Bundaberg campus focuses on subtropical horticulture, including macadamia, avocado, and vegetable crops, with research in pest and disease control.
Supports Wide Bay growers.
The Ecosciences Precinct campus collaborates with DAF on environmental and agricultural research, specializing in ecology, pest management, and ecosystem services related to agriculture.
Offers interdisciplinary programs combining agriculture with environmental management.
The Gatton campus is a major regional hub for agricultural education and research, hosting UQ and QAAFI programs in animal and crop sciences with extensive field facilities.
Emphasizes practical farming and research training.
This specialist campus at the Health and Food Sciences Precinct focuses on food safety, nutrition, and processing technologies, co-located with DAF labs for advanced analytical work.
Key site for students in food science degrees and research.
Hermitage specializes in grain crop research, breeding, and pathology in the Darling Downs region, supporting PhD projects on wheat, sorghum, and barley improvement.
Focuses on dryland cropping systems.
This facility specializes in grain crops, peanuts, and horticulture in the Burnett region, offering research training in sorghum and legume improvement.
Regional focus on sustainable cropping.
The Leslie facility targets grain legume and cereal research, including chickpea, wheat, and pest management in the Toowoomba region.
Key for Darling Downs crop production research.
The Long Pocket campus, featuring the Elkhorn Building, focuses on horticultural and plant science research, providing facilities for controlled environment studies and plant propagation. It supports higher degree research in tropical and subtropical crops.
This site emphasizes practical research skills for students pursuing careers in agribusiness and plant sciences.
Mareeba supports tropical agriculture research in far north Queensland, focusing on mango, lychee, and sugarcane.
Essential for FNQ primary industries.
Maroochy campus leads in tropical horticulture, banana breeding, and protected cropping research on the Sunshine Coast.
Key for subtropical horticulture innovation.
The St Lucia campus at the Queensland Bioscience Precinct serves as QAAFI's headquarters and a hub for cutting-edge research in agriculture and food innovation. It specializes in molecular biology, genomics, and interdisciplinary studies across crop, animal, nutrition, and horticultural sciences, hosting PhD, MPhil, and honours students in advanced research projects.
Students engage in hands-on lab work and field trials, contributing to sustainable agriculture solutions.
