by sandy | Jul 14, 2023 | Smart Farm Audio Workshop
In this episode we chat with Jay Caroll at Civil Agricultural Design in Toowoomba who is an expert in drainage and surface water management. Jay explains why surface water management is important in CTF and he talks about some of the key components to consider when...
by sandy | Jul 6, 2023 | Smart Farm Audio Workshop
Josh Pearse works at Vantage WA and is an expert in precision agriculture and controlled traffic farming. Josh established the WACTFA Facebook group and is an ACTFA board member. In this episode, we talk to Josh Pearse about the finer details of matching machinery for...
by sandy | Jul 3, 2023 | Smart Farm Audio Workshop
Tim Rethus is a farmer from Horsham whose family business Rethus Broadacre has run a controlled traffic farming system for more than 20 years. Tim shares with us their machinery configuration, the benefits, and the challenges of CTF. Rethus Broadacre is one of the few...
by sandy | Jul 3, 2023 | Smart Farm Audio Workshop
In this episode, we chat with ACTFA board members Dr. Jeff Tullberg and Dr. Dio Antille about the benefits of controlled traffic farming from a research perspective. Jeff is an Australian agricultural engineer with broad experience in research, teaching, extension,...
by sandy | Jul 3, 2023 | Smart Farm Audio Workshop
Ben Beech Farms on a mixed sheep and cropping enterprise located in Frankland River down in the Great Southern of WA, northwest of Albany. Ben is a relative newcomer to CTF and in this episode he tells us about the transition to CTF and the challenges he faced. Ben...