Tech

Australia’s agrifood industry is being invited to help shape the program for evoke^AG.’s first online Global Demo Day, with a call to nominate everyday problems not already addressed by local tech providers.

Silicon Valley engineer Naeem Zafar is single-handedly disrupting the post-harvest ag industry using machine learning and IoT to predict the quality of crops in storage and transit – and it’s all thanks to a sliding doors moment involving a group of Australian executives searching for storage solutions for the grain industry. 

South Australian agritech startup GoMicro uses a combination of simple and sophisticated technologies, including microscopic attachments and blockchain, to rethink quality assessment standards and access to agronomist advice. Now the startup is raising pre-seed funding.

Tractors and trucks will become roving WiFi devices with a range of up to 5 kilometres, as part of a new Food Agility CRC research collaboration to provide farm-wide internet coverage.

A joint effort by the red meat sector and government has delivered sought-after shelf-life extensions for vacuum-packed chilled sheepmeat and beef exports to key markets in the Middle East. However, innovative packaging and freight solutions are still required to extend shelf life of fresh sheepmeat carcase exports – which accounts for the bulk trade to the Middle East – to capture similar value and recover from the COVID-19 induced airfreight capacity crunch.

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