Modern agriculture’s high levels of production and global markets have been made possible through vast inputs of fossil fuels for machinery, transport, fertilizer, chemicals, crop and processed food production. Consequently, the peaking and depletion of oil, which eventually will be followed by gas, will challenge how we both produce agricultural output and live in rural and remote Australia. Current analysis estimates that maximum global oil production will plateau before supply begins to decline at a rate between four and six percent per annum by the end of this decade. Despite the imminent decline of global oil production, Australia’s academic research and responsive government policy and planning development for this event has been marg...