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  • Tyne machine favoured for sticky sodic clays
    Precision Agriculture and Machinery, 02 Jun 2022
    Tyne machine favoured for sticky sodic clays

    A NSW farming family found disc seeding was not suited to their soils, highlighting the great diversity of circumstances and approaches to getting each season off to its best start

  • Machine learning swinging the odds against weeds
    Precision Agriculture and Machinery, 25 May 2022
    Machine learning swinging the odds against weeds

    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
    Precision Agriculture and Machinery, 24 May 2022
    Weed detection technologies taking flight

    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
    Precision Agriculture and Machinery, 23 May 2022
    Online gallery puts everyone in the weeds control picture

    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.

  • Care worth more than precision in seeding pulses
    Precision Agriculture and Machinery, 20 May 2022
    Care worth more than precision in seeding pulses

    Trials showed precision seeding improved plant spacing and stand uniformity; however, yields were not consistently better than with conventional seeding.

  • Windrowing an aid to harvest logistics
    Precision Agriculture and Machinery, 08 May 2022
    Windrowing an aid to harvest logistics

    A small on-farm trial compared direct heading of canola versus windrowing at Breil Jackson’s property near Nyngan, New South Wales

  • Deep-learning imaging to picture crop health
    Precision Agriculture and Machinery, 11 Apr 2022
    Deep-learning imaging to picture crop health

    Using a technique that has become known for internet ‘deepfakes’, researchers are working to improve image detection in cereals for use in research and commercial fields

  • Autonomous agriculture just a step away
    Precision Agriculture and Machinery, 05 Apr 2022
    Autonomous agriculture just a step away

    The technical review behind the autonomous machinery code of practice has found that these technologies are fast approaching

  • Rock-busting and rolling boosts yields in difficult country
    Precision Agriculture and Machinery, 11 Mar 2022
    Rock-busting and rolling boosts yields in difficult country

    With the advent of rock-crushing machines, growers can now break up most surface and shallow subsurface rocks, turning previously unusable country into arable paddocks and boosting yields. Machines work like a wood plane or cheese grater, cracking and peeling the rock.

  • On-farm amelioration concept shifts into top gear
    Precision Agriculture and Machinery, 01 Feb 2022
    On-farm amelioration concept shifts into top gear

    South Australian grower Rob Pocock plans to use a new 'plough and sow' machine as part of a holistic program that aims to lift soil performance on his family's mixed farm at Lameroo.

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