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We're rethinking water management in the Werribee Catchment 💧 As one of Victoria’s fastest-growing regions, the Werribee River catchment is expected to welcome an additional 1 million people over the next 30 years. This growth brings challenges in managing recycled water, stormwater, and adapting to a drying climate while ensuring a sustainable future for local food production. In partnership with Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action, Southern Rural Water, Greater Western Water and Traditional Owners, we are rethinking how water is used in the catchment to deliver reliable, fit-for-purpose recycled water for irrigation to ease pressure on the Werribee River. We are also looking at how we can re-distribute recovered water for Traditional Owners, the environment, and urban needs. We’re proud to collaborate on securing water for communities, the environment, and future generations. Stay tuned! Find out more: https://lnkd.in/gJwBFd3k #MelbourneWater #WaterManagement #WerribeeCatchment

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Observing 👀 three hundred cows in a pasture system is no small feat—let alone drafting them for AI or vet treatment! But for Graeme Lowndes at the Williams-Lowndes farm in Victoria, Australia, technology has revolutionized the process. "Having the collars doing the work for you, it's not as labor intensive as it used to be," he shares. 💡 Thanks to innovations like heat and health monitoring and automated sorting, farming has entered a new era of efficiency and freedom. Curious about how it all works? ➡️ Watch the full video on our website and see the future of farming in action! https://ow.ly/twBG50UtY37 #FarmTech #SmartFarming #DairyFarming #InnovationInAg #sorting #cattlehandling #drafting #dairy #improvinglifeonthefarm #australia #CowScout GEA Group

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Our own Kioumars Ghamkhar doing his thing at the AgriFutures evokeAG event in Brisbane, outlining the benefits offered by the Map and Zap® system. Map and Zap® uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to target weeds and zap them with a laser. It has been developed to help address the significant global issue of weeds in agriculture, and to provide a sustainable alternative to herbicides, in a range of agricultural settings. Map and Zap® is featuring in the evokeAG Startup Alley, as one of the 40 most innovative agrifood tech startups and scaleups chosen from around the world. Find out more about Map and Zap® at: https://lnkd.in/gE8VEz5Q #mapandzap #weeds #weedmanagement #WeedControl #artificialintelligence #laser #Research #agriculture #technology #innovation #startup #brisbane #australia #NewZealand AgriFutures growAG AgriFutures Australia

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Just Released! The 2024 Australian Agritech Sector Report is here! This year’s insights reveal the real state of play in Australia’s agritech landscape—from funding and workforce shifts to adoption challenges and the urgent need for a unified national approach. A huge thank you to our partners the NSW Government’s Farms of the Future Program and AgriFutures Australia for supporting this important work. Read the full report now: https://loom.ly/ZBS85FA #Agritech #AgInnovation #AustralianAgriculture #AgTechAU #FutureFarming #AusAgritech #EcosystemBuilding #FarmsoftheFuture #AgriFutures

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Simple, low-cost data tools for real farm impact? Yes please! Peta and Tim Neale are growing their global AgTech company – DataFarming (Australia) – from Toowoomba in Queensland. DataFarming’s software platform uses satellite imagery to help agronomists and growers make better, data-backed decisions in real time. 'Whether it’s for monitoring soil, crop growth, yield variability or weeds – you name it! People want a simple, low-cost way to use data to improve productivity for their business, and that’s what DataFarming does' – Tim. We can’t wait to showcase DataFarming and other local AgTech leaders at the Team Queensland stand at AgriFutures evokeAG 2025. Read more about Tim and Peta’s story, and how they’re shaping agriculture on a global scale 👉 https://brnw.ch/21wQEfh SwarmFarm Robotics | Quentin Feery-Lawrence | Alicia Dunbar

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Discover why resilient local agriculture is critical to national security. In this episode of Vegalogue, Andrew Henderson shares practical steps to safeguard Australia's food systems for a more secure, sustainable future. Listen wherever you find your podcasts or click here: https://lnkd.in/eHGWMqGW

