2023
AGRITECH AWARD
WINNERS
Agritech Startup of the Year - Sponsored by Telstra: DataFarming
Precision Agriculture should be affordable and easy to use is the motto of DataFarming and the reason they build simple, low cost precision agriculture solutions.
Established in 2017, the company is owned and operated by Australian precision agriculture specialists, Tim & Peta Neale, who are proud to work with agribusinesses, universities and R&D organisations, government agencies, agronomy service providers and individual producers across Australia and the world.
Australian Agritech Association Hall of Fame: David Holmgren & Bill Molison
Popularly seen as a ‘cool’ form of organic gardening, permaculture could be better described as a design system for resilient living and land use based on universal ethics and ecological design principles. Although the primary focus of permaculture has been the redesign of gardening, farming, animal husbandry and forestry, the same ethics and principles apply to design of buildings, tools and technology.
Beyond identification of specific projects within the broad church of Australian regenerative agriculture and enabling agri-technologies, permaculture has, perhaps more potently, worked as a positive agent of influence in shifting the focus towards the wise husbandry and regeneration of both natural and human capital more generally.
Best Founder - Sponsored by Bayer: RapidAIM
RapidAIM provide highly accurate, real-time pest detection information and forecasts to growers so they can take faster and more targeted management action, Their award winning IoT services use capacitance sensing and the worlds narrowband networks to send instant alerts to the growers phone via an app when target pests are present.
RapidAIM enables growers to target their control at the time of day when pests are most active and then validate when the control is working.
Best Early Stage - Sponsored by CEAT: CiboLabs
CiboLabs is and agricultural data analytics company that has bought a completely new approach to monitoring Australia’s grazing lands using satellite data and is aiming to underpin more profitable far,s and more sustainable landscapes. They combine world-leading science in remote sensing and machine learning with on-farm knowledge to bring new levels of understanding in pasture productivity and land condition to every farm, paddock or feild in Australia.
CiboLabs maintain close ties with world leading research institutions, leading farm management software companies and most importantly, directly involves farm managers in product and service development.
Best Scale Up - Sponsored by Agrifutures: Figured.
Figured’s mission is to improve the financial performance of farming, which they do by connecting financial advisors, farmers and producers, and capital providers in a shared online cloud management accounting platform built specifically to address the challenges of farming. By doing this, they believe they can ultimately contribute to the overall growth and success of agriculture across Australia.
Figured believe their commitment to making a positive impact, and their continual focus on how they can empower farmers to make informed financial decisions in an industry where volatility is the norm is what sets them apart in the agritech industry.
Best in Livestock - Sponsored by MacCap: Agriwebb
AgriWebb’s livestock management software helps you manage everything that matters to a farmer’s success. Record keeping, big-picture insights, team productivity tools, and the world’s most connected ecosystem of hardware and software integrations all come together, all in one place.
Over 16,000 farmers managing over 22 million animals worldwide trust AgriWebb to manage everything that matters to their farm, all in one place. Founded and led by 5th generation farmers, AgriWebb believes the farmers who power the livestock industry are also the stewards of our societys future, of a planet that is fertile and a population that is fed.
Best in Horticulture - Sponsored by SVG Thrive: Green Atlas
Green Atlas is an agricultural services company that assists tree-crop growers in managing the lifecycle of every fruit on every tree or vine in their orchard. Their orchard scanning system, called ‘Cartographer’, uses cameras and LiDAR mounted to a ground vehicle to scan crops at high speed with high reliability and repeatability. This patented imaging technology is unique and field proven, leveraging a decade of world - leading University research in the application on AI and Machine Learning to tree crops.
Green Atlas look forward to continuing our business expansion; through the addition of new geographies and regions; extension to new crops and phenological stages in addition to our already extensive list; and through investment in new automated technologies with the aim of increasing the specificity of the treatment of trees and vines to unlock orchard efficiencies that are simply not possible through manual labour alone.
Best in Broadacre - Sponsored by SproutX: DataFarming
Precision Agriculture should be affordable and easy to use is the motto of DataFarming and the reason they build simple, low cost precision agriculture solutions.
Established in 2017, the company is owned and operated by Australian precision agriculture specialists, Tim & Peta Neale, who are proud to work with agribusinesses, universities and R&D organisations, government agencies, agronomy service providers and individual producers across Australia and the world.
Best in Water, Aquaculture & Fisheries - Sponsored by Pivotel: SWAN Systems
SWAN Systems is the leader in irrigation technology optimisation, the industry’s first software and services suits that ensures the business of irrigation management. Their technology integrates, upgrades, and enables the strategic touch points between business and agronomy, ensuring your irrigation management practices always yeild the intended results.
Their holistic approach to irrigation management sets them apart from the competition. They leverage sophisticated algorithms and points of data across an operation to convert complex, confusing technologies into streamlined, efficient management systems. SWAN Systems are also not tied to a specific piece of hardware which allows the company to scale with their customers seamlessly and gives them the opportunity to integrate across a diverse range of operations. Essentially, this enables them to serve as the backbone of the entire agricultural water value chain
Best Food Tech - Sponsored by NAB: PostHarvest
PostHarvest are on a mission to reduce fresh produce loss in the food supply chain with its sensor technology. They’re driven by the alarming statistic that up to 45% of fresh produce is either lost or wasted each year. It is a problem that needs attention in many areas, and PostHarvest believe their sensor technology is a solution to a lot of early-stage problems within the supply chain.
This year is a milestone for PostHarvest as customer trials are underway and they’re looking to broaden their reach, so the increased visibility for their company via winning this award is welcomed warmly.
Ag Climate Tech - Sponsored by Climate Salad: Bardee
Bardee is the largest insect breeding, fertiliser and protein producer in Australia, and their products are helping to make agriculture more sustainable, offsetting carbon by diverting food waste from landfill, and replacing unsustainable feed and fertiliser in the food system. The vertical farming system Bardee use to transform waste, uses no additional water and produces two product streams: insect protein and frass fertiliser. These products can replace things like meat, and soy in the food system that have a big negative impact on the environment, like deforsitation and overfishing.
Reshaping the global food system to Bardee menas that transforming waste into useful products, they can create a more sustainable, circular food system that will feed generations to come.
