Cirquitive is a cloud based digital
traceability platform that makes
agrochemical compliance easy
for farmers.
If we can find something when it's
only affecting one plant, then the
cost of fixing the problem is
already very, very small.
For Agtech Innovators whose ideas
have significant potential to
benefit Australian grain growers,
this is one room you want
to be in!
It's the showcase day for GroundUp,
an accelerator program run by
the Agtech and Logistics Hub in
Toowoomba with investment from
GRDC.
We need innovation, we've had
incremental innovation, we need
step change innovation and it's
through partnering with something
like the GroundUp program that we'll
achieve that.
We were very excited to partner with
GRDC on this program and there was
probably over 50 people that applied
for the program and we whittled that
down to eight that were selected
that would have viability
within the grain sector.
But then I also had the ability
to grow and scale.
The technology we have on display
here today can hopefully service
hundreds of thousands of farmers
within the grain sector.
The Hindsite platform is a software
as a service platform.
We are a digital service post
delivery platform which specialises
in providing the right information
to the right people at the right
time. A prime example would be in
the Ag space if you are a farmer and
you need to perhaps service one of
your tractors, it would provide you
with a step by step digital process
on how to do that based upon the
parameters that have been set out by
the specific owner of that material.
The structure of the accelerator
program on day one is really
understanding what the innovators
business model is, what the product
is, and understanding how
they're planning on taking it to
market. From there, we can
work with them, mentor them,
introduce them to producer and
growers, bring entrepreneurs and
residents who've been through the
trials and tribulations of trying to
launch a product into market and how
to fail and how to come back again.
And we end with a big showcase day
like this where we try and bring
near 200 people together to
understand the tech look, touch and
feel and hopefully get some
adoption.
Thanks so much. Thank you.
What's interesting is today we
have machinery that can literally
drive itself when it comes to
agrochemical compliance, we're just
still using the old archaic
systems like paper mixed with
some ineffective digital
systems, and it's just not good
enough. Cirquitive is a cloud based
digital traceability platform that
makes agrochemical compliance
easy for farmers.
It'll just free up their time and
there'll be less stressed.
They can spend more time with their
family and they don't have
to prepare for a month
in advance of an audit because it's
been automatically done for them.
At the essence. We're a support
company, a UAV support company, so
we use UAV's to support the
agricultural industry as well as
some other ones, to find information
and find important information for
farmers. Essentially, we take a lot
of photos, processed them into a
single image, and then deliver data
from that. So that could be finding
a bug or an insect or a diseased
crop. If we can find something when
it's only affecting one plant, then
the cost is to fixing that problem
is already very, very small.
And when we're talking about farms,
it could be 20, 30,000 acres.
Well, those costs could balloon out
to 20, 30, 40, $50,000.
We could fix it for 20
bucks.
A lot of difference in price tag.
GRDC's investment in GroundUp
is part of its Accelerator program
that sits alongside Growers
as Innovators and the Grain
Innovate, venture capital fund.
We chose to invest in these
platforms in 2019 to
achieve the kind of innovation that
we're looking for in the grains
industry and across agriculture in
general.
Growers are making incremental
innovation changes and
incremental production changes, but
to make that step change, we
need to partner with people that we
don't normally traditionally partner
with, and that's what we're hoping
to find through the innovation
program.
Throughout that last 12 week
process, we've not only defined
how we position ourselves,
particularly in the ag space, but
also identified other key areas
where we can bring value to the ag
piece. I would have to say that the
what we've taken from this whole
program has been invaluable.
We've already had fantastic industry
connections and that's effectively
what we wanted to get out of a
program.
What we got out of it is, we'll find
out in the next couple of days to be
honest, whether or not we get the
customer invite and the customer
pool or get an industry body to
come with it, so yeah, we want to
deliver this into the agriculture
sector, we're here to help you out
on how to do it.
They've given me some great
connections to some very
skilled people who've guided me in
the right areas, and I just wouldn't
have had the confidence to do that
on my own. It's just been wonderful,
the level of support that I've been
given and by not just
the participants, but the people in
the hub. So lets make agriculture
sustainable, together, thank you.