Student-owned agri-tech startup gains business boost from Microsoft
December 19, 2019
A student-based agri-tech startup company that has developed an inventive way to measure moisture, salinity and fertiliser content in soil has been accepted into a startup programme run by tech giant Microsoft.RH Innovation, which was set up by five students from the Univers...
evokeAG - 18 & 19 Feb 2020, Melbourne
November 14, 2019
Asia Pacific regions largest agrifood tech event which which allows delegates to explore what’s next in the agrifood tech space, covering three main themes; food – farm – future. evokeAG. is an immersive experience delivering diverse topics and cutting edge i...
MobileTechAg - 7 & 8 April 2020, Rotorua
November 1, 2019
Brings together 300 technology leaders, innovative developers, early adopters and the next generation of primary industry operators from throughout New Zealand and Australia. MobileTECH is an annual event showcasing the digital technologies transforming the agricultural, hor...
Taking ag-tech from Dunedin to Ethiopia and beyond
October 21, 2019
Otago-grown agricultural technology company Techion has cornered an international market. Its founder, Greg Mirams, explained how the internet of things and fast fibre broadband has transformed the way he does business.In a Dunedin bedroom in 1992, Greg Mirams invented Techi...
Are ewe kidding? How to tell sheep apart
October 21, 2019
Farmers may flock to a faster, cheaper and more environmentally friendly way to tell their sheep apart.Dunedin's Benoit Auvray and Greg Peyroux received funding from New Zealand's innovation agency, Callaghan Innovation, to p...
Milk company Miraka reporting farm-specific carbon emissions
October 10, 2019
In what it says is a first for New Zealand, this month Taupō-based dairy company Miraka will be reporting farm-specific carbon emissions for each of the over 100 farms it works with. The reports will give a detailed understanding of greenhouse gas emissions, and compar...
New technologies for monitoring water quality and improving outcomes for farmers are key themes among finalists in this year's NZ Aerospace Challenge.The brief for the challenge was to design solutions to identify, monitor or measure water or soil pollution using satellite d...
Big data the future for farming, says LIC
October 5, 2019
LIC's positive financial performance for the year will act as a catalyst to investment in technology and data platforms, the company says.Speaking at the dairy co-operative's annual meeting on Thursday, LIC chairman and Nelson dairy farmer Murray King said LIC was in a stron...
Farming ‘ripe for internet of things technology’
October 3, 2019
Innovation and sustainability were the threads running through a Grow Waikato event focused on the dairy industry in September.Gallagher deputy CEO Kahl Betham, one of five speakers at the forum held at Wintec’s Atrium, said the internet of things was having a huge impact ...
LIC has a new CIO
September 25, 2019
Andrea Black, current GM digital solutions at Genesis Energy, has been appointed CIO at agritech and herd improvement cooperative LIC.She replaces Paul Littlefair, who is now focusing on his director role at ICT consultancy Acuity Partners and as co-founder o...
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