#Agtech startups

Gearing up for long hours in the tractor cab? Doing the daily commute to the office? Or just pounding the pavement? Why not use that time to learn a bit more about agriculture and agtech in Australia and beyond.  
From business tips and cutting-edge tech to inspiring stories of life on the land, here’s our list of the podcasts you should add to your playlist right now.  
(Full disclosure: AgriFutures on Air and evoke^AG. both made the list…😉) 

Applications for the AgriFutures evoke^AG. Startup Program are now open, giving startups and scaleups the chance to rub shoulders, shake hands and sign on the dotted line with potential investors, partners, and customers at evoke^AG. 2025. For founders ready to step up, program manager Dallas Pearce shares six key tips for application success.

What do you get when Australia’s top agtech innovators collaborate, rather than compete? Solutions that make beef production easier, more productive, and more profitable.

AgriWebb, Farmbot, Cibo Labs, Pairtree, and Optiweigh share how they’re working together to give beef producers more bang for their agtech buck.

Agile, energetic, clever, and unflappable – the Australian Kelpie is beloved by graziers for its exceptional herding abilities. Now, a fourth-generation Queensland cattle producer has taken the wonder dog’s legendary mustering traits to new heights with SkyKelpie, a drone mustering company that’s levelling up traditional approaches to moving stock.

This week we bring you our evoke^AG. 2024 series with John Pattinson, Goanna Ag, and Phil Livingston, AgBot, joining our contributor Jayne Cuddihy in conversation.

It started over a crackly phone call with poor reception, but a partnership between two Australian farm-founded startups, Optiweigh and Agscent, is on a mission to deliver clear results for cattle producers, helping them measure their methane emissions in a pasture environment.

This week we bring you our evoke^AG. 2024 series with Ryan Rakestraw and Matt Macfarlane joining our contributor Jayne Cuddihy in conversation, exploring everything from what's ahead in the startup world tomorrow, to what's coming further down the road.

Western Australia is fast cementing itself as the launching pad of trailblazing “agripreneurs” - innovators spearheading state of the art technology redefining the agricultural landscape.

Mimicking thunderstorms, livestock disease detection, Artificial Intelligence (AI) for beekeepers and the world’s first real-time food and fibre verification tool are just some of the exciting innovations from companies selected to participate in the AgriFutures AgXelerate Program.

From little things big things grow. It's a well proven path for startups and scaleups, and one that AgriFutures Australia is hoping to accelerate for agrifood tech entrepreneurs and innovators through its AgXelerate Program.

Australian technology startup, Gasbot has ignited the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) industry, with an ultra-low-cost smart meter that’s giving near real-time visibility of tank storage levels to blue-chip utilities across the globe. Now, Gasbot is seeking partners to inform its development roadmap for the agriculture sector – and put its weather-proof and hack-resistant Agbot to work for every farmer.

Pairtree Intelligence CEO and Founder, Hamish Munro is helping farmers streamline decision making through data centralisation, enabling a holistic view of the farm to visualise, compare and analyse information from multiple sources. From lamb marking to harvesting crops, Dubbo mixed farmer, Jack Cresswell says Pairtree is helping save time and deliver value on-farm.