Beyond the Bite series: Biologicals – a glimpse into the future - Jul 2026

📅 16 July 2026 | 📍 Online

Join us for the second webinar in ATSE’s Agriculture and Food Forum series, Biologicals – a multi-part series exploring the future of Australian food and agriculture, from nutrition and sustainability to biosolutions, productivity and value-added innovation.

Webinar 2: Biologicals – a glimpse into the future

Australia’s agricultural competitiveness has long been built on innovation, collaboration and a strong commitment to research and development, combined with a willingness of producers to adopt new technologies to drive productivity across the sector.

With biologicals moving rapidly from niche to mainstream — and the global market projected to surpass USD $30–35 billion by 2030 — momentum is building for bio-based solutions across crop protection, soil health and sustainable production systems.

‘Biologicals’ is the name for a suite of existing and novel crop protection and plant health tools that includes biopesticides (living, dead or derived natural products), biological agents such as natural enemies, and biofertilizers.

In the second webinar in ATSE’s Beyond the Bite series, Biologicals – a glimpse into the future features a diverse panel spanning research, industry, end user and international experts unpacking both the promise and the practicalities of new bio products for agricultural productivity and safety. They will highlight opportunities and challenges across regulation, scalable manufacturing, cost and real-world adoption of biosolutions. Critically, the discussion will connect these innovations to the broader imperative of strengthening food and nutritional security, ensuring sustainable solutions can be delivered at scale for real impact on the ground.

What’s ahead in the Beyond the Bite series:

Future webinars in the series will explore key challenges and innovations shaping the future of Australian agriculture and food systems, including:

Nutrients and residue limits across the food supply chain

Enhancing productivity through value-added food processing

The role of biofuels in Australian agriculture