Darling Downs Food & Fibre Awards

Toowoomba and Surat Basin Enterprise in partnership with Western Downs Regional Council are proud to launch the 2025 Darling Downs Food & Fibre Awards, celebrating businesses that drive biosecurity, innovation, and global trade. The awards play a crucial role in shaping a resilient, forward-thinking, and globally competitive food and fibre sector in the region.

2025 Darling Downs Food & Fibre award categories include: 

• Innovation Award
• Biosecurity Award
• Trade and Export Award

Nominate below! Nominations close on Tuesday, 17 June 2025. 

Toowoomba and its surrounding regions are a food producing powerhouse for Australia and we’re setting the standard for advanced manufacturing, innovation and automation integrations. Our region is creating efficiencies to enhance productivity and sustainability, support biosecurity preparedness and strengthen ESG impacts.

The food and fibre capability of our region is driven by the diversity of fresh and value added products grown and produced in these locations.

Some key facts about our region’s food capability include:

• Toowoomba region was the best performing region in Queensland 2023-24 worth $1.27 billion, followed by the Western Downs worth $951 million
• The value for broadacre cropping in our region for 2024-25 is $1.10 billion
• 65% of Australia’s beef feedlotting is in our region
• Approximately 85% of Queenslands egg production is in the South East
• Approximately 90% of Queensland’s pork production is concentrated in the South East Region.

The Darling Downs Food & Fibre Awards will be held on Thursday, 17 July 2025 in the Western Downs. 

We're looking for industry sponsors to support this event in it's first year!

TSBE Member price: $170 (TSBE Members - login to receive the member price)
Non-member price: $220