Tour 5 – Werribee food and agriculture precinct

This tour visits the food and agriculture precinct at Werribee with the first stop at the effluent treatment works operated by Melbourne Water. The works cover about 11,000 hectares, that uses three proven methods of treatment: lagoon filtration, land filtration and grass filtration. We will inspect this facility and discuss how it manages pastures that deal with large nutrient loads. At the Werribee science precinct we will visit Agrifood Technology, which conducts analysis on wheat and other grains, plus a diverse range of food products, stockfeed ingredients, hay, silage, finished feeds and water and soil, followed by discussions on grains processing and product development at the Food Science Australia laboratories.

Host – Rob Norton