Industry analysis
Structured pieces on a trend or technology, typically long enough to change a decision, published on the site.
The questions the studio is working on.
Independent · Evidence-led · Published on its own terms
Fodder's research investigates the trends, technologies and shifts reshaping Australian agriculture and food — especially the questions that sit between disciplines, and between now and the next decade.
Agenda
Six connected themes.
Digital agriculture & AI
How digital systems and AI reshape operations, decisions and value chains once the tools are genuinely capable.
Automation & robotics
The physical layer. What is working, what is not, and what the next decade looks like for Australian operators.
Supply chains & provenance
Traceability, geopolitics and buyer expectations, and what producers and processors need to be ready for.
Resources & climate
Water, energy, soil and inputs under pressure — what changes, what holds, and which operating models follow.
Capital & investment
Where capital is moving, what it is looking for, and which models across production, processing and technology are next.
Global paradigms
Trade, geopolitics, food security and consumer change, read through an Australian lens.
Library
All research
Industry analysis
The digital passport for every animal is closer than you think.
What is holding a livestock digital product passport back, and what changes when it lands.
Field note
Mapping a cropping operation's digital ecosystem.
What a mixed-farming enterprise looked like once every system was on one map.
Provocation
Why most farm software fails before it launches.
The gap between what gets built and what gets used is a research problem.
Briefing
Provenance and the next five years of Australian export.
Which claims will matter, and what has to be true before anyone buys a system to make them.
On the agenda
Water, energy and labour as one pressure system.
The resource constraints that will decide which operating models survive the next decade.
On the agenda
What capital is actually underwriting.
A clearer picture of investable models across production, processing and technology.
How we publish
A format for each kind of question.
Briefings
A defined question for people who have to share it inside an organisation. A summary here, a document they can pass on.
Field notes
Shorter observations from live work — what is surprising, and what is worth flagging before it is a finding.
Provocations
Arguments, alongside the evidence. Less neutral than the analysis, and deliberately so.
Case notes
Work from advisory and design engagements, published with the consent of the organisations involved.
Commissioned
A question you bring. We investigate it independently and agree, up front, what can be published.