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Ag Robots

Introducing the Precision Ag CoP

Data Potential in the Digital Agriculture Revolution

GPS Cows launches internationally

Using fuel usage to examine soil type variability

Yield data calibration

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 Adrian Roles

Data Potential in the Digital Agriculture Revolution

There have been two agricultural revolutions – the first was the mechanical and the second was the green revolution. We are now at the start of a third, in the form of the digital agriculture revolution.
The potential for new digital agriculture technologies to have impacts and implications is still unclear, …
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Cropping, Data

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

published - 18 January 2019
By Eva Moffitt

Using fuel usage to examine soil type variability

Eva Moffitt, Senior Research Officer at FarmLink discusses how fuel usage data can be useful for farmers in determining soil type variability in paddocks.
The images below were taken from a paddock south-east of West Wyalong in NSW (‘North West’, 142 ha).
1. Fuel usage coverage map from 2018 seeding
2. Cation Exchange …
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Cropping, Data, Home

published - 18 January 2019
By Adrian Roles

Yield data calibration

To calibrate a yield monitor correctly you are required to consider all the parts that make up the yield monitor system: mass flow sensor, moisture sensor and clean grain elevator. Of these the most important is the mass flow sensor.
Located at the top of the clean grain elevator is an …
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Cropping, Data, Home

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Ag Robots

Introducing the Precision Ag CoP

Data Potential in the Digital Agriculture Revolution

GPS Cows launches internationally

Using fuel usage to examine soil type variability

Yield data calibration

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Ag Robots

Data Potential in the Digital Agriculture Revolution

GPS Cows launches internationally

Introducing the Precision Ag CoP

Using fuel usage to examine soil type variability

Yield data calibration