Farm Online
Australian agriculture as a whole and ag-tech in particular will play a vital role in lifting the nation out of the current COVID-19 inspired economic downturn.
Fledgling Australian agtech business AgriDigital has made a big step with the company announcing its North America launch.
The Land
The developers of a blockchain-based start-up agribusiness believe the technology can play a big role in limiting grain growers' counterparty risk.
Australian Financial Review
For a long time the tech sector has been dominated by white men. Manels (male only panels) were commonplace at conferences, more male-led start-ups received venture capital funding and there were a lot more visible male success stories. But when it comes to blockchain, an emerging group of female entrepreneurs are leading the way, not just in Australia, but globally. While cryptocurrency may still have a skew towards males, if you think about a successful Australian blockchain start-up, the chances are it has a female co-founder.
The Farmer (NSW Farmers)
Blockchain has become something of a buzzword, but what exactly does it mean for Australian farmers?
AgriDigital
The Landing Pad program supports market ready, high potential startups to 'land and expand' in major global innovation hubs around the world.
AgriDigital and FluroSat have been selected alongside only four other organisations in the third cohort of Food System 6, a business accelerator program based in San Francisco.
Square Peg Capital has invested in Australian blockchain start-up, AgriDigital, in a $5.5 million Series A funding round it said would help expansion plans into North America.
A trial project between ag-tech start-up AgriDigital and WA agribusiness giant CBH using blockchain technology to execute contracts has been hailed a success, paving the way for further work into scaling up the concept.
The world's leading food and agribusiness bank, Rabobank, and Sydney based international agtech company, AgriDigital have teamed up to push the boundaries of blockchain technology in agricultural supply chains
GT Review
Two successful blockchain pilots have been completed in Australia’s grain industry, which show that the technology can eliminate counterparty risk and track the provenance of agri produce. The work was completed by CBH Group, Australia’s largest co-operative and a grain exporter, and AgriDigital, an Australian company which develops blockchain-based solutions for the grain industry and which has developed a cloud-based commodity management system.
ABC News
Blockchains and cryptocurrencies are no longer the exclusive domain of tech enthusiasts. Agricultural commodity traders, and even cattle and grain producers themselves, are getting on board to be closer to the consumer and reduce food fraud. A blockchain is a database containing transaction details, information and records called blocks.
The country is awash with blockchain conferences but the technology itself is still stuck in the "proof of concept" starting blocks. However, there is cause for hope as Australia has a leading position globally with various projects, including the ASX's CHESS replacement, AgriDigital's supply chain provenance solution and Webjet's travel industry blockchain.
Farming Ahead
The pilot will assess the benefits of blockchain technology in grains handling, just one area of agriculture in which AgriDigital Chief Executive Officer Emma Weston believes the technology holds exciting opportunities.
AG TECHNOLOGY business AgriDigital has teamed up with WA grain giant CBH to set up a pilot project for grain payment using blockchain technology.
Stock Journal
Queensland Country Life
Stock & Land
BioFuels Digest
In Australia, the CBH Group is partnering with AgriDigital to explore the potential for blockchain and distributed ledger technology in the agricultural industry; in this instance, grains handling.
World Grain
The CBH Group is partnering with Sydney based agtech start-up AgriDigital to explore the potential for blockchain technology in the agricultural industry with a world leading pilot.
CoinDesk
CBH Group, Australia's largest grain exporter, is to test blockchain technology in the tracking of oat shipments, reports say.
Perth-based CBH, the nation's largest grains exporter, and Sydney start-up AgriDigital will begin a pilot next week to test how blockchain, which can be used to create an immutable audit trail, traces the movement of oats through a supply chain.
Grain Central
Agridigital will officially launch its AgriDigital integrated grains industry platform at the upcoming Australian Grains Industry Conference (AGIC) in Melbourne on August 2 and 3.
AgriDigital launches game changing commodity management solution at Australian Grains Industry Conference.
West Australian Grain handler the CBH Group is investigating the potential of using blockchain technology to sell grain. The Co-operative will complete a trial sale of a few loads of organic oats out of its South Australian company Blue Lake Milling with the help of agtech startup AgriDigital.
The wave of ‘digital disruption’ sweeping across the agricultural sector is revolutionising the way farmers, buyers, processors and financiers transact business, according to Agridigital co-founder and executive chairman, Bob McKay.
The Weekly Times
ANY delays between delivering grain and being paid for it could become a thing of the past, but Australia will need to develop a digital currency to make this happen. That’s according to AgriDigital co-founder Bob Mckay.
Business Insider Australia
The founder of a startup delivering blockchain technologies to farmers was one of the big winners at FinTech Australia’s inaugural industry awards ceremony held in Sydney on Wednesday night.
CryptoCoins News
Even though deregulation of Australia’s wheat market has provided growers with many benefits, it has also left them facing insolvencies or problems with payments. Enter Australian-based AgriDigital, an integrated commodity management solution for the global grains industry that utilizes the Ethereum blockchain to ensure transparency and efficiency.
Australia Unlimited
Emma Weston is passionate about ensuring wheat farmers get paid fast and fairly. Her company, AgriDigital, is revolutionising the agriculture industry after conducting the world’s first live settlement of a physical commodity via blockchain.
AgriDigital, blockchain innovator and developer of the first fully integrated, cloud-based commodity management platform for the grains industry is pleased to announce that it has closed its Series A funding.
With Australia on the cusp of an "agtech" revolution, almost 5 per cent of national grain production, around 1.5 million metric tonnes, has been processed in recent months using new software known as AgriDigital. The cloud-based transaction platform allows grain growers, buyers and bulk handlers to manage contracts, deliveries, invoices, payments and inventory all in one place.
BLOCKCHAINS, also known as distributed ledger technology, are an emerging tool that can be used to record transactions digitally.
AgriDigital has successfully executed the world's first settlement of an agricultural commodity on a blockchain, enabling real-time payment on title transfer for Aussie grain growers
A NEW company is seeking a technological answer to one of the biggest problems facing grain farmers — delays in being paid.
