Government, industries and companies are stepping up their climate commitments and evokeAG. 2023 highlighted the opportunities and potential challenges for agriculture in tapping into the carbon market. A panel of experts working in this space argued there’s more than one way for farmers to cash in on soil carbon and climate friendly management practices, but that data is the key. This session was facilitated by Oli Madgett and brings together Stuart Austin, General Manager Wilmot Cattle Co, Dr ...
May 24, 2023•35 min•Season 3Ep. 7
The application of agritech is often positioned to improve operational efficiency, profitability and sustainability. Industry is now leveraging on-farm data and infrastructure to provide a more robust end-to-end supply chain. In this session, experts from three of Australia’s leading agri-corporates discuss the peripheral value drivers that producers should consider in their pursuit of digitising their business. In this episode, we hear from Dr Ben Baghurst is the Founder and Principal Consultan...
May 22, 2023•34 min•Season 3Ep. 6
In this episode we’re bringing you a panel discussion from evokeAG. 2023 presented by our Silver Partner CommBank. In this session the panel of industry experts concluded that measurement is not only vital but can deliver great opportunity on and off farm. Natasha Greenwood, General Manager Agribusiness, Commonwealth Bank facilitated the session and was joined by Dr Natalie Doran-Browne, Director of Science, Agricultural Emissions, FLINTpro, Tegan Nock, Co-founder and CPO, Loam, Robert Mackenzie...
May 16, 2023•37 min•Season 3Ep. 5
David Downs has had a fascinating career that’s seen him on stage as a comedian, a published author; he’s worked in leadership roles with Microsoft in New Zealand and the Asia Pacific and held a portfolio of interests across international trade, technology, economic development and charitable causes. It’s these skills as a storyteller and a leader that has culminated in his latest role- the CEO of New Zealand Story . In this episode, evokeAG contributor Jayne Cuddihy found there’s plenty Austral...
May 15, 2023•23 min•Season 3Ep. 4
In recent years the global appetite for sustainably sourced seafood, fishery and aquaculture products has increased. So too has the focus on finding solutions to overcome some of the challenges associated with aquaculture seafood operations. In this session facilitated by The Australian's National Rural Reporter, Charlie Peel industry leaders CH4 Australia General Manager, Dr Adam Main, Director of the not-for-profit Ocean Decade Australia, Dr Lucy Buxton and CEO of Austral Fisheries, David Cart...
May 14, 2023•34 min•Season 3Ep. 3
From designing crops for fuel production, to creating programmable cells to fight disease, synthetic biology or SynBio is big business. There’s also big interest and big backing from pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. In this session at evokeAG. 2023 four SynBio players ( Dr Natalie Curach, Ginkgo Bioworks, George Peppou, Vow Foods, Dr Lisa Ronquest-Ross, v2foods, and Michele Stansfield, Cauldron Molecules) share their thoughts on the advances in the field, the applications and what it ...
May 11, 2023•39 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Elders is a platinum partner of the evokeAG event, and recognises the value in nurturing relationships across the entire international agricultural supply chain. Elders' CEO Mark Allison has a strong vision for how Elders will continue to work with producers and industry to build a vibrant future. This epsiode includes Mark's presentation at evokeAg 2023, but first, our contributer Jayne Cuddihy wanted to know a bit more about Mark and what has driven him to pursue a career in agriculture. For m...
May 10, 2023•24 min•Season 3Ep. 1
This week we bring you another evokeAG x Humans of Agriculture collaboration podcast, with Oli Le Lievre. Oli chats with Dr Penny Schulz, the owner of a beef and sheep farm in Field, in the Coorong region of South Australia, who never thought she'd end up working in ag. Fast forward a few decades and Penny has become a champion for the sector - researcher, university lecturer, industry advocate, agritech entrepreneur and most recently, evokeAG Steering Committee member. Penny is a previous winne...
Feb 17, 2023•35 min•Season 2Ep. 77
This week we bring you an episode with Dan Winson, Co-Founder and CEO of dynamic agritech company Zetifi. Dan and Zetifi have been part of the evokeAG story since the beginning, and have made the most of the opportunities and connections established through the evokeAG. community. Zetifi is a Wagga Wagga based company that provides farmers with greater connectivity through their long range Wi-FI coverage extension products. And in late 2022, Zetifi closed its $12 million series A funding round ....
Feb 07, 2023•22 min•Season 2Ep. 76
Our global food system has a long history of evolution – responding to the changing needs of the global population. But "Are we evolving fast enough?" In this evokeAG. podcast internationally recognised thought leader and AgriFutures evokeAG. 2023 speaker, Mary Shelman, speaks with contributor Casey Dunn about how we can accelerate our transformation, and achieve a more sustainable global food system. Mary will also join a panel discussion on Day two at evokeAG. 2023 to explore the global forces...
