Seed Business Convention 2024

AgEtal are the 2024 sponsor for the Women in Seed Luncheon. AgEtal is NATA accredited for seed and grain testing. They provide personal and qualified support and testing of all species (Temperate and Tropical).

Enza Zaden are the 2024 sponsor for the Leadership Day. Enza Zaden is a vegetable seed breeding company with its headquarters in the town of Enkhuizen, North Holland. They specialize in open field and protected cropping species groups with many world renowned market leading varieties. In Australia Enza Zaden breed locally in onions, cauliflower and many other species, and the Australian market is one of their strategic markets

ASL is the 2024 lanyard sponsor. Australian Seed Labs (ASL) is an accredited ISTA (International Seed Testing Associated) laboratory. Previously trading as Queensland Seed Technology Laboratory, ASL has held its ISTA accreditation since 2002. ASL staff participate in annual ISTA sanctioned proficiency test rounds to ensure all tests are completed in accordance with the ISTA Rules. ASL has a Class 5.2 Approved Arrangement (AA) quarantine facility onsite, allowing for the testing of imported seed. ASL specialises in the testing of herbage, forage, vegetable, flower and native seed species for both national and international certification. The laboratory also undertakes seed technology research for seed companies and individuals by arrangement.

DLF Seeds is a forage seed company with over 80 years’ experience supplying Australian farmers with the widest range of forage seed varieties. DLF Seeds represents the coming together of PGG Wrightson Seeds, AusWest and Stephen Pasture Seeds and their offerings cover all aspects of the seed market, from R&D through to product supply, distribution and technical on-farm support.

Satake Australia is the Notebook & Pens sponsor for 2024. Satake Australia Pty Ltd are responsible for Satake Corporation’s Group activities in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. The company consists of Engineering, Sales, installation, Administration and Service departments as well as operating their own fabrication workshop. Within their workshop they build machinery that is specific to the Australian market demands.

Agsafe is the Welcome Drinks sponsor for 2024. Agsafe was established in 1993 as an industry-led non-profit organisation committed to ensuring safe transport, storage and handling of agricultural and veterinary chemicals throughout the supply chain. Agsafe was established to deliver the industry’s flagship stewardship programs. These are the Agsafe Member Services and Training program, the drumMUSTER and ChemClear® programs.

GTE are the Happy Hour Sponsor for 2024. We are committed to advancing the seed, feed, and food industry through innovation. We strive to be at the forefront: providing specialist, technology-focused equipment, and we act to enable and empower our clients to work and produce more efficiently and sustainably.

Aurora is the Convention Handbook sponsor for 2024. Aurora want to help Australian and New Zealand businesses better compete on the world stage. They are here to make it easy to implement packaging automation regardless of whether you are a small rural-based family business or a multi-national corporate. They're paving the way for businesses to take advantage of everyday automation with confidence!

Dobmac are a Meal Break sponsor for 2024. Dobmac Agricultural Machinery is an innovative, market leader in the design, manufacture, supply & maintenance of specialised agricultural machinery in a changing global market.

Callahan Seed are the Seed Business Challenge sponsor for 2024. Callahan Seed are wholesale seed brokers operating in the domestic market and international trade – export and import.

DLF Seeds is a forage seed company with over 80 years’ experience supplying Australian farmers with the widest range of forage seed varieties. DLF Seeds represents the coming together of PGG Wrightson Seeds, AusWest and Stephen Pasture Seeds and their offerings cover all aspects of the seed market, from R&D through to product supply, distribution and technical on-farm support.

AgriFutures Australia is one of 15 Research and Development Corporations (RDCs) that service the Research, Development and Extension (RD&E) needs of Australian rural industries. We represent the research needs for 13 thriving rural industries (chicken meat, rice, honey bee and pollination, ginger, tea tree oil, pasture seeds, export fodder, thoroughbred horses, kangaroo, buffalo, deer, goat fibre and ratite), delivering research and innovation that aims to give our farmers and producers real returns, as well as prepare them to thrive into the future.

RAGT are the Emerging Leader Award sponsor for 2024. As the world eagerly looks to increase yields and raise productivity, RAGT Australia are continually breeding, trialling, and perfecting seed solutions that are now changing ‘rusted on minds’ on what can be successfully sown and work down under.

Centor Oceania is the Women in Seed Award sponsor for 2024. Centor Oceania is an independently owned and operated business servicing the Asia Pacific in all aspects of seed applied technology. Working closely with seed companies to better understand their individual needs and requirements, Centor Oceania takes the approach of tailoring solutions to problems rather than offering a one size fits all approach.