Rabo Farm2Fork Welcome
by Peter Knoblanche, Rabobank Australia CEO, and Stefaan Decraene, Chair of the Rabobank Group Managing Board

Sustainable Capitalism | Every question a business leader should ask themselves
by Paul Polman, Former Unilever CEO

The Top 10 Macro-Economic trends of this Era
by Jan Lambregts, Head of RaboResearch Global Economics & Markets, UK

Gut feeling vs data driven results
by Brad Egan, Egan Farming

From Seed to Salad: Sustainability in Action
by Jay Clarke, Woodhaven Gardens Australia

Technology Showcase | Bionic Glove
by Chris Fitzgerald, RIM Services

What’s happening in the world of AI / Robotics / Drones
by Steven Kassiou & Paris Cockinos, Sphere Drones

Packaging and circularity joint venture with PACT, Coke, Asahi, Cleanaway
by Jonathon West, PACT Group

Future Farming is now ... Are you ready?
by Luke Chandler and Emma Ford, John Deere

Unearthing opportunities in sustainability
by Berry Marttin, Rabobank Managing Board Member Wholesale & Rural

Turning waste into resource
by Jordy & Julia Kay, GreatWrap

The Path to Nature Positive Production
by Vicki McColl & Kate Beddoe, Silver Fern Farms

A community's vision for circularity
by Barry Irvin, Bega Cheese Ltd

From milking cows to managing a business at scale
by Hans Nederend Jr, Dairy Farmer USA

Start-Up Pitch | Bee Hero
by Omer Davidi

Panel: Disrupting the Food & Fibre Chain

by Tim Hunt, F&A Consultant. Panellists: Callan Daley, MEQ | Danielle and David Statham, Sundown Pastoral, Good Earth Cotton | Prof. Michelle Colgrave, CSIRO | Sonia Shekar, Foodbytes by Rabobank

Panel: Navigating the most significant Supply Chain Trends

by Nick Fereday, RaboResearch F&A North America. Panellists: Sarah Heazlewood, Woolworths Group | Mark Wynne, Ballance Agri-Nutrients | Lucy Macdonald, Middlehurst Station | Mark Ryan, Tassal | Andrew Fletcher, Fonterra

Great Wrap

Great Wrap is a materials science company aiming to end reliance on petroleum-based plastics through the development of home compostable cling film and pallet wrapping for corporates, all made with food waste and a mix of compostable biopolymers.

MEQ

MEQ has developed world-first software and hardware driving a data-driven digital future for the global red meat industry. Covering the entire supply chain, MEQ aims to radically change the efficiency, quality, nutritional and environmental impact of the meat we eat.

LYRO Robotics

LYRO Robotics creates robots for post-harvest picking and packing of fruits and vegetables, helping solve agricultural labour shortages whilst simultaneously allowing growers to focus on higher-value tasks.

Think Digital

Think Digital is a leading innovative XR studio creating VR, AR and AI solutions for agriculture, to assist with marketing, education, training and on farm productivity gains.

Hone

Hone provides farmers and their advisors with reliable measurement solutions; from assessing grain quality to providing rapid soil measurement for assessment of carbon stocks, The Hone Lab provides real time results in a handheld device and software enables farmers to share measurements with their team.

Nonobubble Agritech

Nanobubble Agritech build machines that put ultra-high concentrations of oxygen into irrigation water for increased productivity, crop yields, and improved in water-use efficiency – all fully integrated within farmers’ existing irrigation infrastructure.

Conservis

Conservis has developed visionary software that simplifies farm management and empowers farm business owners to make informed, smarter and data-driven decisions, leading to on-farm improvements and opening doorways to loans, streamlining tasks, making decisions clearer, tracking annual yield, and maximizing profits.

BioScout

BioScout is a high-tech solution to combatting airborne pathogens whereby fully autonomous, on farm technology units can track airborne diseases, ensuring farmers are equipped to spray based on data rather than intuition and symptomatic indicators.

GoTerra

GoTerra delivers a waste management infrastructure, where anyone, anywhere can utilise fee for service waste management that reduces emissions by 97% using modular robotics and insects to manage food waste at the site of creation.

Beefree Agro

Beefree Agro is controlling the location and movement of livestock in open pastures by developing software that turns off-the-shelf drones into autonomous flying cowboys. A drone-based autonomous herding system capable of counting livestock, monitoring infrastructure, and moving large herds over extensive pastures.

Beehero

BeeHero provides growers of commercial scale food crops with Precision Pollination, a breakthrough technology that provides crucial data to improve pollination and crop outcomes, lower bee mortality rates, and improve bee health.

Uuvipak

Uuvipak makes 100% home-compostable and edible packaging by upcycling clean organic food waste. With our products we reduce emissions from plastic pollution and organic materials that end up in landfill.

Brad Egan, Grain grower, Scaddan WA

Brad shares how he has converted his thinking from ‘gut feel’ into data driven decisions and why this information now underpins much of the farm’s productivity.

Jay Clarke, Director of Woodhaven Gardens, Levin NZ

Woodhaven Gardens exemplifies community focus whilst leading a large-scale sustainable and profitable family run horticulture business.

Barry Irvin, Dairy farmer and Executive Chairman Bega Cheese, Bega NSW

The Circular Economy: a latent opportunity in the Bega Valley.

Hans Nederend Jr, Dairy Farmer, USA

An inside look at the daily life of a dairy farmer in the United States, as he shares his personal story of the many ways technology helps farmers care for their cows and run their family farm.

Jordy & Julia Kay, Founders and CEOs Great Wrap, SA

Great Wrap is a compostable cling wrap made from food waste demonstrating how circular economy can reduce carbon footprint across the supply chain.

Middlehurst Delivered

Lucy Macdonald and Sophie Johnson own, manage and produce lamb at Middlehurst Delivered, an award winning online farm-to-table-delivery company selling premium lamb boxes based in the Awatere Valley on the south Island of NZ.
Hear their inspiring story of how they have evolved their business to help connect farmers and consumers.

Simone Kain & George the Farmer

Simone Kain, the founder and author of educational children’s brand, George the Farmer, joins us to share her story and how we can help her educate more children about where their food and fibre comes from.