Hort Innovation 2025/26 Annual Report now available

Hort Innovation has released its 2025/26 Annual Report, covering investment, industry collaboration and on-the-ground impact across Australia’s $18.4 billion horticulture sector over the past financial year.

Prepared for members, horticulture levy payers, the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) and other stakeholders, the report provides an overview of Hort’s performance and progress during 2025/26, and highlights key activities and outcomes.

In 2025/26, Hort Innovation invested $175.3 million of industry levy and matched funds, supporting work to lift productivity, improve access to technology and crop protection, strengthen biosecurity, grow local and global demand, and build industry capability.

“Australian horticulture continues to show clear momentum and opportunity, but growers are also navigating rising costs, labour constraints, biosecurity risks, seasonal variability and changing consumer expectations,” Hort Innovation CEO Brett Fifield said.

“These realities reinforce the importance of investing in solutions that are practical, relevant and shaped by industry priorities. While progress has been made, we know there is more work to do to ensure growers can clearly see the value created through their investment and benefit from it sooner.”

The report also looks at the completion of the Hort Innovation Strategy 2024-2026 and at Strategy 2031, informed by more than 1,000 growers and industry stakeholders through the Horticulture Investment Roadmaps.

Access the 2025/26 Annual Report here.