New generation anti-obesity medications are changing as fast as global waistlines with predictions the impact on the food sector will be “bigger than climate change”.
Ringer. Rodeo champion. Film Producer. Luke Chaplain is no stranger to pushing boundaries. But his latest feat might be the boldest yet. At evokeAG. 2025, he delivered a world-first: Mustering cattle on a farm 300 km away, all from a remote ops centre set up deep within the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre.
No helicopters, horses, or motorbikes – just precision, low-stress stock handling, done via drone.
(Spoiler: If you’re picturing grainy, shaky footage and stubborn cattle, think again.)
AusAgritech President, Rob Hulme has an impressive agritech resume, spanning the full spectrum of the sector in Australia and overseas. If Australia is to reach $100 billion in annual economic output by 2030, he says there are some changes we’re going to have to make.
Rising fuel costs and the growing momentum towards net zero emissions are putting renewable energy sources on the radar for Australia’s diesel-dependant farmers.
Biotechnology is changing the lens through which we understand biology, and in doing so is transforming our approach to health and nutrition. Here we explore four companies and innovative applications of this rapid developing field.
Award-winning high school teacher Scott Graham, from Barker College in Sydney, is a leader in the field of agricultural education. In eight years, he’s helped more than triple enrollments of agriculture students at the College, is examining how to improve agriculture teaching at high school for his PhD and has picked up a Prime Minister’s Prize for Science. Here’s why he thinks that attending AgriFutures evokeAG. is some of the “best professional learning that a teacher can do” and some tips for making the most of it.
When Future Young Leader Malkah Lara-Muckenschnabl stepped off the stage at AgriFutures evokeAG. after presenting her vision to revolutionise recruitment in agriculture, her phone lit up with messages of congratulations and potential networks to bring that vision to life. In this Humans of Agriculture podcast with Oli Le Lievre, Malkah talks about her childhood on farms in South America, her innovative idea to break down the barriers between agricultural employers and employees, and how applying for the Future Young Leaders program was a risk worth taking.
The Australian Government set a target of net zero emissions by 2050, there’s industry-driven sustainability frameworks for key agricultural commodities and momentum is building to account for natural capital in our farming systems. And increasingly consumers want more information about how their food is produced and banks too are looking at ‘green’ credentials. At evokeAG. 2023 two end-to-end players from the beef and grain supply chains outline why sustainability matters to them and what they’re doing to address it.
