Mark Allison is the Managing Director and CEO of Elders, with a career in agribusiness spanning 43-years. Here Mark observes the ‘Five P’s’ for successful innovation and why we need more than just passion to bring agriculture closer to its productivity and sustainability goals.
Western Australia is fast cementing itself as the launching pad of trailblazing “agripreneurs” - innovators spearheading state of the art technology redefining the agricultural landscape.
From sustainable wine packaging to a technology turning rice straw waste into bio-asphalt, the innovations and opportunities these 40 startups businesses hold for the future of Australia’s food system are enormous.
Forty local and international startup businesses are gearing up to descend on Asia Pacific’s premier agrifood tech event, AgriFutures evokeAG., with the event’s 2024 Startup Program cohort announced.
Ten Australian growth stage agrifood tech companies have been selected by SVG Ventures|THRIVE to participate in their new Asia-Pacific (APAC) Accelerator program, based out of Melbourne, Victoria.
The push for Australian farmers to have the right to fix their own machinery has been in the headlines since a leading manufacturer reached a deal with farmers in the United States of America in 2021. Andrew Cooke and Andrew Skinner argue ‘the right to repair’ shouldn’t just apply to farm tools like tractors and headers, but also to data. They say while few producers are also technologists, every producer deserves to control and re-use their own data.
Developing innovative solutions and technology to make agriculture easier, more profitable, or sustainable is one thing, but getting farmers to use it is often a challenge. A new initiative by Farmers2Founders (F2F), is focused on breaking down the critical barriers to agtech adoption by putting the farmer first, building connections and removing some of the risk.
Waste warrior and insect farming pioneer, Olympia Yarger of agritech startup, Goterra, has earned the 2023 ACT Australian of the Year award for her commitment to tackling climate change. In this Humans of Agriculture x evokeAG. collab podcast, Oli Le Lievre unpacks Olympia’s diverse and entrepreneurial life experiences.