After stumbling across a project by accident, Scott Macmillan is now leading Invictus Energy on what could be a country changing exploration mission in Zimbabwe. JESSICA GABITES reports. Zimbabwe is not a traditional exploration and production heartland, explains Zimbabwean raised Scott Macmillan, Managing Director of Australian oil and gas junior Invictus Energy. However, Scott and
The oil and gas industry has played a key role in the Australian economy for about half a century, but it is coming under increasing pressure to alter its business model amid the energy transition. JOSH LEWIS explains. Resources Minister Keith Pitt revealed last month that Australia’s resources and energy export earnings are forecast to
Change is the only constant, as the saying goes. Just ask anyone in oil and gas, politics or economics. Or The Yield’s editorial department for that matter, where COVID finally found a foothold and knocked us down one after the other like a chain of dominoes. Fortunately, we’ve managed to cough it out, complete the
We have a real soft spot for all things farming, a taste for good food and a considerable thirst for beverages of most kinds at The Yield. So when the troops gathered for the editorial planning meeting and realised we’d originally intended to give this issue a pre-election focus, there was a resounding cry of
Global demand for Australian food, beverage and other agricultural produce is soaring, but it’s high time for governments and investors to get behind emerging, innovative opportunities. SIMON SHEPHERDSON investigates. As much as Australia may once have been built on the sheep’s back, today the agricultural sector accounts for just 1.9 per cent of GDP
There’s a lot more to the humble lupin than green fertiliser or stock feed. SIMON SHEPHERDSON spoke to David Fienberg, founder of The Lupin Co, about the exceptional nutritional benefits of this once maligned legume. Lupins have long been a popular choice among Australian farmers to replenish nitrogen in the soil. And for a long
Yield in Focus – SeaStock on methane reduction Burps and farts! Now that we have your attention, let’s talk about Asparagopsis, the biological name for a native seaweed that’s prolific off our coast. The really impressive thing when used as a livestock feed supplement, Asparagopsis reduces methane emissions - from both ends
Yield in Focus - 3 Q's for 3 Leaders 03 March 22 Three business leaders share their insights into leadership, motivation and lessons learned. And in a subtle nod to International Women's Day for this issue of Yield In Focus, the three leaders are all women.
Borders, bosses, barramundi and Bitcoin The headline’s not entirely accurate, but who’d let the hard facts get in the way of some nice alliteration? Not us at The Yield anyway. That’s not to say it’s fictitious – in fact all of those things are loosely involved. It’s just that the barramundi
Getting back to business now the borders are down Many businesses were necessarily quick to adapt when COVID restrictions such as WA’s hard border came into force. But with the last state border in the country now open again, what’s the current situation for businesses and what adjustments will be
