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  • Partnerships and vision are key to an autonomous future
    Precision Agriculture and Machinery, 03 Jun 2024
    Partnerships and vision are key to an autonomous future

    GRDC’s Grain Automate strategy is seeking to help growers realise even more profitable and sustainable farming systems into the future

  • Machinery innovations to revolutionise weed control
    Precision Agriculture and Machinery, 03 Jun 2024
    Machinery innovations to revolutionise weed control

    Work is underway to use the data capabilities of precision agriculture machinery to create a step-change advance in reducing herbicide dependency

  • Rolling out green-on-green spot spraying
    Precision Agriculture and Machinery, 03 Jun 2024
    Rolling out green-on-green spot spraying

    A machinery company and a chemical company are collaborating on green-on-green spot spraying technology while also seeking to register site-specific chemical use

  • Variable-rate technology for pre-emergent herbicides
    Precision Agriculture and Machinery, 03 Jun 2024
    Variable-rate technology for pre-emergent herbicides

    Trials 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

  • Spot spraying guided from space
    Precision Agriculture and Machinery, 03 Jun 2024
    Spot spraying guided from space

    A 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

  • Weed-killing robots leave chemicals in the shed
    Precision Agriculture and Machinery, 03 Jun 2024
    Weed-killing robots leave chemicals in the shed

    SwarmFarm 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

  • SoilWaterNow: space technology in your paddock
    Precision Agriculture and Machinery, 03 Jun 2024
    SoilWaterNow: space technology in your paddock

    Progress in Earth observation and computing now enable soil water estimates at different depth increments and the within-paddock scale needed for dryland farms

  • 3D maps take soils management to new levels
    Precision Agriculture and Machinery, 03 Jun 2024
    3D maps take soils management to new levels

    New 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

  • New SPAA manual brings grower insight to precision ag
    Precision Agriculture and Machinery, 26 Feb 2024
    New SPAA manual brings grower insight to precision ag

    The Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) and the Society of Precision Agriculture Australia (SPAA) have released the "PA in Practice III" manual, a significant resource aimed at enhancing precision agriculture (PA) adoption among Australian grain growers. Unveiled by GRDC Western Panel chair Darrin Lee at the Grains Research Update in Perth, this publication emerges from the collaborative project on precision fertiliser decisions in economically challenging times. Addressing a growing demand among growers for PA education and extension, the manual offers over 100 pages of detailed guidance on PA application throughout the farming season, from pre-sowing to harvest.

  • Flying fungicide? Drones could rescue bogged paddocks
    Precision Agriculture and Machinery, 08 Jan 2024
    Flying fungicide? Drones could rescue bogged paddocks

    Without a spray, Paul McGorman’s faba beans did not stand a chance in a very wet year, which has led him to investigate whether spraying using a drone could be the way forward.

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