Riverine Plains Innovation Expo
Rebecca Dean recently attended the Riverine Plains Innovation Expo which featured:
Farm tours
Innovation focused field day, including trade displays and demonstrations.
Gala dinner with a microbial theme and scholarship auction.
Conference with topics ranging from sustainability to drones, mental health to making AgTech pay, plus decision making as well as a panel discussion from Australian agricultural industry bodies.
The following innovations and technology appear to have promise:
Microbial advances in legume production as well as Carbon conversion
Higher capacity harvest machinery
Automated and multi-task livestock handling devices
Digital monitoring devices to increase labour and resource efficiency in both grains and livestock production businesses
Thermal drone imagery capture
Grain trading platforms and compliance software