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  • 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.

  • PA Symposium a fertile forum for learning
    Precision Agriculture and Machinery, 27 Nov 2023
    PA Symposium a fertile forum for learning

    Peer-to-peer learning can be a powerful means of building knowledge and capacity and was on show in the form of a variety of activities at the September 2023 Australasian Precision Agriculture Symposium.

  • Knowledge shared a key adoption driver
    Precision Agriculture and Machinery, 29 Sep 2023
    Knowledge shared a key adoption driver

    A national education program has produced resources to help growers reduce input costs through variable-rate technology

  • Flexible thinking needed for 2022’s excessive rainfall
    Precision Agriculture and Machinery, 15 Sep 2023
    Flexible thinking needed for 2022’s excessive rainfall

    In central Queensland, a flexible approach to harvesting, storage and seeding was needed to get through the unprecedented rain brought by last year’s La Nina.

  • Variable-rate technology adds input efficiency to cropping, experts say
    Precision Agriculture and Machinery, 23 Aug 2023
    Variable-rate technology adds input efficiency to cropping, experts say

    Have you considered variable-rate cropping? Three experts outline its benefits

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