Sky-high vertical farms, more gene-edited foods in supermarkets, automated farming systems and robots working in abattoirs could all help guarantee food supply in the next pandemic…Read More
Grain Central, September 3, 2020
The Australian Government will invest $86 million to establish eight Adoption and Innovation Hubs across regional Australia and will develop a Digital Foundations for Agriculture Strategy (the Digital Strategy)…Read More
Grain Central, September 2, 2020
An innovative farming family in north west NSW is using an air-borne weed sensor to rapidly detect and map weeds and combine the data with an on-farm boomspray rig to carry out low-cost spot spraying…Read More
Cindy Benjamin, WeedSmart, August 28, 2020
Pacific Seeds has set up Foundation Farm near Allora on Queensland’s Darling Downs as an innovation hub for ag-tech that will provide a trial site for emerging technological and data-based solutions…Read More
Grain Central, August 28, 2020
The adoption of cutting edge, advanced technologies in agriculture can only be progressed if the latest innovations present real value to a farmer and can be monetised by developers to realise a commercial return…Read More
Neil Lyon, August 21, 2020
AgriDigital has launched its Waypath app as a global platform for grain growers which incorporates all aspects of the supply chain including contracts, deliveries, storage, payments and invoices…Read More
Grain Central, August 21, 2020
Australia needs to change the way AgTech innovation is managed by adopting an ‘open source’ ecosystem that will benefit all stakeholders across the data value chain, according to 2019 Nuffield Scholar and SA farmer, Andrew Sargent…Read More
Do digital farmers dream of digital grain? They possibly do after playing this online farming game which featured at the Brisbane Show over the weekend. ..Read More
James Nason, August 10, 2020
Scientists at CSIRO have used artificial intelligence to identify the boundaries of about 1.7 million individual paddocks in Australia’s grain growing regions from space…Read More
Grain Central, August 7, 2020
Automated farming systems, sky-high vertical farms, more gene-edited foods in supermarkets and robots working in abattoirs could all help guarantee food supply in the next pandemic…Read More
Grain Central, July 31, 2020
Agriculture continues to be one of the major growth sectors in the adoption of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), fuelling the development and release of drone systems tailored specifically to agricultural applications…Read More
Grain Central, July 16, 2020
A study into the future of electric vehicles and robotics in agriculture has found that the move is on to develop electric farm vehicles…Read More
Neil Lyon, July 10, 2020