R&D Plan

The Pasture Seeds Five-Year R&D Plan 2008-2013 has five main objectives:

• industry communication and capacity building;
• improved seed production and processing technologies;
• environmentally sustainable seed production systems;
• monitor, evaluate and adopt emerging sciences and technologies; and
• develop new pasture seed products, markets and farm systems.

The Pasture Seeds Program is over-sighted by the Pasture Seeds R&D Advisory Committee.  This Committee is responsible for ranking research funding proposals within the framework of the Five Year R&D Plan.  Its primary focus is on those pasture seeds which are levied to fund the program.

The Plan aims to deliver on the vision for the future, shared by the industry, RIRDC and the research community, for a profitable and sustainable pasture seeds industry based on a reputation for the reliable supply, domestically and internationally, of a range of pasture species.