Two PhD students received 'International Society of Precision Agriculture Outstanding Graduate Student Awards' at the 12th International Conference of Precision Agriculture at Sacramento USA. UNE-PARG students Amy Cosy and Moshiur Rahman received their awards an...
The Japanese Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications and a delegation of high-ranking trade officials visited the University of New England’s Armidale Campus and the Kirby SMART Farm facility on Monday, April 28. Minister Shindo expressed interest in...
Mick Schaefer, ex-PARG PhD student and now CSIRO-UNE research scientist, has returned for one week only to complete a combined sensor trial over pasture utilising Sick lidar technology, Holland Scientific Red/NIR and thermal sensing plus his own Optical Ranging and...
Following the successful 2013 Digital Rural Futures Conference hosted by UNE, the University of Southern Queensland is hosting the 2014 Digital Rural Futures Conference in Toowoomba, QLD on 25-27th July 2014. The 2014 Conference will provide opportunities to build...
Considerable technology and business opportunities exist in the red meat industry using spatially-enabled tools for managing pasture biomass. The missing ingredients are calibration and data management tools that can be easily used by producers. Mobile devices...
The PARG team has featured prominently on the latest episode of ABC's Landline program. The story covers the benefits of SMART (Sustainable Manageable Accessible Rural Technologies). The story features interviews with David Lamb, highlights from the Kirby...
PARG deployed Taggle Tracking ear tags across most of the UNE cow herd today. The tags give us a position every 15 minites. You can have a look at the position data coming in real-time here:...
Recent work conducted as part of the CRC for Spatial Information’s ‘Biomass Business’ project has confirmed that buried aluminium access tubes, typical of those used for neutron soil moisture probes are found to significantly alter the readings of EM38 soil surveys...
A national broadband communications network offers enormous opportunities for Australia’s agricultural sector. In turn, connected farms, and their supporting industries and communities will play a significant role in Australia’s digital economic future. UNE-PARG...
PARG PhD student, Michael Schaefer, joins UNE-PARG as our newest staff member. While putting the last-minute, finishing touches to his PhD thesis, Michael has joined Dr Alex Held’s group at CSIRO Canberra, working with the team on the national Terrestrial Ecosystem...