Evidence over enthusiasm
The sector is full of confident claims about the future. We try to make fewer of them, and to back the ones we do make with research, fieldwork and honest uncertainty.
Our aim is to be the studio Australian agriculture can trust with an unfinished question.
Tamworth, NSW · Working nationally
Our approach
What independent means.
It means the research is published on its own terms. It means advisory work is structured so that independence survives the engagement. It means we say no when a brief would compromise it — because the moment we don't, the work is worth less to everyone who relies on it.
It also means relationships measured in the questions we stay with, not in a single deliverable. The most useful work starts from a real understanding of the constraint in front of an operator, a board, or a department.
Australian context
Most of what is happening to agriculture is happening everywhere — rarely in the same order, or under the same constraints. We translate. We don't transplant.
Foresight with execution
Research that never meets a decision is decoration. Execution that isn't grounded in research is risk. The useful work is the join between the two.
Shared questions
Digital change, automation, supply chains, resources and capital hit producers, processors, policymakers and builders at once. We design the work so they can be in the same conversation.
Four modes, one studio
Research informs advisory. Advisory surfaces problems worth designing. Design produces evidence for the next round of research. Convening carries it back to the people living the question.
Test before you build
We take ideas far enough to prove or disprove them. A disproved concept is a good outcome. It is cheaper than infrastructure.
Independent by design
When a project moves from research into technology delivery, we work with partners chosen to fit the job — including Agri-IT. Those relationships are disclosed, and they do not own the research.
In the open
Most analysis available to the industry is sold by someone, imported from somewhere else, or locked inside an institution. We publish so the conversation can use it.
People
The studio.
Fodder Studio was founded in 2025 by Matt Anderson, with a background spanning agriculture, technology, policy and law. The studio works with a network of contributors, fellows and collaborators across Australian agriculture and food.
We're based in Tamworth, NSW, and we work across Australia. The next decade of the sector will be shaped by decisions made over the next few years. We want those decisions made with better information, sharper foresight, and a clearer view of what is actually possible.