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