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Applications for The Earthshot Prize 2025 are open. With £1 million prize on offer, growᴬᴳ⋅ is helping homegrown innovators put their best foot forward
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Applications for The Earthshot Prize 2025 are open. With £1 million prize on offer, growᴬᴳ⋅ is helping homegrown innovators put their best foot forward

We’re in a critical decade to repair our planet, but progress on nature, air, oceans, waste, and climate is too slow. Global change isn’t happening quickly enough, or at the scale we need.

Written by Words by Casey Dunn

Monday, 4 November 2024

AI-driven technology transforming yield forecasts for grape and berry growers
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AI-driven technology transforming yield forecasts for grape and berry growers

As Australian agriculture faces increasing pressure to boost productivity and minimise environmental impact, especially with ongoing and pronounced dry conditions impacting crop yields, Bitwise Agronomy’s new AI-powered tool, Greenview, is set to revolutionise yield forecasting for grape and berry producers.

Thursday, 31 October 2024

LiveCorp wants faster solutions to industry challenges. Tweaks to existing agtech might be the answer
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LiveCorp wants faster solutions to industry challenges. Tweaks to existing agtech might be the answer

Australia’s livestock export industry is charting the course to more rapid solutions to industry challenges. Leveraging existing technologies, LiveCorp’s Open Innovation Pipeline supports tech partners to design, trial, tweak, and implement their solutions into the livestock export industry faster than using traditional R&D approaches.

Written by Casey Dunn

Tuesday, 29 October 2024

New Zealand agritech innovators focus on global expansion, starting in Australia
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New Zealand agritech innovators focus on global expansion, starting in Australia

A survey of New Zealand agritech innovators shows they have a strong appetite for global expansion, but most are looking across the Tasman to find collaborators and new markets in Australia first.

Monday, 21 October 2024

Australians look to World Agri-Tech to fill hort, grains investment pipeline
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Australians look to World Agri-Tech to fill hort, grains investment pipeline

For more than 30 years, Australia’s rural R&D corporations have partnered with traditional research providers to drive innovation that solves industry challenges. Now, they're also looking to the startup ecosystem for faster, bolder solutions that reach producers sooner. And they’re hoping to find them at World Agri-Tech in London.

Written by Casey Dunn

Tuesday, 8 October 2024

Sydney startup pioneering green hydrogen production using agricultural waste
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Sydney startup pioneering green hydrogen production using agricultural waste

With rising emissions from traditional energy sources and increasing pressure on the agricultural sector to reduce its carbon footprint, innovative solutions are needed more than ever. A Sydney-based startup, HydGene Renewables, is breaking new ground by transforming agricultural waste into green hydrogen to power the agricultural sector.

Tuesday, 8 October 2024

The easiest way to create connections across the international agrifood community
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The easiest way to create connections across the international agrifood community

Success in the agrifood industry isn’t just about what you know – who you know can often play just as big a role in reaching your end goal. Creating an online profile on AgriFutures’ growᴬᴳ⋅ platform can help you tap into an international database of nearly 500 organisations, creating connections...

Written by Michelle Meehan

Wednesday, 2 October 2024

Industry collaboration key to 'cutting-edge’ medicinal cannabis research
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Industry collaboration key to 'cutting-edge’ medicinal cannabis research

Pruning cannabis is labour intensive and costly, but a team of researchers from the QUT Centre for Robotics believe robotics and automation can help – and they’ve turned to AgriFutures growᴬᴳ⋅ to find growers to put it to the test.

Written by Emily Malone

Monday, 23 September 2024

New eco-friendly solutions to combat facial eczema in livestock
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New eco-friendly solutions to combat facial eczema in livestock

Agriculture sectors globally are facing mounting challenges in sustainable farming, particularly with the increasing pressures of climate change, environmental regulations, and the need for efficient resource use, New Zealand based AgResearch Ltd has emerged as a leader in developing eco-friendly solutions.

Written by Ingrid Lee-Scott

Friday, 13 September 2024

Resistant weeds are an urgent global challenge and a Trans-Tasman collaboration could initiate a solution
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Resistant weeds are an urgent global challenge and a Trans-Tasman collaboration could initiate a solution

Those who know me will attest to three of my passions: plant genetics, agricultural sustainability, and movies. If you’re a fan of the epic space franchise Star Wars, you’ll remember when Anakin Skywalker was told, ‘Your focus determines your reality.’

Written by Kioumars Ghamkhar 

Monday, 9 September 2024