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Partnerships and vision are key to an autonomous future
Supplement: Grain Automate and Digital Agronomy, May-June 2024 - 2024-06-03T09:50:00+10:00GRDC’s Grain Automate strategy is seeking to help growers realise even more profitable and sustainable farming systems into the future
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Machinery innovations to revolutionise weed control
Supplement: Grain Automate and Digital Agronomy, May-June 2024 - 2024-06-03T09:45:00+10:00Work is underway to use the data capabilities of precision agriculture machinery to create a step-change advance in reducing herbicide dependency
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Rolling out green-on-green spot spraying
Supplement: Grain Automate and Digital Agronomy, May-June 2024 - 2024-06-03T09:40:00+10:00A machinery company and a chemical company are collaborating on green-on-green spot spraying technology while also seeking to register site-specific chemical use
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Variable-rate technology for pre-emergent herbicides
Supplement: Grain Automate and Digital Agronomy, May-June 2024 - 2024-06-03T09:35:00+10:00Trials are getting underway to test the feasibility of using geospatial paddock data to create zones in which pre-emergent products are applied at varying rates and in varying product mixes in a single pass
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Spot spraying guided from space
Supplement: Grain Automate and Digital Agronomy, May-June 2024 - 2024-06-03T09:30:00+10:00A project is underway to fast-track the use of satellite imagery to obtain the data needed to differentially spray herbicides and fungicides only where they are needed
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Weed-killing robots leave chemicals in the shed
Supplement: Grain Automate and Digital Agronomy, May-June 2024 - 2024-06-03T09:25:00+10:00SwarmFarm Robotics is exploring opportunities to partner with farm machinery manufacturers to co-develop non-chemical weed-killing technology that can be operated by its autonomous robotic vehicles
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Automated detection takes guesswork from fungicide response
Supplement: Grain Automate and Digital Agronomy, May-June 2024 - 2024-06-03T09:20:00+10:00BioScout’s next-generation spore traps leverage automated microscopy and machine learning to provide near real-time insights into airborne fungal disease threats. This allows growers to take targeted action and optimise spray programs, including through a newly launched automated surveillance network
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SoilWaterNow: space technology in your paddock
Supplement: Grain Automate and Digital Agronomy, May-June 2024 - 2024-06-03T09:15:00+10:00Progress in Earth observation and computing now enable soil water estimates at different depth increments and the within-paddock scale needed for dryland farms
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Emerging new generation of nitrogen management tools
Supplement: Grain Automate and Digital Agronomy, May-June 2024 - 2024-06-03T09:10:00+10:00Commercialisation has begun on the outputs from the Future Farm initiative, which sought to deliver more-targeted, precise and profitable fertiliser decisions in near-automated processes that are more efficient for agronomists and growers
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3D maps take soils management to new levels
Supplement: Grain Automate and Digital Agronomy, May-June 2024 - 2024-06-03T09:05:00+10:00New data-processing methods and machine learning are being used to develop advanced, but easy-to-use, soil management tools that can generate three-dimensional maps of soil constraints and water-holding capacity on-farm