The AgTech sector doesn’t have an innovation problem. In fact, the pace of innovation has never been faster. Yet the adoption of these tools continues to lag. Over the last eight years, Beanstalk has seen promising solutions struggle to reach the field. As the pressure grows on agriculture to deliver a more productive, sustainable, and resilient system, so too does the need for new models to help innovation move from potential, to practice.

Landing Pads are one such model.

At Beanstalk, we’ve seen how powerful this enabling infrastructure can be when done right; fuelling our belief that the agriculture sector needs more of it. This article is the first in a five-part series, where we will explain what Landing Pads are, what it takes to do them well, what they look like around the world, and how they can benefit Australia’s agricultural sector.

The development of this series draws on Beanstalk’s eight years of experience in building and operating agricultural Landing Pads in four countries, and we are excited to share our continued refinement of this impactful model, translating solutions from one region, to the next.