In most of Victoria the Winter and Spring rains have failed to deliver anywhere near enough rain and so far there doesn’t seem to be much for summer either. Traditional farming can’t produce food without water. Just when markets, both domestic and international, are crying out for Australian produce farmers can’t deliver. That is why more […]
By integrating aquaculture with other methods of farming we can grow food more cheaply, of higher quality, without the environmental impact of stand-alone operations.
All my working life I’ve looked for methods and techniques that can be used to benefit the environment but also make people money. Very early on in my career I realised that […]
For budding entrepreneurs the center piece of the latest announcement seems to be a 20% tax offset for people that invest in innovative startups. What is so odd about this announcement is that it is such a paltry incentive.
The prime minister attempted to sell this incentive by using the example of an investor who invested […]
For quite some time there has been growing hope that there may be some significant changes in Australian government policy towards innovation, research and development and crafting a suite of policies that could encourage more entrepreneurial activity in Australia.
Unfortunately the recent announcements by the Turnball government are rather disappointing.
In Australia we just don’t have the […]
I was at an Agri business breakfast on the 4th of December and speaking was agribusiness ANZ analyst Taft Shaamano. He was talking about the growing markets to our north and said that even during an economic down turn people would still need to eat. So while China might stop buying steel they wouldn’t stop […]