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Hatch Round 3 Applications Now Open

Hatch Round 3 Applications Now Open Funded by the Australian Governments Future Drought Fund, the Hatch pre-accelerator is part of a range of programs delivered by Farmers2Founders in partnership with the TNQ Agricultural Innovation Hub to help drive agricultural business growth in the region. The Hatch program is about changing

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Newsletter #9: November 2022

Welcome to November’s newsletter. As our Programs continue to kick goals across the region through their activities (you can see what they have been up to below), the rest of the team have been busy meeting with our partners and other key industry groups. Our purpose of this continuous engagement

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Beta Testing On Farms – Water Monitoring

As a first for Tropical North Queensland, this water monitoring device could have significant benefits by helping producers better understand the health and quality of crops. The Agricultural Innovation Program has kicked off its first on farm trial this week working in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries

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Hatch Round 2 Underway

Hatch Round 2 Underway A big welcome and congratulations to the final candidates that made it into the newest round of the Agricultural Innovation Hatch Program! We are lucky to have a range of producers, researchers, entrepreneurs, and students as part of our cohort with some pretty cool concepts. Robyn Adams

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Coral AI model wins second Northern Australian Indigenous Datathon

Coral AI model wins second Northern Australian Indigenous Datathon The second instalment of the Northern Australian Indigenous Datathon was held at James Cook University in Cairns from October 21-23. This years Datathon had over 60 participants working on problems Traditional Owners and Rangers groups are experiencing on managing their country. The

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Newsletter #8: October 2022

Welcome to our latest TNQ Hub Newsletter. The team has been busy again this month collaborating with our network partners and members to ensure we are all strategically working towards the common goal of building resilience to future drought. A recent meeting with Hub Member University of Queensland and James

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Helping Farmers Hatch Innovative Ideas

Helping Farmers Hatch Innovative Ideas Applications are now open for the Tropical North Queensland Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hub (TNQ Drought Hub) Hatch Pre-accelerator Program. Farmers, innovators, researchers, students and entrepreneurs from across the northern patch are encouraged to apply for the program aimed to help solve problems within

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Commercialisation Through Collaboration

Capitalising on the vast range of domain expertise, skills, and experience inherent within JCU and across the TNQ Drought Hub’s partner network, the Agricultural Innovation Program team are discovering how new agribusiness and agtech innovation and ideas can reach new heights.  A framework to support a fast-tracked commercialisation process is

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