Modes of work: research, advisory, design and convening. Each one feeds the next.
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What we do
Experts in foresight.
Fodder Studio is an independent research and design studio working at the edges of Australian agriculture and food. We investigate the trends, risks and emerging models reshaping the sector — digital agriculture, automation, supply chains, resources and shifting global markets — and we work with the people who have to decide what to do about them.
We are not a vendor, and we are not a traditional consultancy. We operate as a studio: curious, evidence-led, and willing to test an idea before it hardens into infrastructure. The useful work happens before decisions get locked in.
Research & Foresight
Independent investigations into the trends, technologies and shifts reshaping Australian agriculture and food. Industry analyses, scenarios and briefing papers across digital agriculture, automation, supply chains, resources and global markets.
Learn more →Advisory
Applied research for organisations making consequential decisions — operators, agribusinesses, peak bodies, investors and government. Foresight brought to a specific problem, with the independence of a studio rather than the interest of a vendor.
Learn more →Design & Prototyping
Where research meets the paddock. We design and test systems, models and operational concepts — taking an idea far enough to prove or disprove it before anyone commits to building.
Learn more →Convening
The industry in one conversation. Roundtables, programs and rooms that put producers, researchers, technology builders, investors and policymakers onto the same question.
Learn more →Working across Australian agriculture and food.
ProducersAgribusinessProcessorsPeak bodiesGovernmentInvestorsResearchersTechnology buildersExporters
Fodder in numbers
Australian agriculture has world-class production, research and operators. What it has less of is independent capacity to sit between them — to investigate where the sector is heading, design what comes next, and convene the conversations that have to happen across the industry. Fodder was started to do that work in the open.
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The year the studio was founded in Tamworth, NSW. We work from here, and across Australia.
About us →Themes on the research agenda, from digital agriculture and automation to capital and global markets.
Based in Tamworth. The questions are national, and so is the work.
Vendor allegiances. Independence is the product — the moment it slips, the work is worth less to everyone.