The Long Game Part 2 - The power of connection
Unearthed: The people changing Australian agricultureShow Notes
Unearthed continues the celebration of 25 Years of the Rural Women’s Award by delving into the next chapter of its the evolution. After emerging from the shadows in the previous episode, leading rural women are now in the spotlight and facing new and unexpected challenges. Through the use of design thinking, new support networks and alumni connections are created resulting in greater collaboration and diversity in the agricultural workforce. Looking ahead, the conversation envisions a future where the award continues to empower women and expand its reach within rural communities.
More from Unearthed: The people changing Australian agriculture
When a milking shed becomes a classroom, eyes light up, brains are activated and lifelong memories are made. Narelle Zanker's 'have a crack' attitude dramatically altered her career path from promising young teacher to the title of AgriFutures 2026 Rural Woman of the Year. Her business Dairy Adventures combines her love of education and agriculture in a farm tour experience that has attracted more than 2000 visitors since opening less than two years ago, and in doing so she is blazing a new trail for bridging the city-country divide.
Kelly Shotton is a pilot, an electrician and a marathon runner. She designed an app to monitor livestock watering points on remote stations and won the NT Rural Woman of the Year award. Now she's the AgriFutures National Rural Women's Award Runner Up. Her former boss Anna Cochrane says Kelly is one of the most determined people she’s ever met, and regardless of the challenges and struggles, she always achieves her goals.
Meet the Australian farmers boldly going where no farmer has gone before, applying technology that can manage a crop down to individual plant level, and using a staff of hyper-cybernetic robots to manage their operations.
In a crowded era of agtech innovation and hype, what sets the Rice Dashboard apart from the pack? The decision support platform has been adopted by 95% of Australia's rice growers - an incredible success considering that 90% of agtech start ups don't survive. So what did the developer's of the Rice Dashboard do right? It started with a whole of industry approach connecting everyone from growers to researchers.
Big capital meets big questions for Australian agriculture: Institutional investment in Australian farmland is increasingly becoming a defining force for agriculture. Capital unlocks innovation and scale, but what are the trade-offs? In this episode of Unearthed, we hear from Liam Lenaghan of GO.FARM and Jaclyn Hope from LAWD, both panel guests at evokeAG earlier this year, where they discussed the pros and cons of institutional investment in Australian agriculture.