Feb 06, 2023•37 min•Season 2Ep. 75
This week we bring you another evokeAG x Humans of Agriculture collaboration podcast, with Oli Le Lievre. Oli catches up with Julia and Jordy Kaye, the founders of greatwrap , a Victorian based startup creating a biodegradable alternative to petroleum based plastic wraps using potato waste to replace plastic cling wrap in kitchens and on industrial pallets. The circular economy business has attracted serious interest from investors, raising a $24 million Series A round in July 2022, including an...
Jan 16, 2023•48 min•Season 2Ep. 74
This week we bring you our evokeAG x Food Futurists collaboration series with Professor Andy Lowe exploring solutions today that will help drive sustainable food systems tomorrow. In this episode, Andy catches up with Jenny Mortimer, Associate Professor of Plant Synthetic Biology in the School of Agriculture, Food and Wine at the University of Adelaide to explore the possibilities of Synthetic Biology (SynBio) and how it could help to grow plants and medicine for astronauts living and working in...
Jan 11, 2023•38 min•Season 2Ep. 73
This week we bring you a podcast from AgriFutures growAG, the gateway to Australia’s agrifood innovation system. Our growAG contributor, Samantha Noon catches up with Tegan Nock, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Australian microbial tech startup, LoamBio, and Louisa Burwood-Taylor, Head of Media for Silicon Valley venture capital firm, AgFunder, and Chief Editor of AgFunder News – the go-to global investment news platform. Together they explore the key investment trends and noteworthy fun...
Dec 15, 2022•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 72
This week we bring you a podcast from Agrifutures growAG, the gateway to Australia’s agrifood innovation system, as we speak to Graeme Barnett the Managing Director & CEO of Qponics, a company that produces marine microalgae that is used for the co-production of protein-rich food ingredients and high-value oils. Qponics successfully developed a pilot farm in Brisbane, and now has plans to build a complex of six farms, each 100 hectares in size at South Ballina, in NSW, a region deemed the “G...
Dec 05, 2022•27 min•Season 2Ep. 71
This week we bring you a podcast from AgriFutures evokeAG exploring an end-to-end agrifood production giant from the country’s West. Owned by Andrew and Nicola Forrest, Harvest Road is part of one of Australia’s largest private investment groups, Tattarang. As a proud Western Australian agrifood producer, the company is plotting a course to rewrite the script when it comes to animal welfare and environmental sustainability across its three core brands delivering premium beef, seafood, and hortic...
Dec 02, 2022•27 min•Season 2Ep. 70
This week we bring you another evokeAG x Humans of Agriculture collaboration podcast, with Oli Le Lievre. Oli catches up with waste warrior and insect farming pioneer, Olympia Yarger, the CEO and Founder of Goterra, an agritech startup using robotics and black soldier flies to turn food waste into a protein source, used as animal feed and a nutrient-dense fertiliser. Earlier this month, Olympia was announced as the 2023 ACT Australian of the Year for her contributions in dealing with climate cha...
Nov 27, 2022•57 min•Season 2Ep. 69
This week, we bring you another evokeAG x Food Futurists podcast collaboration with Professor Andy Lowe, exploring solutions today that will help drive sustainable food systems tomorrow. In this episode, Andy speaks with Tony Hunter, a Global Food Futurist and consultant at Future Cubed. Tony delves deep into what the future of food might look like and how the industry may be shaped in the coming years, as countries around the globe look to strengthen food security and food sovereignty, while pu...
Nov 11, 2022•40 min•Season 2Ep. 68
This week, we bring you our evokeAG. x Food Futurists collaboration series with Professor Andy Lowe, exploring solutions today that will help drive sustainable food systems tomorrow. In this episode, Andy speaks with Genevieve Griffin-George, evokeAG. 2020 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. PICMI’s online tool reduces hiring time for g...
Nov 02, 2022•28 min•Season 2Ep. 67
This week our evokeAG contributor, Ken Eastwood interviews two interesting characters from Kangaroo Island, South Australia, who have formed a partnership that’s benefiting both their businesses and the environment. The first is Charlie Schmidt, head distiller at Kangaroo Island Spirits, who has overseen the rapid growth of the distillery – with a focus on making it more sustainable. The second is Elders stock agent Stuart Were, who has a small cattle operation on the island. He has begun feedin...
Nov 02, 2022•25 min•Season 2Ep. 66
This week we bring you another evokeAG. x Humans of Agriculture podcast, as part of our collab series with Oli Le Lierve. Throughout this series, we’ll shine a light on the people – from all walks of life – who make our global agrifood system so vibrant. We hear their stories of innovation, their diverse backgrounds, what drives them, and why shaping the future of food is so rewarding. In this episode, Oli catches up with Angeline Achariya, the executive director of innovation and growth at Simp...
