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00:00 [Music plays]

00:03 From humble beginnings, we've now grown to a team of over 70 people

00:07 around Australia and 10 in the US.

00:10 We're on some 4,000 sheep, cattle stations and ranches across the world.

00:16 We think we're really just starting our growth opportunity

00:20 to change the face of farming and ranching in the world.

00:25 It's been super exciting watching FarmBot grow into America as RanchBot.

00:31 In the genesis of FarmBot, we were thinking about the huge cost

00:35 associated with driving to check water all the time.

00:38 And we thought, what if we could do that and provide real-time reporting for farmers

00:42 so that they didn't need to go and check and instead,

00:45 they could go and fix things that need fixing when they need fixing.

00:50 FarmBot talks directly to the water sources on the farm,

00:56 whether that's a water storage tank, a pipe, a trough

01:00 or anything else on the farm that you want to connect through our sensors.

01:05 And then the device itself communicates back with satellites or 4G communication

01:10 to provide real-time monitoring of those assets on the farm.

01:16 So here we have our FarmBot rain gauge.

01:18 That is the most common addition to a FarmBot.

01:22 It allows you to automatically record your rainfall at the tank,

01:27 taking away the need from those manual rain gauges and needing to empty them daily.

01:32 You're able to export your data, compare the data.

01:36 We show you a month-on-month, year-on-year and a 90-day rolling average.

01:42 Water management in agriculture is obviously a global challenge,

01:46 one that's spoken about from the United Nations all the way down to the paddock.

01:51 It's a job that just has to be done every day.

01:53 And we thought, really, what if we could put that alerts and warnings

01:59 about water management issues in the farmer's pocket on their cell phone or on their laptop

02:05 and provide them real-time alerts and warnings about water problems on their farm.

02:11 We only build devices that can be sent out to a farmer in a box.

02:15 They have to be able to take them out of the box,

02:17 not read the instructions because we know they won't turn them on and they have to work.

02:26 We find events like AgSmart Connect really important to get there and show them firsthand

02:32 how simple and reliable technology like FarmBot can be.

02:36 We need to be where farmers are when they're thinking about working on the business, not in it.

02:43 They're going to events like this to think about,

02:47 "Hey, how can I run my farm better and what are the technologies and opportunities there?"

02:53 We think, start with things that are big problems every day that you can solve readily

02:57 and we think water management is one of those things that really can be solved

03:02 and the technology now is proven, easy and very, very affordable.

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