1. TRENDING INNOVATIONS
AND TECH
All the stuff we love and can’t afford…

2. Rowtrack with linkage 5Kl tank and
boom

4. Microwave Weed Control
Advantages – Kills weeds regardless of weather and conditions
Disadvantage- this one does 11cm a unit (inter row use) producing 2kw
each so power requirements would be in its current form, huge.

5. Camera Sprayers
 Weed-it
• One camera per meter controlling 5 jets of 20cm coverage each.
• Four sensitivity settings allowing you to target larger weeds and spray seedlings
with blanket boom
• Capable of PWM to maintain a uniform dose at a range of speeds
• Can be retrofitted although some companies make a dedicated boom i.e.Croplands.

6. Weed Seeker
• More compact and easier to retrofit
• Fewer nozzles per meter (15inch spacings) so potential for more spray
wastage
• Have to be calibrated more often to different soil types etc.
• Now owned by trimble.

7. Greenseeker
• Mounted on any equipment can detect in broad terms, the nitrogen
status of a crop
• In future may be used to vary the rate of a sprayer or spreader in real
time for top dressing applications so that your fert dollar goes where it
is required.

8. Robot Tractors
• Not far away are tractors that can perform tasks unmanned
• Your imagination is the limit, think of sending your tractor out to
microwave inter row weeds while applying N where its on board NIR
sensor tells it to.
• The only draw back is very fat farmers and very few of them.
• What could possibly go wrong?

9. Drones/UAV
 Seeing a crop from the air can reveal patterns that expose everything from
irrigation problems to soil variation and even pest and fungal infestations that
aren’t apparent at eye level.
 Second, airborne cameras can take multispectral images, capturing data from
the infrared as well as the visual spectrum, which can be combined to create
a view of the crop that highlights differences between healthy and distressed
plants in a way that can’t be seen with the naked eye

10.  As far as I can tell, they are being used mostly to make cool videos to
show off to your mates on facebook and twitter.

12. Cool Stuff
 Accufire non drip-drip torch
 Uses a pilot light so drip can be turned off remotely
and used at high speeds

13.  Wireless rain guage (Precision Agronomics Aus)
• Used where ever Next G
signal can be
acquired……
• Tipping bucket gauge
accurate to .2mm
• On board modem
updates data every half
hour
• Can access via app or
web program
• Data can be fed into
Yield Prophet crop
production model.
• From $440

14. Automatic Livestock Management
@sapientech
@racewell
@ShearwellAust

15. Implement Steering
@protrakker
@johndeere

17. Glow in the dark sheep.
Scientists from
Uruguay's Institute
of Animal
Reproduction
modified the gene
of nine sheep using
a green
fluorescent
protein found in
the Aequorea
Victoria jellyfish.

18. Wire-less fencing
CSIRO which has come
up with a virtual
fencing solution
applicable to cattle
and sheep farming.
Using a GPS system to
define fence
boundaries and a
specially designed
collar that alerts the
animal to the fact that
it has reached the
“fence”

19. GPS Stock Tracking
• Monitor Stock
grazing
• Alerts for dog
attack and theft
• Science and
pasture
management
trials

20. Over Complicated Seeders