Learning Together: Webinar 1

Introduction:
Collaborative Business Models and Structures

Main Topic:
Dare to Share Your data: Developing a Farmer-Driven Data Co-operative

Hosted by the Farming Together Program

The inaugural FREE Learning Together Live Webinar will start with a brief introduction about collaborative business models and structures by Farming Together Strategic Director Lorraine Gordon and Program Manager Amanda Scott. Farming Together helps farmers, fishers and foresters establish business models and co-ops that address economic and environmental challenges. The program has helped over 28,500 farmers to find collaborative solutions.

Main topic:
Dare to Share Your data

Developing a Farmer-Driven data Co-operative

Data sharing arrangements allow farmers to gain access to a wider set of data to help with management decisions.

Hear from Phillip Guthrie and Chris Sounness about data sharing initiatives while at Birchip Cropping Group (BCG).

Speaker stories are followed by a Live Interactive Q&A

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

PHILLIP GUTHRIE

Phillip Guthrie leads BCG’s innovation portfolio, developing and managing projects that help BCG members and Australian broadacre farmers increase their productivity, profitability and sustainability. Current projects include the development of a farmer-owned agricultural data marketplace, implementing on-farm telecommunications networks and helping farmers to make greater use of precision agriculture.

CHRIS SOUNNESS

Chris Sounness, Executive Director at Wimmera Development Association, is the former CEO of Birchip Cropping Group. During his time with BCG, Chris facilitated 40 farmers to connect their weather station data so that it was uploaded to a single, shared source.

Chris challenged farmers to see the value in collecting and curating their data and suggested that co-op members should be custodians of the data and its use may be best governed by contract law.

ABOUT THE WEBINAR SERIES

Learning Together

Collaborative Business Solutions for Farmers

A new webinar series for farmers

Farming Together is excited to offer you the opportunity to learn more about Collaborative Business Solutions in Farming, Fishing and Forestry via its new webinar series.

Find out how collaborative business solutions can help address some of today’s biggest challenges. Working collaboratively, farmers can experience greater control of the supply chain, create economies of scale, build resilience to climate impacts, and access new markets.

Drawing from a wealth of experiences from farmers, fishers and foresters across the country, Farming Together invites you to find out how collaboration has turned challenges into opportunities. Topics include Food Hubs, Data Sharing, Neighbour Farming, and Succession Planning.

Listen, interact and have your questions answered by our guest speakers and expert panel each week. Our series of webinars will look at the variety of different collaborative business solutions, the various forms and structures they can take, provide tips for success when starting or growing a collaborative business, and the pitfalls to avoid.

Who is this webinar series for: Anyone interested in starting or growing a collaborative business.