Farm Table welcomes the GRO Rural Community

Farm Table and GRO Rural are coming together to build something bigger for rural Australia: a connected, national marketplace where skills, services, and opportunities can move more freely across regions, industries, and sectors. This move is about giving rural professionals a secure home with more visibility, more tools, and more support – without losing the independent, community-first focus that both platforms were built on.

Why GRO Rural is joining Farm Table

GRO Rural was created to showcase the skills and experience of rural professionals, contractors, and remote workers – people whose careers are tightly bound to regional communities and agriculture. Bringing this community under Farm Table means their profiles and services will now sit inside a much larger ecosystem that already connects producers, agribusinesses, peak bodies, universities, and industry organisations. Farm Table’s role as an independent agricultural knowledge hub is to make it easier for those groups to find each other, collaborate, and grow – and talent is a critical part of that puzzle.

By folding GRO Rural into Farm Table, the aim is to create one central, trusted place where farmers, agribusinesses and regional employers can discover skilled people alongside information, tools, events, grants, and marketing opportunities. Instead of job seekers and contractors promoting themselves in isolation, they will be part of a broader, always-on agricultural ecosystem that’s already being used daily to search for services, solutions, and partners across the Australian supply chain.

What this means for GRO Rural subscribers

From a practical perspective, existing GRO Rural subscribers can continue to access and edit their profiles via the Farm Table management portal, seen here, with a simple password reset as part of the migration to ensure privacy and security are maintained. All current inclusions in their subscriptions remain in place, and there is active support available to help people get comfortable with the Farm Table dashboard and tools.

On top of that, subscribers will gain extra exposure to Farm Table’s established national audience of farmers, agribusinesses, and industry contacts through its website, social channels and email newsletters. Farm Table has been built around curated content and connection – from events and workshops, to funding opportunities, industry resources and marketing services – so GRO Rural members will increasingly find their profiles sitting alongside relevant opportunities and insights that match their skills and interests.

The home of Australian Agricultural focused Small Business

One of the drivers behind this move is sustainability – not just environmental, but operational and digital sustainability as well. Running any rural-focused digital platform takes ongoing investment in technology, content, security, and community management, and bringing GRO Rural into Farm Table ensures that this work happens within a stable, long-term framework. Farm Table already maintains an independent, service-centred platform designed to grow and adapt with the needs of Australian agriculture, from individual producers through to global agribusinesses entering the local market.

Privacy and data security remain central priorities. Farm Table operates as an independent space for the industry, and its model is built on trust: people share information, stories, and opportunities because they know it is being handled responsibly. The password reset step in the transition is one visible sign of that commitment, but behind the scenes there is also ongoing work on secure infrastructure, careful curation of content, and human support for anyone who has questions about how their data is used.

A larger, more connected marketplace

Farm Table has always existed to make it easier for people in agriculture to find what they need – whether that’s a new agronomy platform, an event to attend, a grant to apply for, or a marketing partner to help them tell their story. Adding GRO Rural’s professional profiles deepens that marketplace by adding human capability directly into the mix: the people who can drive projects, deliver services, and support growth across regional Australia.

For rural professionals, that means being discovered not only by employers searching for talent, but also by businesses who come to Farm Table for marketing, advisory, or digital projects and then realise they need on-the-ground expertise to execute. For farmers and agribusinesses, it means one less step between identifying a challenge and finding someone who can help solve it – whether that’s a consultant, a contractor, a remote worker or a specialist service provider

How this aligns with Farm Table’s broader mission

Farm Table’s mission is to transform Australian agriculture through connecting the best operators in the agricultural sector together, by bringing knowledge, people, and opportunities into a single, independent hub. The platform already spans an agricultural knowledge library, leadership and innovation hubs, funding and grants listings, events promotion, and specialised digital marketing and advisory services for the ag sector. GRO Rural slots naturally into this picture by strengthening the “people” side of the ecosystem – skills, careers, and capabilities.

As Farm Table steps up its role in major initiatives supporting global agribusinesses entering the Australian market, the need for visible, connected rural talent only grows. Combining GRO Rural’s professional community with Farm Table’s content, networks and industry partnerships helps ensure that when opportunities arise – locally or globally – rural Australians are front and centre, visible, and ready to be part of the solution.