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
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
A revolutionary mobile surveillance unit is about to be deployed to gather intelligence on plant pests and diseases…Read More
Grain Central, September 17, 2019
Scientists have developed a tool to analyse leafing patterns of plants based on remote camera data, overcoming many of the laborious and error-prone practices of manual observation…Read More
Grain Central, August 16, 2019
New machinery monitoring technology that provides real-time data on a tractor or harvester’s ‘health’ is helping farmers and their service providers identify emerging problems and nip them in the bud before they become full-blown issues. ..Read More
Neil Lyon, June 7, 2019With the recent landing on Mars of NASA’s InSight lander, bringing closer the prospect of humans one day visiting the planet, scientists are puzzling over how to grow the food to feed them there…Read More
Briardo Llorente, December 7, 2018
The assessment of a range of irrigation systems by the Gwydir Valley Irrigators Association points to a future of automated, water-efficient, labour-saving systems taking over from traditional, hand-shift siphon irrigation…Read More
Neil Lyon, December 5, 2018
