Archive for May, 2009

Agriculture is forever looking for cost effective ways in which to imporve productivity and a new industry is shaping cost effective Agriculture. The shipping container industry is a strange one to be of any help to agriculture. However more and more of these steel containers are popping up around rural Asutralia. Recently I visited a Shipping container company and found that the humble steel boxes that call many farms home can be more than just a storage option or somthing to move stuff around the contryside. In fact there is apparently a multitude of options only limited by someones engeneering ability and imagination.

Vinyards have  been inovative with use of shipping containers, using them accross many different areas throught their properties. in the one inyard  a Container made to store hazerdous and explosive materials was in use in one area and in from a hortacultural perspective they were using non op[erational refrigerated containers to stor seedings and operational ones to store the produce with water tanks incorperated in the container. One particular hortucultural company was in part resposible for the design of movable and completely self suffiecient hydropnic units that can keep produce growing while beeing transported or stacked 8 containers high and use . These sort of cost effective ideas are leading the way as the need for more yeild per square metre of land increses.

The meat industry have been utilising these containers for a long time and they are becoming a more prominant part of conventional meat industry and also the non coventional meat industies like wild goat pig and kangaroo meat, due to the need to get the freshly slaughtered meat straight into refigiration out in the field. shipping containers in agriculture provide primary produces the ability to reduce cost and improve productivity and the quality of the product they supply if they can delop inovative ideas.