Kate O'Neill
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Laser weeder patent dispute locks growers out of affordable technology (opens the original)
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Vegetable growers say Australia is facing a market monopoly on labour-saving laser weeding technology after a US venture-capital-backed agtech firm secured patents in Australia that lock competitors out of the market. Carbon Robotics, which manufactures the LaserWeeder, took enforcement action on its patents in July, issuing a cease-and-desist letter to the Australian distributor of rival technology L&Aser - demanding two units be destroyed. The patent enforcement in Australia follows an ongoing
The young leader bypassing traditional carbon markets with a simple alternative (opens the original)
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Navigating carbon and environmental markets can mean wading through red tape, confusing methodologies, and daunting 25-year contracts. It's a frustration Carli Davis knows all too well. Now, through a partnership between her consulting firm, SEAOAK, and the UK-based 3Keel, the 32-year-old is offering farmers a practical alternative: Landscape Enterprise Networks (LENs). The funding model, which has been proven overseas, pools investment from large corporations like Nestlé or Diageo that are depe
Farm machinery reimagined: SwarmFarm founder recognised for robotic innovation (opens the original)
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SwarmFarm Robotics was born from a concept that bigger is not always better when it comes to farm machinery. Founders Andrew and Jocie Bate, who run a broadacre cropping operation near Emerald, had grown frustrated with the focus on building heavier, more powerful machinery that was expensive to buy, expensive to run and caused soil compaction. Rather than automate large machinery, they had a vision to create a new farming system. It would be made up of a "swarm" of small, lightweight autonomous
Meet the 32-year-old Bundaberg drone pioneer transforming farming from above (opens the original)
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It was an effort to rid his family's Bundaberg cattle property of giant rat's tail grass that sparked Jamin Fleming's interest in agricultural drones. He could see that tackling the problem weed from above would eliminate the issue of spreading seed when they drove over it. But it was at a time when spray drones were still a novel concept in Australian agriculture, and he struggled to find anything locally that was up to the task or easy to use. "We looked at a few other countries and how they w
Nikole's mental health program gives farmers the tools to help their mates (opens the original)
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Mental health support for farmers doesn't start in a waiting room - it starts in a shed, a paddock or over a cuppa with a trusted friend. That's the philosophy behind AgMind Australia, a peer-led, practical-rural mental health and wellbeing initiative that takes mental health out of clinical settings and into rural communities. Founded by Nikole Schellekens, a Bass Coast beef producer and mental health consultant with 20-plus years' experience, AgMind has delivered more than 20 workshops and pre
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