Gatton AgTech Showcase 2025

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There's a lot of positivity, in the paddock here at Gatton.

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The partnerships and collaboration that you see here is going to be taken back to thousands of paddocks around Australia,

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to reduce that reliance on labour but also bring down costs to make production cheaper.

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The Gatton AgTech Showcase 2025 is the benchmark for AgTech events going forward. A DPI initiative, that we delivered in 2023.

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We got such a great response. We really wanted to do it again.

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Grower input was first and foremost a consideration in the design and implementation.

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We've worked with industry, we worked with growers, with tech providers to understand what it is that they need. We've got exhibitors from Australia, homegrown AgTech,

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external innovation from around the world, to see, look, and feel the technology to understand how it performs in

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the real world, and that's very important to get investors on board, but also government support.

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We've been really excited to have 19 live field demonstrations, 24 protected cropping exhibitors, and 43 general AgTech exhibitors.

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It's extremely valuable to have all this, technology in one place. You can get a bit of tunnel vision stuck on your own farm, day in, day out. It's quite refreshing to have a look at some new ideas.

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For us it's also saving time because if we would like to meet all those growers we met, it will have taken us one year of travels.

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I think it's a breath of fresh air to see the future take shape.

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To have it showcased in a way that gives you confidence in its ability to perform is really important.

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I think it's exciting to see the technology, but it's more exciting to see groups of growers, engaging with one another and also the

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technology manufacturer having discussions that if we didn't have this event would probably be happening online or may not be happening at all.

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Just providing that forum for people to come together, to network, to engage.

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You move innovation forward so much faster in two days here than you would months, years over email.

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It's a unique role the department can play because, we can bring a lot of players together that wouldn't normally collaborate. Having that international connection, priceless.

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We have to embrace innovation and technology because we have so many pressures. Just looking at any ways we can reduce the amount of chemical we use.

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The EcoRobotics machines, it was cool to see that for the first time.

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It was impressive just how well it can differentiate between the weeds and the plants. This technology not only saves money on input costs, but it also affects labour.

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But most importantly, yield and quality. There's been real excitement about the event.

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Just under 1500 attendees through the gates. Absolutely ecstatic with that.

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They really want to adopt technology to improve their profitability and sustainability. It is a solution to a problem born out of necessity.

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AgTech will help keep farmers farming into the future.