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AgVention, a field day like no other, is coming to the Mary Valley for the first time on Friday 25 October.
Showcasing innovation, invention and ideas – AgVention is the brain-child of Tim and Amber Scott from Bos Rural and will be powered by the Food and Agribusiness Network.
The event is already attracting national interest with speakers and exhibitors coming from Silicon Valley, New Zealand and Tasmania including: Provenir Australia’s first Australia’s first mobile on-farm abattoir, Vence virtual fencing, Moovement livestock location trackers, Halo Robotics drone spraying, remote monitoring, electric farm transportation, irrigation controllers, inbuilt inverter solar pumps, non-chemical parasite control products and a brand new brand-new USDA certified organic herbicide not seen on the Australian market (to name just a few).
AgVention was conceived almost a decade ago after Tim Scott, at the time running the Australasian division for a multinational rural tech business, was seeing less innovation on the Australian agricultural field day circuit. At the same time, the international field days he was attending were noticeably more interesting.
“As an exhibiting company at these days, the costs were high and the incentive to do something ‘special’ for an event was depleted – it was becoming a bit of a treadmill,” said Mr Scott.
Realising this he envisaged that AgVention had to be different.
“We have all spent days on end at field days looking for those little gems that have the potential to change the way we do business, AgVention circumvents that by only having exhibitors come with one product that has the potential to change agriculture.
“As farmers and businesses, we’re all time-poor, we have to see and hear things when we go to events that are game changers or it isn’t worth our time to go.
“We want to hear from speakers that are inspiring, be introduced to food that’s local and source information that’s new.”
Bos Rural has a regenerative agriculture focus and the shop has led the rural supply industry in being one of the first to eliminate synthetic fertilisers, herbicides, fungicides and most other chemicals from their range.
AgVention reflects this passion to remove chemical from our food chain by attracting some never seen before, non-chemical and certified organic products. The event will exhibit a brand-new USDA certified organic herbicide that has the potential to replace current defoliant chemicals which has not been seen in the Australian market.
Quality food production at the grass roots level is a key focus of AgVention, according to event co-founder Amber Scott.
“Ag tech has a bit of a bad reputation for innovation at the expense of food integrity,” she said.
“AgVention seeks to bring together stakeholders across the breadth of agriculture, but ultimately to keep actual producers at the heart of the innovation process to ensure the end result is about producing better food.”
The event will be powered by the Food and Agribusiness Network, which Bos Rural and Kandanga Farm Store are members of.
FAN is Australia’s fastest growing food and agribusiness cluster and works with 300 members across the whole food value chain from Gympie, Noosa, Sunshine Coast and Moreton Bay.
FAN General Manager Emma Greenhatch said the group was excited to partner with Tim and Amber on the delivery of this unique event.
“This event brings to life our network’s purpose of being a conduit for communication, promoting knowledge acquisition and sharing amongst our members and the broader industry,” said Ms Greenhatch.
“We invite farmers, food producers, locals, businesses, companies and anyone who is interested in food production, agri-innovation and the future of farming to attend this valuable and informative event.”
The event at the Kandanga Farm Store will feature four exhibition areas, a “Meet the Makers Market”, speakers tent and local entertainment.
The day will be capped off with beers and banter in the “Sundowner Lounge” and a Field to Fork Feast featuring Gympie Gold Regional Produce.
The event is proudly supported by Gympie Regional Council.
More details, speakers and exhibitors to come.
For more information and to book tickets www.foodagribusiness.org.au/events
MEDIA CONTACT
Nicole McNaughton Marketing and Events Manager FAN
0433 603 575 or nicole@foodagribusiness.org.au
