We research the trends, technologies and shifts reshaping our agriculture industry — and we help the right people and organisations to act on what we find.
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 — from digital agriculture and AI to automation, resources, supply chains and shifting global paradigms — and we work with industry to make sense of what's coming.
We are not a consultancy in the traditional sense, and we are not a vendor. We operate as a studio: curious, evidence-led, and willing to test ideas before they harden into infrastructure. We work at the stage before decisions get locked in — whether those decisions are technological, operational, strategic, or structural.
Fodder operates across four connected modes — independent research at one end, hands-on design and delivery at the other, with advisory and convening between them.
Independent investigations into the trends, technologies and shifts reshaping Australian agriculture and food. Industry analyses, scenario work, and briefing papers across digital ag, automation, supply chains, resources, and global markets.
Applied research for organisations making consequential decisions — operators, agribusinesses, peak bodies, investors, and government. We bring foresight to specific problems, with the independence of a studio rather than the bias of a vendor.
Where research meets the world. We design and test new systems, models and operational concepts — taking ideas far enough to prove or disprove them before anyone commits to building.
Bringing the industry into conversation. Events, roundtables and programs that connect producers, researchers, technology builders, investors and policymakers around the questions that matter most.
Fodder works with the operators, institutions and builders making consequential decisions about the sector's future.
Independent research, field notes, and provocations from across our work.
Australia's Digital Product Passport ecosystem for livestock is technically well-defined — but not yet operational at scale. What's holding it up, and what changes when it lands.
What we found when we helped a mixed-farming enterprise see their systems clearly for the first time — and what it suggests about the rest of the sector.
The gap between what gets built and what gets used isn't a design problem. It's a research problem.
Whether you're commissioning research, exploring an advisory engagement, or interested in our programs and events — start here. We'll respond within a couple of business days.