Agriculture is the next frontier for space tech, with billion-dollar opportunities to super-charge technology adoption for farmers over the next five to 10 years…Read More
Grain Central, April 21, 2021
Satellite imagery now has the capacity to provide farmers with time-critical data on crop performance and can even pre-empt problems long before they become apparent to the naked eye…Read More
Neil Lyon, March 19, 2021
UPL Ltd and TeleSense have announced a collaboration which will help TeleSense strengthen its sales channel by introducing monitoring solutions for post-harvest commodity storage and transport to multiple stakeholders across the agriculture value chain…Read More
Grain Central, February 1, 2021
Researchers have been able to predict soybean maturity date within two days using drone images and artificial intelligence, greatly reducing the need for boots on the ground…Read More
Grain Central, December 11, 2020
Farmers can now better understand the potential opportunities from carbon-reducing activities using a farming tool developed by CSIRO…Read More
Grain Central, December 11, 2020
An Australian company focused on resolving inadequate internet and phone connectivity in rural and remote Australia has claimed one of the top prizes in a US food and ag-tech competition…Read More
Grain Central, November 24, 2020
The Internet of Things (IoT) is already all around us, but Australia has been late to develop policies and some limited regulation to take advantage of the technology and mitigate its harmful impacts…Read More
Kayleen Manwaring and Peter Leonard, UNSW, November 24, 2020
Monash University researchers have published the first-ever analysis of the ethical and policy issues raised by the use of robots in agriculture…Read More
Grain Central, November 23, 2020
Agtech company DataFarming has launched G-Cover to help summer croppers use NDVI more effectively during the peak of the growing season…Read More
Grain Central, November 18, 2020
Harvesters fitted with Cognitive Pilot autonomous operating systems have harvested more than 720,000 tonnes of crops over 160,000 hectares in Russia this season…Read More
Grain Central, November 4, 2020
A draft code of practice (COP) covering the development and application of autonomous machinery in agriculture has been drawn up and distributed to stakeholders for feedback…Read More
Neil Lyon, October 21, 2020
A new study is exploring why farmers should be looking to space to solve industry challenges and help the sector take full advantage of opportunities on the horizon…Read More
Grain Central, October 1, 2020