Pastures Archives - Precision Ag

published - 18 November 2019
By Adrian Roles and Natacha Hes

An insight into postdoctoral research in Precision Ag @ USyd

Ahead of the upcoming steeDA Conference being held from the 3-5 of December, the Precision Ag CoP recently caught up with CoP member Brett Whelan and some of the postdoctoral fellows at the University of Sydney Institute of Agriculture.
CoP Leader Adrian Roles and Project Officer Natacha Hes interviewed three postdoctoral …
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Connectivity, Data, Pastures, Technology

published - 12 August 2019
By Eva Moffitt

Towards best practice soil amelioration – a joint project between Farmlink Research and Precision Agriculture Pty Ltd

With the growing availability of commercial precision agriculture (PA) data collection services and variable rate (VR) application technologies, an increasing number of producers within the FarmLink region are adopting site-specific soil amelioration practices for lime and gypsum inputs.
This project examines the ability of a number of data collection methods including …
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Connectivity, Cropping, Data, Pastures, Technology

published - 18 January 2019
By Adrian Roles

Ag Robots

The demand for food is increasing, but due to the shortage of skilled and semi-skilled workforce in many farming areas there are fewer farmers to grow the food. The use of automation may be one way to address this labour shortage.
An increasing form of automation in agriculture is the use …
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