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  • Phenomics to improve disease management and resistance breeding
    Precision Agriculture and Machinery, 06 Sep 2024
    Phenomics to improve disease management and resistance breeding

    In the quest for sustainable agriculture, the effective management of crop diseases and the development of resilient, disease-resistant crops are paramount. Phenomics, the study of an organism’s physical and biochemical traits as influenced by the environment and genetics, has emerged as a powerful tool to achieve these goals. GRDC is investing in these new methods, both at field and laboratory level. Barley Net blotches, wheat rusts and blackleg in canola are the first targets.

  • Phenomics – the link between crop genetics and performance
    Precision Agriculture and Machinery, 04 Sep 2024
    Phenomics – the link between crop genetics and performance

    Bridging the knowledge gap between improving crop genetics and evaluating field performance has traditionally been time-consuming and laborious. But new technologies are enabling a step change in accuracy and throughput by using innovative platforms and advanced sensors to accelerate exciting advances in crop improvement. The Australian Plant Phenomics Network (APPN), supported by significant investments from federal and state governments, universities and GRDC, is providing much-needed infrastructure to facilitate this step change.

  • Big data approach improves on-farm trial insights
    Precision Agriculture and Machinery, 29 Aug 2024
    Big data approach improves on-farm trial insights

    Researchers at CCDM are using precision agricultural tools like yield maps and remote sensing to manage variability in Australian cropping systems, improving crop yields and quality. With GRDC and Food Agility CRC support and in collaboration with industry partners, they aim to develop spatial analysis tools for growers, helping them to make more informed decisions through visualisation of data, implementation of on-farm experimental strip trials and advanced statistical methods.

  • 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

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