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Vol 46 - No 2 15/4/2025
NDVI maps for targeted product applications in cotton
Emma Ayliffe, director of Summit Ag in Lake Cargelligo, NSW, is a former Young Farmer of the Year and the 2021 Chris Lehmann Trust Cotton Achiever of the Year. She and her partner manage a 10,000 hectare mixed cropping enterprise, which also serves as a testing ground for new ideas, including the three uses of NDVI discussed in this article.
Vol 46 - No 2 15/4/2025
Thryvon trait to manage thrips
How does double fruit retention and less insecticide applied sound? Pretty good!
Vol 46 - No 2 15/4/2025
SwarmFarm automated refilling unlocks high-volume spray applications
It’s been over a decade since Gindie farmers Andrew and Jocie Bate began building small, lightweight bots to work in swarms to push back on the ‘get big or get out’ answer to increasing machinery productivity.
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Vol 46 - No 2 15/4/2025
Autonomous weed-targeting: AI drones a sky-high success
A cost-saving, environment-protecting smart system to target weeds in crops has proved effective in trials at a Central Queensland farm.
Vol 46 - No 2 15/4/2025
Practical AI on farms
The combination of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and data is opening the door to a new wave of decision-making tools for farmers.
Vol 46 - No 1 11/2/2025
Precision agriculture new frontier: Crop digital twins
Crop farmers in South Texas are witnessing the future of agriculture unfold with the advent of digital-twin technology. Spearheaded by Texas A&M AgriLife Research, this cutting-edge approach combines remote sensing, big data and artificial intelligence to simulate and predict real-world crop production scenarios.
Vol 46 - No 1 11/2/2025
Opportunities for using artificial intelligence in agriculture
The impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is dominating conversations around the globe, and the agriculture sector is no different, with the main questions around what it means for the industry and how it can be used to the greatest effect.
Vol 45 - No 7 17/12/2024
Robotic weed manager pays its way
Andrew and Cynthia Pursehouse and their eldest son James have recently ‘employed’ a Swarmbot named ‘Mooki’, as their dedicated fallow spot-spraying unit.
20/2/2024
Track design and quality - does it really matter?
It's a track and it fits on your machine. So now it just comes down to price and warranty period, right? Well, not quite - in fact not even close. Of course, the most important thing to any savvy business owner, is to achieve the lowest cost per operating hour. This must include the cost of downtime and maintenance in addition to the life and cost of the product itself.
19/12/2023
Tyre and track quality - Are you getting what you paid for?
Rubber is rubber, right? Well, it's not that simple. In fact, it would be like saying food is food when the taste and quality of food is as varied as the people that walk the earth. The quality of the rubber used to make tyres or tracks is a difficult and often secretive science.
