Global tech giant, Tesla has pitched its products to Australian farmers for the first time.

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At an Agribusiness Australia event in Melbourne, Tesla told farmers that its battery storage technology could move them beyond food and fibre and into food, fibre and energy production.

The company's Nick Carter said solar power and storage was competing against diesel as an energy source but it did provide more options for farmers.

"The history of innovation in Australia is really impressive," he said.

"The scene is basically set to drive that in the next couple of decades. I think it could be a massive area of growth."

The company believed that, compared to their European or Asian counterparts, Australian farmers have the advantage of space.

Though generally, rainfall restricted what could be grown, it did not affect the amount of power farmers could produce and store on their farm.

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"If there is land available, then use it for essentially mining or growing energy and if you're grid-connected you could end up in the future when the rules change, selling it back as another revenue stream," Mr Carter said.

The problem was, with agriculture being such a big user of power at specific times during the day to allow farmers to produce food, could a farm use the power from battery storage when it needed it?

"You've obviously got to engineer and size the system," Mr Carter said.

"If you're going to use say 2 megawatts at 9:00am or 7:00am in the morning, we can build a system around that and size the solar that goes with it or the grid connection."

The question for farmers in Australia would be a matter of cost.

At the moment diesel is a cheap power source for a lot of remote equipment on farm, and if stays that way it is unknown if many farmers will make the switch.

But if the diesel price rises sharply, the generate-and-store option for remote farm businesses in Australia could be a new normal.