The key message of the 2017 Farming Together Forum held at the Adelaide Convention Centre this week was the need for family farms to collaborate to become more profitable.
The informative program covered how value can be extracted from big data, the use of crowd funding in agriculture, plus several examples of successful farmer co-operatives across Australia.
The Farm Co-operatives and Collaboration Pilot Program is backed by $13.8m of federal government funding.
It aims to unlock the potential of family farms to form co-operatives to have greater control of the supply chain.
In the first year the initiative has engaged with 700 farmer groups representing 16,000 farmers.
Forty projects have been successful in the first round of farmer group grants, including three in SA.
