Judy Kennedy

Cherry orchardist and entrepreneur, Mike Casey is stepping away from the diesel pump to reduce emissions and save tens of thousands of dollars annually – and he’s set to share how at evoke^AG. 2025.

As a teenager at boarding school in Perth, Matt Haggerty clearly remembers having ‘lots of arguments’ about why his family’s system of farming in Western Australia’s (WA) Central Wheatbelt was a viable alternative to conventional methods. Today, he’s devoting his time to learning about, and practicing, Natural Intelligence Farming, and educating customers about the system’s benefits.

Ticks; a tiny but mighty pain for the Australian beef industry, taking a $146 million-dollar bite out of the sector every year.
But after more than 18 years research which began in the Department of Primary Industries & Fisheries (now in the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries/QDAF), a vaccine is showing powerful potential to disrupt the life cycle of the cattle tick.
University of Queensland scientists Professor Ala Tabor and Dr Hannah Siddle of the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation share how they’re set to test their vaccine on 40 cattle in a proof-of-concept trial for commercial adoption.

A $60 million investment program designed to galvanise the research and adoption of agritech in regional farming areas has been launched by Charles Sturt University, Australia’s largest educator of agricultural students.