Precision Agriculture

Fertiliser Management for Emissions Reduction in Victorian Dairy Industry This podcast discusses the ways to demonstrate the value of more precise soil and fertiliser management in the Gippsland dairy industry.

From satellite imagery to yield information and even elevation data, precision agriculture technology collects some pretty amazing information. You may not realise however, that it can potentially be the deciding factor in insurance cases involving fires, spray drift, hail events and flooding. Find out more about this little known aspect of precision agriculture in this episode of the Precision Ag Podcast with PA director Tim Neale.

Precision Ag has changed the game for irrigators, with their new technology taking the guesswork out of knowing the storage volumes of irrigation dams. Today on the podcast we talk to PA director Tim Neale about the huge difference PA will make for irrigators making critical decisions about how much water they've got, and therefore how much crop to plant. Tim believes this technology is going to become more important with variable seasons - listen in to find out how they can work out the volume of dams, whether they're full or dry!

Today we meet Milton Curpatrick on the Precision Ag Podcast, who is based in the New England region of northern New South Wales with the Precision Ag team. He has been working on precision agriculture in pastures, and joins the program to talk us through the benefits local farmers have found using the technology!

On this Precision Ag Podcast, we meet Bindi Isbister, who talks about her role as a precision ag consultant in WA, the adoption of the technology in the west, and how it can be used to maximise on-farm efficiency and profitability.

On this Precision Ag Podcast, we are joined by Russell Ford, who is Manager of Rice Research Australia. He's been working with the Precision Ag team to implement PA technology more widely in the rice industry, with a particular focus on understanding variability in rice fields.

Ian Layden from the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, has been working with the Precision Ag team on a couple of horticultural projects in Queensland which are aiming to showcase the benefits of precision ag technology in the industry - find out more on this episode of the Precision Ag Podcast!

Josh Walter from Murnong Farming has been working with the Precision Ag team to solve some drainage problems on his near Inverleigh in Victoria. Find out how he went on this edition of the Precision Ag Podcast!

On this edition of the Precision Ag Podcast, we meet Evan Lord, who is farm manager of Cowabbie Mukoora in southern NSW. They have been working with the Precision Ag team on pH mapping on the property and have made some big savings as a result.

The Precision Ag podcast heads off-shore for the second show in a row, this time from Alberta, Canada. Tim Neale is joined by Steve Larocque from Beyond Agronomy, as they talk about all things precision ag in Canada. They discuss the latest PA trends, including real time monitoring and focussing on the 'row' rather than the 'acre', and what the Aussies and Canadians can learn from each other. Also, Tim gets a little jealous of all Steve's Twitter followers! Enjoy!

It's another first for the Precision Ag Podcast in episode 4, with the show going international! This episode is co-hosted by Precision Ag agronomist Brendan Torpy from New Zealand, where he was speaking at LandWISE 2014. Learn all about precision ag across the ditch from NZ farmer, LandWISE board member and Nuffield Scholar Hugh Ritchie, and find out from Brendan what we can learn from NZ in terms of precision ag - enjoy!

Variable rate liming can save you big dollars on farm - find out just how much in episode three of the Precision Ag Podcast. Andrew Whitlock runs us through the VERIS pH detector technology, agronomist Brendan Torpy explains how the data collection works on-farm, and Culcairn (NSW) farmer Murray Scholz tells us the unexpected multiple benefits he's got from VR liming.

On episode 2 of the Precision Ag podcast, we meet a tour group from South Africa Tim is hosting in Australia. We'll find out where the South Africans are way ahead of Australia in precision ag (hint - it is to do with soil characterisation work), and what our guests, from the GWK Co-operative, think about what they've seen in Australia so far.

The Precision Ag podcast delivers the latest technical and product information from the world of precision agriculture, both in Australia and around the world. We'll be talking about current trial work and research being run by the Precision Ag team and passing on plenty of tips and tricks to make you more efficient and productive using great technology in your business. Being the very first show, we're going to learn a bit about Precision Ag the company, and its directors Tim Neale and Andrew Whitlock, and dive into some specifics on yield monitor calibration.