Ginger Ninja: Automating disease detection in seed ginger stock

Pests and diseases pose a significant production concern to most ginger growers and are a constant threat to yields. Fusarium, …

Rapiscan RRT-110 system upgrade accuracy validation

Rapiscan have successfully manufactured customised imaging components and software to adapt the RTT-110 airline inspection CT for carcase assessment, with …

Development of a Smart Shearing Handpiece

Shearing handpieces have remained relatively unchanged since mechanisation. This investment will examine the opportunity to design smarter handpieces that incorporate …

Smarter Irrigation 2: Smart irrigation control for water and labour savings in rice growing systems

This project aims to develop automated sensing and control for reduced water input rice farming systems. As the Australian rice …

Smarter Irrigation 2: Key Learning Sites Southern (making the most of water)

This project aims to increase water productivity and profitability by expanding growers’ knowledge of irrigation technology and best practice management. …

CottonInfo Irrigation Field Days

The principal outcome of the CottonInfo program is to provide an efficient and effective pathway for the delivery of the …

Gwydir Valley demonstration of the application of the latest digital technologies for precise automated irrigation

Automation of irrigation in the Australian cotton industry has the potential to improve water productivity, whilst addressing challenges of optimising …

Standardised antimicrobial testing

One of the key steps in controlling and managing bacterial infections in animals is by accurate identification of infections, and …

Smarter Irrigation 2: Gwydir demonstration of latest digital technologies for precise automated irrigation

Automation of irrigation in the Australian cotton industry has the potential to improve water productivity, whilst addressing challenges of optimising …

University of Southern Queensland Centre for Agricultural Engineering (CAE)

University of Southern Queensland's Centre for Agricultural Engineering (CAE) was established in 1994 to specialise in developing solutions for a sustainable …

Real time monitoring of water quality and mechanisation of pond management to boost productivity and increase profit

Aquaculture is conducted largely on experience often driven by “gut-feel” in response to biological demands and environmental constraints of production …

Meat Industry Efficiency and Innovation Capacity Enhancement: Benchmarking Technologies and Systems from Automotive Industry

This project will focus on accelerating the adoption of new technologies by benchmarking the competitive and sustainable Automotive manufacturing industry …

Countrywide Metals Pty Ltd T/A Cavalier Engineering

Countrywide Metals Pty Ltd trading as Cavalier Engineering and Budget Steel. The business has been 32 years in operation. Mainly servicing …

Australian Vanilla Plantations

Australian Vanilla Plantations aims to commercialise vanilla research completed by an Australian university and create a viable vanilla industry.

On-line measurement of the physical properties of each cane consignment at the factory

Harvested cane supplied to sugar mills in Australia comprises billets of the cane stalk, leaves, tops and roots, with everything else classified as extraneous matter (EM) that doesn't contribute to the quantity of sugar produced. This project is investigating the use of computer vision and machine learning to measure various parameters in the cane brought to the mill, to improve supply and processing.

Aquatic AI – automated aquaculture investment opportunity

Opportunity for

• Investors and commercial partners interested in a novel, sustainable aquaculture production system start-up
• Partners able to support business scale-up with commercial acumen in: seafood distribution expertise, export market development and networks, global fine dining restaurant expertise and connections, international marketing, business/finance expertise that supports subsequent capital fund raising rounds.
• Partners to join the board of directors to guide organisation growth. 

Ripe Robotics: AI enabled fruit harvesting robot – $2.8 million seed investment round

Opportunity for

• Seed & Series A stage investors in AI, agtech, or robotics.
• Investors aligned on the importance of AI over the coming decades, and who have or are building the expertise and networks to have an impact on the direction the world goes with this technology.

GrainInnovate – AgTech Venture Capital Fund

Opportunity for

• Individuals and companies building a technology-enabled early stage business with application to Australian grain growers
• Equity investors interested in exploring co-investment opportunities relevant to the Grain Innovate Fund

SparkLabs Cultiv8: CleanTech Accelerator

Opportunity for

• Early-stage startups and entrepreneurs looking to scale
• Scientists or researchers looking to commercialise innovations
• Innovations from other industry sectors that could be applied to agriculture
• Pre-seed or seed-stage (typically) start-ups that have a working prototype or proof of concept.

LiveCorp: Proof of concept trial for automated data collection - animal counting – innovation challenge

Opportunity for

• Innovators, solution providers and startups/scaleups/SME’s with commercial solutions ready for proof of concept in livestock export industry
• On-farm livestock technology and RFID scanning technology providers.