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Rural fire management must be improved to ensure New Zealand's rural landowners are prepared for increasing fire risks from climate change. On that basis Forest Owners Association and Federated Farmers spoke to the Governance and Administration select committee on Wednesday to highlight some key areas of concern and make recommendations on next steps. That includes recommending an independant review of how the amalgamated fire service is working, and ensuring that the service is adequately funded both through public and private investment. For our part, large forestry companies invest around $11 million per year, not including insurance, in rural fire management. We value the partnerships that we have with Federated Farmers, Fire and Emergency NZ and Department of Conservation (DOC), and we look forward to continuing to work together to improve the rural fire service and meet the challenge. We appreciate the committee's time and attention for this important issue. You can watch the appearance here: https://lnkd.in/gb6_fDep Toby Williams Sean McBride Brendan Gould

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We are excited to announce that REA has entered into an agreement to acquire a minority stake in Agtuary, a leading platform specialising in rural property and environmental data and insights. Agtuary’s purpose-made tools, data and workflows support property and finance professionals to make informed data-driven decisions in rural property management and investment. Its suite of products includes land due diligence and environmental analysis reports, CMA, a mobile inspection app, mapping and portfolio management, and emissions accounting tools. REA Group Executive General Manager of PropTrack, Kris Matthews, said combining rural property data with land use, environmental and climate information into a single accessible platform is a unique and compelling proposition for Agtuary customers. “Agtuary is an exciting business that is already widely used by the valuation, finance and banking industries, and we see many opportunities for future innovation and growth,” Kris said. “We look forward to working closely with Agtuary to identify possible ways to collaborate, such as enabling new insights including rainfall charts and land use on realcommercial.com.au and realestate.com.au property listings.” You can read more in the media release here: https://lnkd.in/gxiehF5u

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🚨 Innovation alert! We're trialling new AI-powered devices to help protect our wildlife from feral cats – one of Australia’s most devastating invasive species. 📷 A new 'smart’ remote motion-sensor camera, fully customisable with AI image recognition software and thermal technology, developed by eVorta. 💡 The Humane Animal Net Device (HAND) by Timberscope is a soft net trap, which uses eVorta’s ‘smart camera’ to identify and trap feral cats and sends real-time alerts via an app directly to a phone. 🔊 The Cat Audio Deterrent device creates an invisible sound barrier to keep feral cats away from sensitive habitats, such as threatened species’ nesting sites. At French Island on Bunurong Country, where Eastern-barred Bandicoots and Long-nosed Potoroos are making a comeback, these smart traps could be game changers in the effort to eradicate feral cats entirely. This is conservation tech in action. Read more 👉 https://bit.ly/4hdG5tQ 📍French Island, Bunurong Country, VIC 📸 Grasslands Film This project received grant funding from the Australian Government’s Saving Native Species Program as part of the Threat Innovations Grants. Rod Brindley Hamesh Shah Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water #SavingNativeSpecies #ThreatenedSpecies #DCCEEW #AIForNature #WeLoveNature

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From cod logs to frog bogs. 🐸 In our changing environment, conservation managers need all the help they can get when it comes to helping species and ecosystems adapt. So we gathered more than 400 examples of new tactics from Australia and around the world and put them in one place. Our free new online tool, AdaptLog, is full of ideas to help Australian conservation groups find out about what might be worth trying on their patch. Read about some of the inspiring success stories, like how the West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority worked with Greening Australia to create tailor-made frog habitats called “frog bogs": https://lnkd.in/g4pTWVTR 📷 | Growling Grass Frog (Ranoidea raniformis) by dancg via iNaturalist / Atlas of Living Australia

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When software constraints slow scale, it's time to rethink the platform. Ballance Agri-Nutrients Ltd, one of New Zealand’s largest agricultural co-operatives, needed a faster, more flexible way to apply machine learning to fertiliser recommendations, without being held back by costly geospatial licensing. To enable smarter, location-aware modelling, our machine learning and cloud specialists migrated the company’s on-premise modelling platform to AWS and open-source geospatial software. Advanced region-specific machine learning models were introduced to improve precision and reduce manual intervention. The new solution delivered: 🌱 Faster processing and reduced costs 🌱 Automated model updates without manual overhead 🌱 Flexibility to deliver the right nutrients across New Zealand’s diverse farming conditions The result is a high-performance, secure and scalable cloud-native platform, built to support Ballance’s approach to precision agriculture. 🔗 Read the case study: https://lnkd.in/gPRVS_jf #AWS #PrecisionAg #CloudEngineering #OpenSource #MachineLearning #NZTech #MLOps

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