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Listed under:  Economics and business  >  Industries  >  Primary industry  >  Agriculture  >  Crops  >  Cereal grain
Listed under:  Economics and business  >  Economy  >  Consumption  >  Consumer goods  >  Food products  >  Cereal grain
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Biofuels

  • TLF-IDM020825

This is a unit of work about ethanol and other biofuels. The unit revises students understanding of the carbon cycle and renewable and non-renewable fuel sources. The inquiry focuses on a series of experiments that examine the effect of temperature on the fermentation of yeast and to determine the flash point of ethanol ...

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Biofuels – From Sorghum to Ethanol (video)

  • TLF-IDM020826

This is a video [6:05 min] about the production of ethanol from sorghum at the Dalby Bio-Refinery in Queensland. The video describes and illustrates the stages in the production process including milling the sorghum into ‘flour’; mixing the flour with water to hydrolyse the starch; adding enzymes to liquefy the starch (the ...

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Post-harvest grain losses in Sub-Saharan Africa

  • TLF-IDM017160

This is a three-and-a-half-minute video promoting the case for investment in reducing the huge amount of grain lost to post-harvest pests and decay in Sub-Saharan Africa. It begins by highlighting the extent of grain losses, pointing out that they equal 20 per cent of all grain harvested, would have been worth about US$4 ...

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Food and Fibre Card Game

  • TLF-IDA005026

In this card game, students explore the career opportunities in the Australian grains industry. Students examine the Australian grain supply chain and view real-life examples of the various roles in the production and distribution of grain products and the technologies driving advancements within the sector. From seed ...

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Growing Australian Grains

  • TLF-IDA005024

This series of lessons is about innovations and technologies in the cropping industry. Students explore the development of new varieties of productive plants in a changing climate, and technologies that generate data to enable improved risk management and crop decision-making by producers. They then investigate the role ...

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Winter Wheat & Summer Sunflowers

  • TLF-IDA005027

This series of four lessons is about the role of wheat and sunflowers in agriculture. Students explore the needs, features and life cycles of the plants, grow their own wheat and sunflower sprouts and examine the nutritional contribution of wheat and sunflowers and how they are processed. Each lesson is supported by teacher ...

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