Agriculture startup Agworld from Perth was founded in 2008 by Doug Fitch and Chris Ramsay has raised $6m in another round from international investors Reed Elsevier and Yuuwa bringing their total funding to $12m.

Agworld provide farm management software from $62 per month and are part of a new crop of farm automation and commerce tech startups from Sydney including –

• FarmBot (by Craig Hendricks and Michael Warner) who has been backed by Telstra and graduated from their accelerator Muru-D last week who provide long distance water sensing on tanks allowing near real-time trend level management remotely. SydStart has been a supporter of Muru-D since inception with mentoring and judging.
• FoodOrbit (by James Nathan) who connect farms with unique produce to commercial end-consumers like high end restaurants has been backed by BlueChilli. SydStart supporter MarketBoomer are also backers of FoodOrbit. 
• CloudHerd who aim to track livestock inventory and conduct auctions was…