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  • Satellites just the beginning in sensor journey
    Satellites just the beginning in sensor journey
    Author: Rebecca Thyer, 2022-05-26T09:00:00+10:00

    At just 35, Ben Boughton’s remote-sensing journey has already included a Nuffield Australia Scholarship and an agtech start-up. With that business sold, he is looking at how satellite imagery and other technology can help on the family farm

  • Machine learning swinging the odds against weeds
    Machine learning swinging the odds against weeds
    Author: Rebecca Thyer, 2022-05-25T09:00:00+10:00

    Weed technologies are evolving as new control options are developed. Optical spot sprayers are being increasingly adopted across Queensland’s Darling Downs and northern NSW, while the Single family has taken to the skies with a drone-mounted weed detector

  • Weed detection technologies taking flight
    Weed detection technologies taking flight
    Author: Rebecca Thyer, 2022-05-24T09:00:00+10:00

    Just four years ago, Guy Coleman began working as a precision weed control scientist in rural NSW. He has since created an open-source weed detector to help educate and improve these technologies

  • Online gallery puts everyone in the weeds control picture
    Online gallery puts everyone in the weeds control picture
    Author: Rebecca Thyer, 2022-05-23T09:00:00+10:00

    An industry first open-source platform that provides a place for contributions aims to overcome a lack of weed images that has been hampering the development of weed-specific controls.

  • Sensor helps untangle sorghum’s complicated water use interactions
    Sensor helps untangle sorghum’s complicated water use interactions
    Author: Rebecca Thyer, 2022-05-22T09:00:00+10:00

    Although sowing sorghum in winter helps avoid stress at sensitive crop stages, little is known about root growth and function in cold soils, or how genotype and management combinations affect root growth and water use. A sensor is helping to fill in those gaps

  • Tools to 'see' mungbean success part of new research phase
    Tools to 'see' mungbean success part of new research phase
    Author: Rebecca Thyer, 2022-05-04T09:00:00+10:00

    The National Mungbean Improvement Program is entering its fifth iteration and aims to address how to assess gains in grain quality stability that can no longer be visually detected, while using pre-breeding screening methods to identify improved heat tolerance germplasm.

  • Modelling looks to predict when mouse plagues will end
    Modelling looks to predict when mouse plagues will end
    Author: Rebecca Thyer, 2022-04-18T09:00:00+10:00

    Various research projects are helping improve mouse plague modelling and management, including the ability to better predict a plague’s end point

  • Lessons learned from last plague help hone mouse strategy
    Lessons learned from last plague help hone mouse strategy
    Author: Rebecca Thyer, 2022-04-17T09:00:00+10:00

    A risk management approach, learned from previous experience, helped Bruce Watson somewhat mitigate damage from the recent mouse plague

  • Pre-breeding co-investment tackles sorghum lodging
    Pre-breeding co-investment tackles sorghum lodging
    Author: Rebecca Thyer, 2022-04-14T09:00:00+10:00

    A new $11.6 million, five-and-a-half-year joint investment aims to address lodging in sorghum, an issue consistently rated as the most significant concern facing sorghum growers

  • Long coleoptile wheat may counter poor establishment
    Long coleoptile wheat may counter poor establishment
    Author: Rebecca Thyer, 2022-04-12T09:00:00+10:00

    It is early days, but long coleoptile wheat research in Central and Southern Queensland has the potential to boost yields

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