The National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) has dubbed the Regional Tech Hub an essential service ahead of major changes to telecommunications in the bush…Read More
Beef Central, 15/04/2026
A New Zealand-based agtech company has recently completed one of the biggest known capital raises in the sector, with the company now boasting a value of $2.9b (US$2b)…Read More
Beef Central, 25/03/2026
Virtual fencing is now available in Victoria with the State Government approving one product for commercial use…Read More
The global economy is bracing for major job disruption as artificial intelligence (AI) advances and spreads across industries. Experts have been warning about this shift for years, and fiercely debating whether the benefits of an AI revolution will outweigh the cost of mass displacement in the workforce…Read More
Sophia Duan and David A. Fleming-Muñoz, La Trobe University, 11/02/2026
South Australian livestock producers will soon have access to virtual fencing, with the technology legalised this week. ..Read More
Beef Central, 17/12/2025
What do the people working the land make of articificial intelligence? We interviewed dozens of Australian farmers about AI and digital technology, and found they had a sophisticated understanding of their own needs and how technology might help – as well as a wariness of tech companies’ utopian promises…Read More
Tom Lee, University of Technology Sydney, 02/07/2025
Victoria is set to follow most other Australian states in legalising the use of virtual fencing technology for managing livestock…Read More
Beef Central, 22/05/2025
Livestock SA is calling on the South Australian Government to urgently reform outdated regulations that continue to block livestock producers from using virtual fencing, as New South Wales becomes the latest state to legalise the technology…Read More
Beef Central, 02/05/2025
One of Australia’s agtech success stories has crossed a significant milestone, with the delivery of the 1000th Optiweigh unit to one of the company’s early adopters…Read More
Eric Barker, 30/01/2025
A North Queensland cattleman who became a quadraplegic after a car crash has received a bursary to become a drone pilot, to assist with work on his family’s cattle property…Read More
Beef Central, 29/01/2025
What if protein was no longer a limiting factor in our northern beef systems? Qld beef industry RD&E professional Dr Lindsey Perry looks at how small-scale, on-farm ‘green’ ammonia technologies could provide localised systems to potentially fill the protein gap in future…Read More
Lindsey Perry, 20/12/2024
It has long been a dream for the industry to be able to predict the eating quality of live animals, and that dream is close to becoming a reality, MLA has reported today…Read More
Beef Central, 26/11/2024