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  • 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.

  • GRDC guide helps with farm machinery decision-making
    Precision Agriculture and Machinery, 26 Jan 2022
    GRDC guide helps with farm machinery decision-making

    New research into one of the most hotly debated line items on the farm budget, machinery, has resulted in the development of a comprehensive investment guide for Australian grain growers.

  • Improving harvester set-up an ongoing conversation
    Precision Agriculture and Machinery, 23 Jan 2022
    Improving harvester set-up an ongoing conversation

    More than 600 growers attended GRDC-invested harvester set-up forums during 2021. The forums provided information and discussion around preventable harvester losses, improvements in efficiency and output, calibrating harvester technology, reducing the risk of harvester fires and methods of harvest weed seed control.

  • Protein monitoring sharpens the nitrogen picture
    Precision Agriculture and Machinery, 04 Nov 2021
    Protein monitoring sharpens the nitrogen picture

    A great season is helping to kickstart variable-rate nitrogen practices, although water use efficiency remains the number one goal

  • Novel analysis to improve utility of on-farm research
    Precision Agriculture and Machinery, 13 Oct 2021
    Novel analysis to improve utility of on-farm research

    Innovative analysis is enabling more accurate interpretation of large-scale trials to inform management decisions. Combining yield maps, drone information, gross margins and potential more data will lead to vastly improved decision making for growers.

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