Aussie start-up AgUnity, already boasting of a string of wins for its blockchain-based AgLedger app, which helps boost efficiency and income for some of the world’s poorest farmers, will go global in 2018, pitching to major investors at the World AgriTech Innovation Summit in San Fran and at the Global Future Agro Challenge in Turkey.

Innovation Central’s new ‘farm tough’ decision platform, designed to streamline the collection and transfer of on-farm data for climate, soil moisture, pasture and animal performance, could help end rural Australia's ‘data drought’, claims project partner Cisco.

Holistic deer farmer, paddock-to-plate blogger, culinary whizz, farm-tour host and social media advocate: Sophie Hansen, this year’s RIRDC Rural Woman of the Year award-winner, is keen to help farmers connect with foodies online.

Sensor tech and ‘smart’ apps can help boost farmers’ bottom lines, but fast internet access would be handy, says award-winning fourth-gen farmer and Nuffield Scholar Jock Graham.

Many of today’s farmers rely as much on smart mobile devices as they do on tractors – but when it comes to what apps to download, even techno-savvy farmers flounder. Fortunately, free help is at hand.

The rollout of Australia’s national broadband network (NBN) is set to transform rural life and business, giving farmers fast round-the-clock access to everything from real-time data on soil and livestock to troubleshooting, teleconferencing...