Platfarm

06/05/2022

The Platfarm team has spent the week on the Mornington Peninsula. We've been testing 5G GPS capabilities. It's accuracy will make autosteer in viticulture practical. In the mean time training up more of these dogs should do the trick.

02/05/2022

From tomorrow Platfarm will be spending a few days on the Mornington Peninsula as part of a 5G/GPS trial with Frontier SI and Position Partners.

Position Partners will be using drone flyovers for Near Real-Time Image Processing. There has been a lot of hype about drones in farming. But it's definitely a technology and an application worth pursuing. You can read a bit more about Platfarm's investment in drone technology on our website

https://www.platfarm.com/platfarm-invests-in-drone-technology/

30/10/2021

Josh is doing a fab job digitally mapping all the rows stunning Tamar Ridge Vineyard in northern Tassie - 2,000 odd rows and counting so far...

08/03/2021

On International Women's Day, Platfarm's co-founder and CTO, Lyndsey Jackson has the honour of being recognised with other THRIVE Female founders from across the globe

We're celebrating this by spotlighting THRIVE’s who are revolutionizing ! We're also thrilled that many of them are also featured in a new book by award-winning journalist and filmmaker, Amy Wu. http://bit.ly/thrive-femalfounders

02/11/2020

The wine industry can learn a lot about mapping and data management from the mining industry.
Our 3rd workshop looked at some of the similarities between drill cores and vine rows (from 10mins in)

The mining sector has a lot to teach the wine industry about mapping and data management. 3rd Workshop focused on questions such as: - Do dr...

22/09/2020

When we secured a coveted spot in the THRIVE AgTech Incubator in February, none of us could possibly have predicted how this year was going to change.

But even in the face of these challenges, THRIVE’s award winning program has absolutely lived up to its reputation.
And after 4 months we’re ready to pitch to an international audience of top investors, agriculturalists, and entrepreneurs at the THRIVE Demo Day — open this year to a global audience as a virtual watch party, presented by THRIVE in partnership with Forbes.

We hope you’ll be watching on Friday morning from 7am AEST

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/thrive-demo-day-20-registration-112498407766

This year the annual THRIVE Demo Day, presented in partnership with Forbes, will be open to a global audience for the first time as a virtual watch party. Platfarm is one of just 13 companies to have made it through a fiercely competitive selection process to participate in THRIVE Demo Day ’20, jo...

28/07/2020

Langhorne Creek Wine Region have launched their Resourcing Growers for the Future project. Follow their social media accounts as they share stories & examples of how imagery is transforming viticulture. Read more on their website https://www.langhornecreek.com/uncategorised/making-practical-use-of-aerial-imagery

27/06/2020

Great Sunday read on the future of humanity + the poss futures we can create. Imagine a future of agriculture where costs fall by 10x / production processes an order of magnitude more efficient / using 90% fewer natural resources with 10x-100x less waste!

10/06/2020

Using Platfarm to spread variable rate compost on our testing vineyard in McLaren Vale today. Optimising our $4k budget by targeting the weaker areas with 32m3/Ha and the better areas just getting a maintenance rate of 8m3/Ha

05/06/2020

Our start up is ready to hire!!

We are looking for a Junior Developer who wants to build apps.

We will provide training and support - we want someone who is looking for their first career shot at getting into tech.

We want someone that has some javascript experience - being self taught will not be held against you. A portfolio of things you have been building and tinkering with is the sort of thing we want to see.

The position will be located at Stone & Chalk in the Adelaide CBD.

Please share this with your networks and chat to young people about it - you may not realise who is an aspiring dev!

Apply by 19 June 2020

Applications from women are encouraged, especially applications from women from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and Indigenous backgrounds. All women who apply will receive feedback on their application. All Indigenous women who apply will be guaranteed an interview or a zoom coffee chat to discuss their career aspirations.

For full description & application form see:

https://www.platfarm.com/jr-dev-wanted

05/02/2020

Drought, water shortages, well meaning but misguided technologists, unwelcome government intervention, and bushfires. Sounds like an article about in Australia right? Not this time.

Late last year Platfarm's CEO Oli Madgett hired a pink Cadillac and hit the road to visit San Francisco and Napa, California.

His reflections have just been published in Febs edition of The Australian and New Zealand Grapegrower & Winemaker magazine.

https://winetitles.com.au/wildfires-water-insecurity-and-gophers/