The centre has appointed 34 new employees in the past year.

The new staff have started roles with Agriculture Victoria, the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, and the Victorian Fisheries Authority.

Grains Innovation Park has also welcomed two new business tenants in the past six months - the Grains Research and Development Corporation and the RSPCA.

Park site leader and Agriculture Victoria research director Traci Griffin said the new employees came from across Australia and overseas.

"Majority of the new positions are with Agriculture Victoria - some of those roles are in digital technology, we also have new pathologists, pulse breeding research scientists, soil scientists, and agronomists," she said.

"This is great news for our senior research leaders who have the opportunity to grow and expand the agricultural research and innovation projects they are involved in.

"DELWP has also employed a number of new staff in its fire management team."

Ms Griffin said it was a fantastic boost for the region.

"The majority of people are coming from outside the Wimmera - we have people coming from Canberra, Sydney and Brisbane, along with international people," she said.

"They bring great social, cultural and economic benefits to the region."

"It also shows that Grains Innovation Park has all the capabilities and research facilities needed here in Horsham and working here is the equivalent of working anywhere else in Australia or internationally."

Grain's Innovation Park's origins started in 1967 when a group of passionate Wimmera farmers decided a grains research centre was needed in the region.

The centre - then named the Victorian Wheat Research Institute - was officially opened on November 29, 1968.

The park is now also home to the Australian Grains Genebank, Regional Development Victoria, and the Horsham Incident Control Centre.

Staff numbers at the site have increased from 150 to 170 in the past year, which takes into account staff who have left.

"This 170 does not include the influx of casual staff and seasonal workers we employ here throughout the year, including the very busy harvest and summer fire seasons," Ms Griffin said.

She said another 10 employees were due to start within the next six months.

The Grains Research and Development Corporation and RSPCA both open Horsham offices this year.

Ms Griffin said it was fabulous to have these businesses in the region.

"Especially the GRDC given its alignment with grains research - it's not just us that has a lot to do with them, all the regional stakeholders and farming groups benefit from their work."

Research student Eva Carreras Navarro completed a seven-month placement at Grains Innovation Park and will now return to the park next month as an employee.

Ms Carreras, who doing her Master's degree at the University of Melbourne, completed a study placement at the park.

She arrived in Horsham in February and spent seven months researching the impacts of elevated carbon dioxide on cereal aphids.

"Specifically, my experiments have sought to understand the effect that different nitrogen application rates have on wheat physiology and wheat-aphid interactions under elevated carbon dioxide levels," she said.

"The results from my experiments so far look very promising and my focus now will be on collating my research, and hopefully, publishing the findings."

Dr Piotr Tribicki, who supervised Ms Carreras, said her research project had a huge potential to increase understanding about how growers can keep crops free of pests and diseases and how the yield and quality of food products can be maintained or increased into the future.

"It is great to see that young researchers like Eva are willing to move to Horsham, which is a great workplace where they can make a difference," she said.

The GRDC officially opened its Horsham office in June.

Corporation chief executive Steve Jefferies said at the opening that the new office would complement other GRDC bases in Toowoomba, Wagga Wagga, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth.

It has been part of a regionalisation process for the Canberra-based statutory body.

"Over the past five years we've gone from having just three staff based outside Canberra to now having 46 per cent of the workforce outside head office, around 47 or 48 positions," Dr Jefferies said.

Grower relations manager for GRDC South Courtney Ramsey will be at the helm of the Horsham office.

She said being based in the Wimmera would give her a chance to hear from growers at a grassroots level, as well as liaise with the number of researchers based in Horsham.

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