Farm wide connectivity is essential to advancing farming operations through the use of digital agriculture. This project is building antenna arrays that will enable tractors and other farming equipment to become long-range roving Wi-Fi devices.
Livestock traceability is becoming an increasingly valuable asset with many auction houses providing a price premium for cattle with complete data records. This project aims to transform the red meat supply chain by developing a self-sustaining data sharing platform called TRAKKA to resolve the challenge of data control, compatibility and sharing.
Haystack fires occur without little warning and this initiative aims to identify the data that is most critical to understand haystack degradation, and how best to transmit that data using satellite technologies.
Measuring soil carbon, and determining how much carbon should be retained, is a challenge which this project aims to address through development of data driven models that use biomass and vegetation measured via satellite imagery, as proxies for soil carbon.
Uneven nitrogen distribution can significantly reduce crop yields. To quantify this impact, a commercial-scale trial is underway between the Global Digital Farm (GDF), Hutcheon and Pearce, and Incitec Pivot to examine the effects of uneven nitrogen distribution on crop yield: ‘Quantifying Yield Loss from Uneven Nitrogen Application’.
Explore the various projects taking place across Charles Sturt's 1600 hectare commercial farm