Precision agriculture Research-Lecturer  Dr Mark Trotter has received a prestigious Science and Innovation Award for Young People in Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. The award recognises “innovative scientific projects that will contribute to the ongoing...

In what is a world first, the University of New England’s Precision Agriculture Research Group has completed testing the active optical sensor ‘Raptor’ over a field of sugar cane. Attached underneath a low-flying aircraft, the Raptor enables rapid scanning of crop...

Land management includes both public and private lands, and PA has a major role to play in issues of soil health and land-use from the perspective of biomass and carbon.  It is not surprising that our state land management agencies are taking more interest in what...

PA researchers Andrew Robson (Qld DEEDI), Rob Bramley (CSIRO) and David Lamb (UNE-PARG) recently kicked off a new project “Remote sensing-based precision agriculture tools for the sugar industry”. Funded by the Sugar Research and Development Corporation (SRDC) to...