Invest in new technology, not bigger farms, to reap ag profits

Andrew Marshall
June 20 2017 - 12:00pm
TECH SAVVY: ANZ's Victorian regional business banking head, Phil Crouch and Western Australian rural sector consultant, Maree Gooch, with Edward Ray and Ted Tanaka from robotic logistics company Daifuku, in Tokyo.
TECH SAVVY: ANZ's Victorian regional business banking head, Phil Crouch and Western Australian rural sector consultant, Maree Gooch, with Edward Ray and Ted Tanaka from robotic logistics company Daifuku, in Tokyo.

THE “get big or get out” drive for greater economies of scale in Australian agriculture is not really working for farmers any more.

Andrew Marshall

Andrew Marshall

National agribusiness writer

Andrew Marshall is the group agribusiness writer for ACM's state agricultural weeklies and websites. He is a former editor at The Land and has worked in various Rural Press group roles in Canberra, North Richmond (NSW) and Toowoomba (Qld).

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