AGT is an innovative grain breeding company building on the century old traditions and achievements of South Australia's Wait and Roseworthy wheat breeding programs and Victoria's, Horsham program. AGT is committed to releasing only well-adapted varieties offering superior combinations of agronomic yield and grain quality characteristics.

The company has been restructured to react quickly to market trends as well as to consumer and grower demands for new products, while maintaining the traditional high standards demanded of Australian cereal breeding. Our formation and operations are evidence of Australia's on-going commitment to quality improvement through market-focused grain breeding and to retaining the nation's pre-eminent position in world grain production and quality.

While AGT is based in SA, it has important operational nodes in Victoria and WA along with a network of experimental sites extending throughout the grain growing regions of Australia. The company has direct access to genetic material developed through the previous public wheat breeding programs in SA and Victoria. This ensures continuity of more than 100 years of selection and genetic improvement by Australia's dedicated plant breeding community.

The company's aims are:

• To build a world-leading wheat breeding program
• Breeding of new varieties with higher yields and quality characteristics that meet market requirements.
• Developments in biotechnology, pathology and improved quality evaluation methods.
• Research and Development in plant breeding related disciplines, including biotechnology, agronomy, physiology, biometrics, pathology, biochemistry aimed at improving the productivity and quality of the Australian Grains Industry.

The Australian grains industry can be proud of its productivity increases in the past decade. AGT plans to build on this so that growers and out cereals and cereal products can become increasingly competitive in the world trade. Our team of experienced cereal breeders is combining the latest developments in plant breeding and genetic technologies with traditional plant-breeding principles. The result will be the development of superior quality varieties faster.

The company's commercial focus means its success depends on its ability to meet the demands of growers and their markets. Consequently, growers and other grains industry players will have a major influence on AGT's direction and breeding policies through their decisions about what varieties they will, or will not grow, and the quality types AGT targets.

SunPrime Seeds Pty Ltd, trading as AGT Seeds, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Australian Grain Technologies (AGT).  AGT Seeds, through its' parent company AGT, is closely linked with the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC), South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI), GrainCorp, The University of Sydney and The University of Adelaide. 

The AGT-SunPrime genetic portfolio includes the former Roseworthy and Waite breeding programs in South Australia, the Victorian DPI program at Horsham and the well known "Sun" varieties from the Narrabri Plant Breeding Institute as well as material from our own wholly owned subsidiary company SunPrime Research and Development based at Tamworth in NSW.  Our breeding footprint covers Australia and we aim to produce better varieties faster.

Our mission is to supply Australian farmers with high quality seed lines at a reasonable cost.

Most AGT Seed varieties are under Plant Breeders Rights with royalties being directed back to breeding projects, to continue the search for better varieties for all Australian producers.