Technology Archives - Precision Ag

published - 3 March 2020
By Natacha Hes

Guest webinar with Dr Mario Fajardo on soil spectroscopy

Yesterday the Precision Ag CoP held it’s first-ever Guest Webinar featuring Dr Mario Fajardo, a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow from the Precision Agricultural Laboratory at the University of Sydney. Mario presented on his thesis topic of soil spectroscopy. The video recording of the webinar is now available to view.

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Data, Technology

published - 20 December 2019
By Matt Notley and Natacha Hes

Smoozing at steeDA

Precision Ag CoP member Matt Notley and Project Officer Natacha Hes visited the University of Sydney earlier this month for the steeDA Conference organised by the Institute of Agriculture.
The steeDA Conference focused on science, technology, engineering and economics for Digital Agriculture. The conference ran over three full days and featured …
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GRDC, steeDA, USQ, USyd

Connectivity, Technology

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 - 4 July 2019
By Helen McMillan

Removing freeloaders from the flock: Individual animal performance testing

Farmers are moving away from having all their records written to having the information stored in an EID (Electronic Identification) tag in an animal’s ear. This tiny piece of plastic can store all of the animal’s history, from birth date to weaning weight, pregnant, twins, singles or dry, fleece weight …
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Connectivity, Livestock, 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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Pastures, Technology

published - 18 January 2019
By Amy Cosby

GPS Cows launches internationally

Dr Amy Cosby, Research Fellow in Agri-tech Education and Innovation at CQUniversity Australia (CQU) has just returned from a trip to the US where she was promoting an Australian agricultural education initiative – GPS cows.
The GPS Cows program (GPS Cows) is a collaborative project funded by the NSW Department of …
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Livestock, Technology

published - 18 January 2019
By Natacha Hes

Introducing the Precision Ag CoP

The Precision Ag Community of Practice (PA CoP) was established in 2018 to bring the latest developments in Precision Agriculture to broadacre cropping and livestock farmers. Its prime focus is to educate regarding the benefits of Precision Agriculture and to build the capacity of farmers and advisors to implement available …
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Connectivity, Technology