Posts tagged "farming and agriculture"

To separate agriculture from the issue of climate change is to ignore the utterly interdependent relationship of the two.

Trust Provenance's end-to-end food traceability offering, delivered through blockchain technology, could boost consumer trust.

Federal and state governments, in partnership with industry bodies, need to prioritise the future of Australian agriculture.

So why do we need to encourage young people into agriculture and farming? It’s simple: not enough people are taking up careers in agriculture.

From collecting data on harmful fruit flies to help a whole community of agribusinesses, to replacing dated paper systems with online platfo…

Applications are now open for BlueChilli’s second Westpac Innovation Challenge.   Last year’s competition focused on disrupting the rea…

More needs to be done to shake off the stereotypes of old farmers unable to operate new technology in order to encourage more people to take…

Earlier this month, StartupSmart wrote about Edward Lincare, a former student of Swinburne University, who won this year’s James Dyson Awa…

Swinburne University graduate Edward Linacre is the winner of this year’s James Dyson Award, receiving $14,000 for an irrigation system th…

Queensland farmer Ray Daniels has invented a robotic harvester capable of picking and sorting strawberries, which he hopes will eliminate ha…

Milking cows isn’t an obvious path to website design but entrepreneur Tim Gentle says moving to a rural area proved to be the perfect way …

Producing almost 100,000 bunches of fresh herbs every week is no mean feat in a nutrient-starved nation like Australia, but Jan Vydra a…