, Director of the Victoria Drought Resilience Adoption & Innovation Hub, said, “For this reason, the...
  • Drought resilience
  • 2 minute read

Media Release: As BOM calls El Niño ‘event’, what does this mean for Victorian agriculture?

  El Niño does not automatically mean drought, it means there is a likelihood of hotter and drier conditions – and what this tells us is to be prepared, without getting swept away in hype....
  • Drought resilience
  • 3 minute read

Media Release: Two grants led by Vic Hub partners realise $15m funding in new, long-term, drought-resilience trials

    The two projects, which are part of $38m in Federal Government innovation grants just announced, will: provide rigorous scientific evidence for the effectiveness or otherwise of farming-systems adaptations hypothesised to improve drought resilience...
  • Soil
  • 1 minute read

Media Release: Victorian input vital in national soil-knowledge quest

Dr Peter Fisher, Victoria Soil Co-ordinator with the Vic Hub, is encouraging all Victorians across the agricultural sector and those involved in natural resource management of soils to participate.   Dr Peter Fisher, Soil Co-ordinator...
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