Marshall Lightowlers, Robin Gasser and Rebecca Traub and their teams have worked for years to develop effective treatments and strategies to control parasites.

Alumni from the Faculty's Melbourne Veterinary School and School of Agriculture and Food received Queen's Birthday Honours for 2017.

If youve ever smelled silage, its not an odour you forget in a hurry. For some its the fragrance of a rural idyll warm livestock, sunny pastures and fresh hay. For others, it smells like what it i...

Over 40 University of Melbourne Bachelor of Veterinary Science (BVSc) and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) alumni met in Melbourne for a reception during the 2017 AVA Annual Conference.

A new research centre led by University of Melbourne scientists aims to solve the challenges pollution and soil degradation poses to food production around the world.

To a child, soil is just dirt a home for worms. To a gardener, soil is a collection of organic matter and nutrients. But to plants, soil is a hotbed of chemical activity. And plants dont just obse...

A family’s commitment to helping others has enabled a young student to focus on her studies

A new agreement will enable research which supports the discovery of treatments and diagnostics for pathogens and disease.

Irene Lowe took pride saying she was the first woman in the southern hemisphere to complete a degree in agricultural science.

Dr Liz Walker has found a position she loves, as Chief Executive Officer of RSPCA Victoria.

Masters student Jemma McDougall believes she hit the jackpot when Nick Sher came into her life to offer guidance

Bachelor of Agriculture students explored the wide range of careers available to agriculture graduates in an industry event on 27 April 2017

Sustainable agriculture expert Professor Tim Reeves discusses the profound changes required in agricultural practice, public policy and consumer behaviour if we are to feed the Earths ever-growing ...

The news that a man was swallowed whole by a snake on an Indonesian island leaves more than an uncomfortable lump in the throat. Images that cant be unseen including a six-minute video of the snak...

British consumers were put out in February this year when supermarkets temporarily began rationing lettuce and zucchini after flash flooding and snow wiped out crops in Spain.

The next time you bite into an apple, spare a thought for the soils that helped produce it. Soils play a vital role, not just in an apples growth, but in our own health too.

Parasitology researcher Clare Anstead has received the Australian Wool Innovation Award at the 2017 Science Innovation Awards for Young People in Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. 

Twenty early-and mid-career agricultural researchers learned how to build mobile apps for data collection in international development projects and how to pass these skills to their colleagues in a...

The Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences has appointed Professors Ted Whitten and Mohan Singh to lead the Melbourne Veterinary School and School of Agriculture and Food. 

Environmental physicist Professor Mark Sutton explains how our fast-growing nitrogen footprint from agriculture and industry is reaching crisis levels as reactive nitrogen pollutes our air and soil...

In our annual PhD episode, we chat with two young researchers on their diverse investigations.

Happily for most people, the worst side effect of Christmas will be an expanded waistline or a family row. Most of us will be able to enjoy ourselves and celebrate with abandon.

Christmas can be exciting and full of treats for us, but full of new dangers for pets warns veterinarian Dr Leonie Richards from the University of Melbournes U-Vet clinic in Werribee.

Congratulations to Associate Professor Rebecca Traub, whose newBill & Melinda Gates Foundation-funded research is expected to improve access to diagnosis in remote areas of developing countries at ...

Professor John Fazakerley, Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences delivered this public lecture at the University of Melbournes Parkville Campus on Thursday 22 September.

Cradling a three-week-old chicken in one hand, Glenn Browning raises an eyedropper to its tiny eye and administers a vaccine.

They may have graduated 16 years apart, but Melbourne veterinary science alumni Stephen Cutterand Ella Richardson found a shared interest in Australian wildlife and treating dogs in Indigenous com...

Alicia Cain and her brothers Peter and Matthew turned their fathers renowned oat farm into fields of gold when the trio saw the potential of his produce as an artisanal product.

A vaccine to combat tapeworms in pigs developed by the University of Melbournes Professor Marshall Lightowlers, Indian Immunological Limited and the Global Alliance for Veterinary Medicine, could a...

Professor Jan Thomas, a Melbourne Master of Veterinary Studies alumna with an international reputation for her teaching, research and academic leadership will be the next vice-chancellor of Massey ...

The Weekly Review interviews women in the racing industry in its latest issue, including University of Melbourne veterinary medicine alumna and former staff member Grace Forbes.

University of Melbourne students Dale Hinkley and Kate Methven have been awarded Rural Finance Scholarships in this year’s round. The scholarship gives Victorian agriculture students financial and...

If you break your leg, it will be painful and debilitating but in most cases you can recover with treatment.

Animal welfare judging competition in full swing! @HazelSJ @FVASunimelb #AWJC #AWSC @ZoosVictoria pic.twitter.com/4Pd2z5cAhE

Second-year Bachelor of Agriculture student Xavier Carew was originally interested in agronomy, but after being part of the University of Melbournes competition-winning sheep judging team, hes cons...

Research by Evan Bittner (pictured above) has shown recordings of the cries and trumpets of female elephants can be played through speakers to prevent crops from being raided by bull elephants.

University of Melbourne researchers will seek to reduce the risk of racehorse fatalities on the track as part of a $5.25 million funding commitment from the Victorian Government and Racing Victoria.

Mens and womens football teams made up of University of Melbourne and Marcus Oldham College agriculture students went toe-to-toe in two games in Parkville.

University of Melbourne professor Kevin Smith spoke at the WAFarmers annual dairy conference last week about GM pasture research and the opportunity it presents for dairy farmers in Australia, as w...

While Sams interest in agriculture comes from working on his fathers sheep and dryland cropping farm, he is also interested in agronomy, efficient fertiliser use and how technology can make Austral...

Claudia Gerbert undertook the Bachelor of Agriculture at Melbourne.

The use of Corriedales in agricultural teaching programs by several Mornington Peninsula schools has sparked the setting up of three mini-studs in the region.

Current University of Melbourne Bachelor of Agriculture student Carl Young is one of the many who are benefiting. Carl grew up helping his parents maintain a large market garden growing baby salads...

Acclaimed virologist and academic Professor John Fazakerley has today commenced his role as Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Melbourne.

Two South Australian research partners have joined the Animal Welfare Science Centre (AWSC) to make the Centre one of the world’s largest animal welfare focused research groups.

The two-and-a-half weeks old animal was able to stand for a short period of time after medical staff removed casts from its front legs.