Part 2 - Insights from the Dowerin Field Days There is something quite refreshing about getting back into the Wheatbelt. We recently spent the day at Dowerin talking to farmers, machinery suppliers, agtech businesses and plenty of other people who keep Australian agriculture moving. And, frankly, it was great. The territory where every passing by car gets the raised index finger from the driver to say G’day. The conversations were genuine. No polished conference presentations

I've spent a fair bit of time around cybersecurity. I have also spent many years growing up on a farm and small wheat-belt town. Lately, I've been thinking about something slightly different. What happens when cybersecurity meets agriculture? Not the big agribusinesses with dedicated IT teams and security budgets. I'm talking about the farmer running a modern broadacre operation, increasingly dependent on connected machinery, GPS, sensors, cloud platforms, mobile applications