Farms and Farm Machinery

investing in innovation

We can afford to put a few billion of risk capital on the table to kickstart our innovation sector.

If you remember the ABC TV show The Inventors, which ran from 1970 to 1982, it may surprise you to know that at one stage it was Australia’s highest rating TV show of the era and a disproportionate number of the winning ideas were farm inventions.

Unfortunately, many of the great innovations showcased ran into the brick wall of a lack of risk capital to take their ideas from the farm workshop to

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