Oct 19, 2022•41 min•Season 2Ep. 65
In this Food Futurists x evokeAG. collaboration podcast we take a look into a sustainable greenhouse solution for hot and dry coastal regions, often where conventional agriculture would otherwise be impossible. Professor Andy Lowe speaks to Charlie Paton, the founder of Seawater Greenhouse, a company that designs greenhouses that are powered by sunlight, utilise the seawater to water plants and also create a cooler and humid environment where plants can thrive and reduce evapotranspiration by up...
Sep 27, 2022•26 min•Season 2Ep. 64
In this Food Futurists x evokeAG. collab podcast Professor Andy Lowe speaks with Dr Moira Smith, Digital Content Analysis Technology (D-CAT) Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer. In this conversation Andy and Moira explore D-CAT’s involvement with agriculture, the range of possibilities satellite sensor technology offers, such as weight management, optimising grazing cycles and yield predictions. And why integration and collaboration is the key in allowing farmers to better utilise this techn...
Sep 10, 2022•31 min•Season 2Ep. 63
This week we bring you a podcast from AgriFutures growAG exploring the colossal challenge, which we face today, how to feed the world in 2050. Did you know there’s a 56% gap between the amount of food we make today and what we're going to need globally by 2050? Our AgriFutures growAG contributor, Megan Woodward caught up Phil Morle, Partner of Main Sequence Ventures, co-founded by CSIRO, and the leader of the ‘Feed 10 billion People’ challenge. Phil believes ‘radical collaboration' is going to b...
Aug 17, 2022•35 min•Season 2Ep. 62
Today we bring you our evokeAG. x Food Futurists collaboration series with Professor Andy Lowe, exploring solutions today that will help drive sustainable food systems tomorrow. Here Andy speaks with Peter Wren-Hilton, the CEO of Wharf42 a consultancy specialising in connecting local and international partners – particularly NZ startups and early-stage agritech companies – to support the Trans-Tasman agritech sector scale its global presence. Peter is also the Founder of Agritech New Zealand, Co...
Aug 11, 2022•27 min•Season 2Ep. 61
This week we bring you an important conversation about bees, the lifeblood of the food chain – responsible for pollinating one third of Australia’s food – and why protecting their existence, in the midst of a national biosecurity threat, the varroa mite, has never been of greater importance. Our AgriFutures evokeAG contributor Casey Dunn caught up with David Lyall, a commercial beekeeper, and CEO and Co-Founder of Bee Innovative, an Australian agritech startup revolutionising the centuries-old p...
Aug 04, 2022•32 min•Season 2Ep. 60
This week we bring you another evokeAG x Humans of Agriculture collaboration podcast with Oli Le Lievre. We hear from Anna Speer, the Managing Director of Woolworths' red meat business, Greenstock about what it's like working at the forefront of innovation and managing red meat supply chains during a pandemic – with agility top of mind. We learn about the importance of bringing people together, communication, and mentorship – and how work-life balance helps Anna drive meaningful change for the a...
Aug 03, 2022•49 min•Season 2Ep. 59
As the largest agricultural research and development organisation in the world, Bayer Crop Science is at the forefront of innovation. And to stay ahead of the curve, Bayer is collaborating with organisations outside of their own to unearth the next big breakthrough in science to advance agriculture. Our AgriFutures growAG contributor, Megan Woodward caught up with Phil Taylor, the Director of Open Innovation and Outreach for Bayer Crop Science, back in May to learn about their approach to unlock...
Jul 21, 2022•27 min•Season 2Ep. 58
This week we learn about the possibilities of space exploration, the benefits for agriculture and why global collaboration is so important – given that it’s expensive work. Our evokeAG contributor Oli Madgett speaks with Earth observation scientist, Hugh Mortimer who leads the UK’s Global Research Innovation Partnership (GRIP) program, which recently visited Australia. We hear about the collaborative work between the UK and Australia and why jointly funded space research will have a long-term be...
Jul 06, 2022•50 min•Season 2Ep. 56
This week we catch up with the CEO of Wine Australia, Dr Martin Cole. As one of Australia’s 15 Rural Research and Development Corporations (RDCs) – Wine Australia has been charging ahead with exciting agritech innovations to ensure Australia’s viticulture industry continues to thrive, off the back of a challenging period during the COVID-19 pandemic. Martin is optimistic about the future and believes innovation is key. Here our AgriFutures growAG contributor Megan Woodward speaks with Martin abo...
Jul 06, 2022•23 min•Season 2Ep. 57
This week we bring you an interview with a young trailblazer and an evokeAG Future Young Leader Alumni, George Chapman. George was selected back in 2020, to be part of the AgriFutures evokeAG Future Young Leader Program, where he took to the stage at evokeAG in Melbourne, to talk about the importance of soil health and share part of his regenerative agriculture journey. Originally from Coraki on the Northern Rivers, George now lives on the edge of the Nairobi National Park in Kenya, where he run...
Jun 30, 2022•21 min•Season 2Ep. 55
