Publication Date

8-2026

Publisher

Australian Export Grains Innovation Centre and DPIRD

City

Perth

Abstract

The Australian Export Grains Innovation Centre (AEGIC) was an independent, not-for-profit organisation established in 2012 by the Western Australian Government and the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC). Its core mission was to increase the value and international competitiveness of Australia’s multibillion-dollar export grains industry. AEGIC ceased operation at the end of 2025.

Early in its history between 20 to 30 staff from the former Western Australian Department of Agriculture were seconded to AEGIC. Following the formation of DPIRD, AEGIC continued to receive substantial annual funding support from DPIRD.

This publication is a legacy document containing collated AEGIC blog posts on various grains industry topics. The core functions of AEGIC have been rolled into a new organisation, Grains Australia, that is solely funded by the GRDC.

The author of all the AEGIC blog posts, bar one, in this collation Ross Kingwell, currently DPIRD’s principal economist. Peter Elliott contributed the additional blog piece.

Contents:

  • Follow the mouths
  • Can we feed the world?
  • What happens to our grain consumption when we get richer?
  • Feed versus food: Implications for Australian wheat
  • The times are a changin’
  • Don’t think twice – it’s all right – Australia’s canola exports
  • The meat in our sandwich
  • Follow the mouths? ― just head to the coast!
  • The global taste for meat and fish – Implications for Australia’s grains industry? 
  • Global population forecasts: implications for Australian grain exports
  • An old truth, rediscovered
  • Under Bennett’s law is Australia a winner or loser?
  • Demographic change unleashes opportunities for Australia’s grains industry
  • The rise of the middle class
  • The pie is getting bigger: why grain market growth rates matter
  • Payment for quality
  • Sustainability labelling – where are Australia’s key grain export markets heading?

Number of Pages

53

Keywords

grains, export, economics

Disciplines

Agricultural and Resource Economics | Agronomy and Crop Sciences

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