About AGRISHIFT.
What is AGRISHIFT?
Founded by Jess Armstrong, AGRISHIFT provides rangelands grazing and landscape management advice to red meat and wool businesses, with a strong focus on supporting the adoption of technology and sustainable agricultural practices that are practical, locally relevant and future-focused. Grounded in real-world agricultural experience, the work is shaped by the realities of operating in vast, variable rangeland systems.
Beyond technical advice, AGRISHIFT delivers general extension services including project management, facilitation and co-design. This work brings producers, industry, educators and communities together to develop solutions that build capability, confidence and connection across southern NSW. Whether designing pilot programs, supporting workforce initiatives or guiding collaborative projects, AGRISHIFT focuses on outcomes that strengthen both businesses and the people within them.
Meet Jess, Founder & Owner AGRISHIFT
At its core, AGRISHIFT exists to challenge how agriculture thinks about workforce, learning and sustainability. The business was born from lived experience in rural Australia, where opportunity is often determined by access to support, a sense of belonging and the ability to learn safely. AGRISHIFT creates spaces on-farm and in community where people can build skills, test ideas and grow into long-term careers in agriculture.
Jess Armstrong is the founder of AGRISHIFT. With five years of experience across the agricultural supply chain, Jess brings a practical, grounded understanding of the industry, from rural merchandise and stockfeed logistics to horticultural pest and disease monitoring, and agricultural extension with organisations such as Holbrook Landcare Network and Local Land Services.
Her passion for supporting producers and strengthening rural communities led her to formally launch AGRISHIFT to expand work she had been doing in the red meat, drought resilience and workforce space.
Jess is driven by the diversity and continual learning that come with working in extension where every conversation, demonstration, or workshop can contribute to meaningful change and capability building within the industry.
When she’s not delivering projects, you’ll likely find her on the family property near Balranald mustering sheep on the motorbike, helping with fencing, or contributing her time to various sub‑committees and alumni groups she’s passionate about.
Jess is always open to collaboration, new ideas, and opportunities that strengthen the future of agriculture.