The Agtech Revolution Episode 11

Monitoring soil moisture and local weather conditions is common practice for many farmers as both factors are instrumental in growing crops or raising livestock. Few crops however are as susceptible to small changes as grapes. And with table grapes the looks matter just as much as the quality, leaving very little room for error for growers to produce a marketable product.

Retrofit kits now available from INCYT. Soil moisture probes are a classic example: the majority of this market is serviced by three manufacturers: AquaCheck, Sentek and EnviroPro. Whether a farmer decides to partner with an ag retailer, agtech provider or one of the manufacturers of soil moisture probes directly, chances are they’ll end up with a soil moisture probe of one of these three brands in their field. And why would you want to pay to buy the same product again, just because you’ve got a new preferred organisation with a better platform to visualise your data from the exact same sensor on? 

In 2021, CRDC led a challenge to innovators across Australia to help solve one of cotton’s most persisting problems by posing the question ‘Is it possible to revolutionise agricultural spray application?’