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...
Congratuations go out to PARG PhD student and long time member of the UNE Physics and Electronics department Dr Paul Coop (PhD). Paul's doctorate investigated possible techniques for determining if a monolayer (one molecule wide) existed on the surface of water in...
The opportunities for NBN to make a difference to rural and regional Australia was discussed at the recent National Economic Development Conference (“NEDC2011 The Digital Economy”) held in Adelaide. Precision Agriculture is set to play a big role in Australia’s...
The next big thing at PARG is the launch of the SMART Farm concept. To demonstrate the concept a new website has been developed at www.une.edu.au/smart . The UNE SMART Farm is to be implemented on the UNE rural property "Kirby" and will involve sensor networks and...
Professor Derek Bailey from New Mexico State University has spent a week discovering the depth of livestock research being performed at PARG. Derek is a world renowned researcher in the field of rangeland cattle monitoring earning a reputation as the best in the...
Jessica Roberts is letting grazing cattle tell her when they need to be moved to fresh pasture. In a major grazing experiment being undertaken from spring 2011 until autumn 2012, at the university’s “Clark’s Farm”, Jessica has attached GPS collars (UNE Tracker),...
David Lamb attended the Heritage Seeds field day at Howlong in the NSW Riverina region last week and demonstrated the future of precision livestock management to a mixed audience of 50 agronomists and leading growers. In addition to demonstrating the use of active...