In June 2018 Agtech Ideation, led by Andrea Koch was awarded a $1.1million grant from the Australian Government’s Smart Farming Partnerships grant program, to form a partnership with AGRIVision Consultants, an Agtech startup and the University of Sydney. The grant is funding the four-year Soil Tech Project to translate existing soil science into a suite of innovative digital soil management tools for land managers, using user centred agile development.
The Soil Tech Project brings the disciplines of science and agronomy together with the world of agtech. Agtech developers will collaborate with senior soil scientists from the University of Sydney and agronomists from AGRIVision Consultants to build new digital tools that can be used by land managers to better understand and manage their soil.
The project is led by Andrea Koch Principal of Agtech Ideation, who will also use action research to document the whole process so that others can learn how the collaboration works and replicate it. The aim is to build new pathways for stranded science to be translated into action through agtech development.
THE SOIL TECH PROJECT
WHAT WE DO
The Soil Tech Project team are collaborating to bring existing world class soil science to life in a suite of six digital soil management tools.
PRODUCTS
Our state-of-the-art Digital Soil Mapping and Soil Sampling Design tools provide useful insights to agronomists and farmers.
BE INVOLVED
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