Picture this: a dimly lit conference room with a single beam of light illuminating a pedestal of earth – a stark contrast to the buzz of the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre.
At evokeAG 2025, no topic was off-limits. In the second instalment of our You can’t ask that series, we asked industry leaders to grapple with an uncomfortable question: Is rural sledging of city folk fuelling the city/ country divide?
Saddle up for their take on whether we’re the ones burning bridges – and how we can repair them.
In a packed breakout session at evokeAG. 2025, three industry leaders joined 200 delegates to workshop how farming with nature could unlock agriculture’s next productivity leap. But we need to change some things first.
Behind every flashy product launch is a slow grind of trial, error, and the occasional flop. At evokeAG. 2025, leaders from the pork, beef and fisheries industries stripped back the spin to share what it really takes to embed technology in agriculture.
Here, they share 7 essential truths about what makes agtech stick (or stall).
Limited budgets, inconsistent definitions and no regulation - BloombergNEF’s Hugh Bromley explains challenges of using regen ag to meet emission reduction targets.
As the world’s fourth biggest economy with 280 million people, Indonesia’s fast-changing income levels, diet, urbanisation and technology adoption offers high-value opportunities for premium Australian fruit, nut and vegetable exports.
US space tech scaleup, Planet Labs’ fleet of approximately 200 mini satellites scan the Earth every day to provide daily high-resolution satellite imagery, and it’s arming landholders with the data to make more informed decisions. Farmer-owned co-operative, Organic Valley is reaping the rewards since teaming up with Planet Labs to develop a pasture mapping tool, that’s helped dairy farmers increase pasture utilisation by 20 per cent.
What will the future of food look like? Andy Lowe speaks with Tony Hunter, a Global Food Futurist and consultant at Future Cubed about how the agrifood industry may be shaped in the coming years as countries around the globe look to strengthen food security and food sovereignty while pursuing sustainable outcomes.
In this Food Futurists x evokeAG. collaboration podcast, Andy Lowe speaks with Genevieve Griffin-George, a former evokeAG. Future Young Leader and Founder of PICMI, a digital recruiting platform that helps speed up the process of hiring seasonal workers and takes the stress away from growers in managing the HR process.
‘Nature tech’ is gathering pace, offering adaptive soil microbial solutions that help scale up the planet’s ability to heal itself, and improve food security. Ben Barlow, Managing Director of New Edge Microbials and evokeAG. 2023 speaker, is ahead of the curve – with proven biological inputs that drastically reduce a crop’s carbon footprint and deliver a host of production outcomes for farmers.
