About Us

AgriGate is a facilitator and coordinator, assisting groups of people to move forward, make decisions and achieve action plans.
AgriGate was developed to improve communication and ensure action within groups, teams, value chains and families.
AgriGate believes that meaningful communication is the key to productivity, and satisfying business, family and value chain relationships.

The AgriGate Model
The AgriGate Model is a representation of our philosophy and approach to working with groups of rural people. This model has been developed and tested over several years.

AgriGate brings a unique blend of passion, empathy and transparency to any group task. We ensure accountability, structure and enable meaningful communication to occur within the group. The outcome is that our groups achieve heightened group participation, enjoy effective decision making and are high performers.

AgriGate People
Emily Martin is the Principal of AgriGate Networx. Emily has worked with groups of primary producers and supply chains across rural Australia for 10 years, and has a reputation for being straight talking and results driven. Formal qualifications in Rural Management are enhanced by her trademark emphasis on clear, meaningful communication, structure, process and accountability.  Emily is also an accredited Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) administrator.

The AgriGate Logo
We are often asked the origins of our logo, so we'll satisfy your curiosity!

1. AgriGate is a pun on the word 'aggregate', meaning the collective or group. We chose this word because we believe we can achieve more as a group than we can as individuals.
2. The green lines form a gateway, because we encourage groups to look outside the farm gate and towards global trends, and beyond individual needs to a group benefit.
3. The arrow head at the top of the open gate symbolises vision, the future, goals and achievement.
4. Lime green represents youth, innovation, enthusiasm, passion and freshness.
5. Royal blue represents the quality of our products, loyalty and commitment to our groups, and the traditional aspects of our rural culture we wish to preserve.

When this logo was developed, a colleague working in agriculture said "you can't use lime green - it looks like you're nitrogen deficient!" AgriGate is not afraid to do things differently………

Special Interests
"There are many things in life that catch your eye, but only a few things will catch your heart……….. Pursue those with all your passion." Keith Abraham

• Groups of people working together to achieve in rural Australia - supply chains, producer groups, industries, project teams and farming families.
•  Young People in Agriculture - AgriGate has been involved with the Queensland Department of Primary Industries' Young People in Rural Industry Liaison Group, and the Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry's Young Rural Leaders Program and is a proud supporter of the Future Farmers Network.
• Economic Development in Regional Australia - AgriGate aims to influence and promote economic development in rural and regional Australia.