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The 2021 AusFAC event is being run by the Northern Rivers RDA

Click here for the AusFAC 2021 website
www.ausfac.org.au

Contact Tim Williamson: 0407 724 110

And the winner is ...
Bioscout Winner
BioScout

Official 2019 FAC Overview video. Video by Shawn Drieberg

https://youtu.be/atRKVLKCiXQ

AusFAC2019 summary from Startup Tablelands Co-chair and AusFAC Organiser Calum Kippin

https://youtu.be/uMqmXEGPLYc

FAC 2019 Photos by John Ortiz

bioscout - winner
Ben van Delden
Ben van Delden
Best shot of the Judges
Bioscout Winners
Christine Clifford Christine Doan Melissa Mallett
Christine Clifford Love Lee Catering Team Christine Clifford
Christine Doan Bree Hargreaves
Christine Doan Lewis Collins
Christine Doan Love Lee Cooking Team Christine Clifford
Christine Clifford Christine Doan Melissa Mallett
Doug Ward Gail Barton Jess Fealy Christine Doan
See more photos here ...
Photos by John Ortiz

Competitors

bioscout-team

BioScout

BioScout is an airborne real-time disease tracking platform, which lets farmers know as soon as plant diseases are present so they can be addressed before significant loss of crops. Growers lose at least 20% of their crop yield to plant diseases, with current disease monitoring techniques being labour and time intensive and inefficient for farmers.

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MPTAgTech team

MPT AgTech

This ‘Smart Seeder’ technology measures the properties of the soil in real time while seeding, and using on-board Edge-Artificial Intelligence, is able to optimise itself for best seed placement. This helps overcome the challenges of soil quality variations across a property, which sees a third of seeds placed too deep and a third placed too shallow on the average farm.

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SmartShepherd team

SmartShepherd

Free range livestock typically have a low percentage of maternal pedigree. Farmers wishing to determine profitability at a per-animal level and build breeding programs to improve maternal genetics must collect this information. SmartShepherd determines maternal pedigree in free range livestock in just 48 hours using low cost Bluetooth hardware and an algorithm.

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SWANSystems team

SWAN Systems

SWAN is a precision agriculture system that guides irrigation and nutrient scheduling to improve economic and environmental returns. It is a predictive software solution that delivers precise information for enhanced decision making to reduce water use and optimise crop performance. SWAN collects data via telemetry to process by algorithms for irrigation/nutrient scheduling and monitoring capability. It is automated and configurable to ensure a tailored outcome.

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UAGBioNutrients team

UAG Bio Nutrients

UAG Bio Nutrients has a vision is to feed the world from waste to plate, healthily, sustainably and profitably. The world’s soils are depleting. UAG Bio Nutrients delivers nutrient dense organic fertilisers for regenerative farming – made from organic waste to increase the productivity of soil and decrease the world’s food waste challenges.

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Ubot team

Ubot

Ubot provides autonomous Citrus Harvestor pickers that work on deep learning algorithms, costs less than a human and work 24/7. Farmers struggle to get enough labour to pick fruit, leaving fruit is rotting on trees. These robots cost a farmer is $10 to pick a 400kg bin of oranges instead of $30 a 400kg bin for a human picker.

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Judges

Shaun Thambyah – Judge

Meet our next Judge for AusFAC!

Shaun knows the startup and innovation experience and what it takes to succeed. He’s the Co-Founder of a marketing startup he’s had success not just in attracting seed funding, but securing major Australian corporate clients.

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Troy Bishop – Judge

Troy Bishop is the independent Regional Innovation Coordinator in a part-time capacity. Troy has established himself as one of FNQ leaders in startups and business growth. He has successfully started a business that created opportunities for businesses with high-level business advice in all areas to ensure you have the right resources and services to be […]

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Krista Watkins – Judge

Krista is a leader in agricultural innovation and is the Co-founder and Managing Director of Natural Evolution, a company specialising in green banana and other waste produce products. Krista’s interest in reducing waste and finding uses for unsaleable produce led to the development of Natural Evolution in 2015. Following tireless work and research, she and […]

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Andrew Bate – Judge

As founder and CEO of SwarmFarm Robotics, Andrew Bate is the chief visionary, leveraging his experience as a successful grain and cattle farmer and his deep knowledge of robotics to drive the successful development of the SwarmBot. Andrew has spent a lifetime in agriculture; he has trained as an agronomist at the University of Queensland […]

Dr Steve Davis – Judge

Steve has a background in both technology and business and specialises in the development and commercialisation of new products of a technical nature. He has a domain background in the physical sciences with a PhD in physical chemistry. He has worked with a variety of technology-based enterprises, many with a focus on sensing technologies, and […]

Jess Fealy About the FAC Event

https://youtu.be/gh7iu_emOis

Jess Fealy about the Global FAC Competition

https://youtu.be/vkNSWhuMtCs

Jess Fealy about Fac Global and SwarmFarm Robotics

https://youtu.be/3PJwnnC8jio

Jess Fealy About Leanne Kemp

https://youtu.be/xkCOuqb-wT4

Jess Fealy about Judges

https://youtu.be/hEfr1vYN9v8

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