A national roadshow will throw new light on Australia’s oldest food crops, thanks to support from the Farming Together program The roadshow is being organised by Australian Native Food & Botanicals (ANFAB), representing 200 growers/harvesters from all across Australia. It has secured Australian Government support through the national Farm Co-operatives and Collaboration pilot program, known […]
A new truffle-growing co-operative is celebrating its first online sale, less than 24 hours after receiving marketing advice from Farming Together. The Australian Government-backed program provided the NSW/ACT truffle co-op with free advice that saw the first sale dispatched to a Queensland buyer. The group established a website one month earlier, but had not attracted
Business models will be the subject of a planning day for women in agriculture from Port Phillip and Western Port next week. Women in Sustainable Agriculture, (WiSA) totalling about 60 beef, sheep, permaculture, fruits, vegetables, bees, vines and pork producers, has received support from the national Farming Together program for the day. About 15 of
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Australia’s sheep, lamb and wool producers are the nation’s keenest to form collaborations, according to the national Farming Together program. In its first 10 months, the campaign encouraging farmers, fishers and foresters to form groups has attracted more sheep, lamb and wool projects than any other commodity group. A total 23.2% of applications have come
Join us at our national Farming Together forum in Adelaide on June 6 and feast your ears on these speakers: Dr Mike Briers AO, the CEO of the new Food Agility CRC, named as Australia’s chief evangelist for big data and the Internet of Things. He co-founded the agtech business, The Yield and is working
Primary producers are more concerned about information gaps between farmers than information gaps among the consumers of their products. A running survey of more than 200 people who have so far registered for the Farming Together forum on June 6 reveals that 48.5% of respondents identified information gaps between producers as an important issue in
An on-farm micro-abattoir service for small-scale meat producers is planning a major expansion mid-year … and farmers are invited to hear the story next month in Adelaide. The husband-and-wife team developing the service say there is appetite among farmers hoping to collaborate to establish regional micro-abattoirs. Prize-winning SA lamb producers Phil and Michele Lally recently
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Want to launch a co-op? Don’t know where to start? Australia’s first co-op builder will be free and online from next month. The Farm Co-op Builder has been developed by the national Farming Together program and will be launched on June 6. Developed in conjunction with Australia’s peak body for co-ops, the Business Council of
Our free monthly muster of national opportunities to boost your ag initiative… ALSO IN THIS EDITION… $10K sustainable ag grants ‘Green’ start-ups competition $10K and $20K animal welfare/environmental grants New $1.6m export assistance Wine scholarships Pork R&D tenders Supply chain help on offer Big-name scholarships: Nuffield, Rabobank and Marcus Oldham PLUS: More funding opportunities … nationally and state-by-state
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Australia’s croppers are harvesting more than grain. The data that is being harvested in rapidly increasing quantities will be a topic of discussion at the national Farming Together forum in June. Richard Heath, general manager research of the Australian Farm Institute, is participating in a Federal Government-funded project investigating solutions for big data in agriculture
The boss of Australia’s biggest crowdfunder will share finance insights with farmers at the national Farming Together forum in June. Alan Crabbe, co-founder and CEO of Pozible, will be a mainstage speaker at the forum held at the Adelaide Convention Centre on Tuesday, June 6. The Farming Together project has been helping farmers across the
