Innovation Station

Agronomeye is building and delivering agriculture's first digital twin to help farmers to truly modernise their business. Agronomeye’s “Digital Foundation” is an ultra-high resolution replica of a farming system - incorporating imagery, elevation, classification (digital register down to every tree) and a water flow prediction model.

This valuable stack of data is a digital asset owned by the landholder and delivered through our “AgTwin” platform to be used for any purpose that may arise today and into the future.

Bee Innovative is unlocking global agriculture by maximising pollination. We have developed ‘BeeDar’, a radar-like sensor for bees that identifies tracks and reports bee pollination activity in near real time. This product revolutionises production. Producers can now identify areas of good pollination activity and more importantly poor pollination activity.

This critical information allows producers to recapture lost productivity, increasing crop yield, quality and value. BeeDarTM sensors are mounted on drones so they can track and report bee pollination activity on the scale of your crop.

Hillridge Technology connects overseas underwriters with Australian farmers to enable weather insurance and crop yield insurance that protects against extreme weather. The first products protect against drought, frost, heat stress and excess rain.

‘Have you ever dreamt about being able to pick up a smartphone and identify your livestock running down a race or in a paddock or in any environment in an instant from 3 metres away?’ The reality is getting much closer as the ‘iTRAK® system’ is utilising Retinal ID technology that is to be synchronised to Facial recognition to deliver real time identification in instant. This solution is called Retinal PLUS.

Onside is a digital check-in software for rural businesses that powers operations and protects people. We achieve this by streamlining operations, communications, compliance and biosecurity in a single solution. Our ultimate vision is to create a global rural network to revolutionize biosecurity.

Optiweigh was developed on a family farm to solve the problem of how to efficiently capture livestock weight data from the paddock – to give the information needed to pursue productivity gains. It is unique because it is super-portable and requires no other infrastructure or animal training. With the help of a salt or molasses block as an attractant the animals simply weigh themselves, day after day. Since 2019 over 200 units have been sold to all parts of Australia and customers have reported a quick return on investment – building a business with domestic and export growth potential.

Pairtree overcomes the issue of incompatible data silos as a service to the Australian agriculture sector to help our clients (farmers and agribusinesses) make the most of the smart farm revolution. Pairtree centralises disparate data sets into a single log in space, enabling ‘data stacking’ for higher level analytics and greater decision support at your fingertips.

There are two food recalls every week in ANZ. Whenever a food ingredient changes hands, the person receiving the goods needs to know: • Is it safe? • Does it meet the agreed specifications? It can take days to get test results back from the lab. To solve that problem, we developed CYBERTONGUE® technology, to deliver Laboratory Quality Results in Minutes. This gives food processors timely information about the quality and safety of their products. We are already building our first commercial test kit. We plan to expand to allergen and mycotoxin detection and we need more investment to do that.

SWAN Systems is a precision water and nutrient management platform that enables irrigators to improve yield whilst conserving resources. SWAN’s cloud-based software uses on farm data to help water managers to apply the right amounts of water and nutrients, at the right time. This ensures that only the resources required for optimal plant growth are used, helping farmers to do more with less.

TruckTracker is a mobile and web app that tracks the location of trucks when carrying livestock, sharing the data in real-time with the buyer and seller and acting as a conduit of digital information, to better manage livestock movements through the supply chain. Just like when you’ve ordered an Uber and can track it coming towards you, TruckTracker provides Livestock Producers, Transporters and Processors with assurance and peace of mind when moving livestock and delivers key efficiency gains that save time and money.