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Set up the digital farm ready for harvest – with New Holland – 24th September 2024
About the webinar Improving on-farm operational efficiency is the focus of the GRDC funded project ‘On-farm Operations Optimisation’ which is being jointly conducted by Verge Ag and ACTFA. Over the past few months the project team has engaged 16 growers from around...
Straw Spreader boosts header efficiency
The following article featured in the Autumn 2024 edition of the SEPWA newsletter and is shared here with the permission of South East Premium Wheatgrowers Association. Images courtesy MR & HL Wandel. A purpose-built machine that chops and spreads straw evenly...
Reflections on a CTF Journey: Michael Hart
Michael Hart recently tweeted a nice photograph of a light green tractor with its rear axle pulled down for bearing replacement with the tongue-in-cheek comment “I don’t know how much money I’ve made from CTF, but I know how much I’ve spent” – obviously on equipment...
RTK accuracy guidance from satellite correction
Acknowledgement: Max Cusack, Precision Ag Marketing Manager, John Deere Limited - Australia and New Zealand Image: John Deere Limited - Australia and New Zealand Fixed on or off-farm base stations, mobile tripod mounted base stations, and to a lesser extent, CORS...
Simulating efficiency of section control for different size bars using Verge Technologies software
Author: Alice Butler, Farmanco Verge technology provides a new way of looking at the effect of changes such as machinery selection, route planning etc. on the efficiency of farming operations. Using the Verge platform to model the impact of different seeder widths and...
Combining wheel track renovation with other operations
Image: Stewart Wallace, Esperance indicating where he mounts the stubble cruncher roller, that wasn’t attached at the field day as this was a hire machine. Author: Bindi Isbister, DPIRD, ACTFA Chair Wheel tracks in controlled traffic farming systems need regular...
Soil tillage and traffic systems research at Harper Adams University, 13 years on
Authors: Ana Prada Barrio and Dr Paula Misiewicz The Traffic and Tillage project is a unique long-term field experiment at Harper Adams University (HA), United Kingdom (UK). It started in 2011 and studies the effects of interactions between different traffic...
Award of Merit for Dr Tim Chamen, CTF Europe
IMAGE: Dr Tim Chamen (left) receiving his EurAgEng Award of Merit – Innovation into Practice award from Dr. Boris Kettelhoit (CLAAS) industry representative on the EurAgEng Executive committee. (Photo – Andreas Hermann) In November 2023, at LAND.TECHNIK-AgEng...
SA GRDC study tour – Increasing the longevity of soil amelioration benefits with CTF and no-till in South Australia by sharing experience grower to grower
IMAGE: The Northern Sustainable Soils Group discussing soil amelioration, controlled traffic and farming systems with Trevor Symes, Clint Della Bosca and Luke Clarke. In the last week of August 2023, ACTFA led a GRDC-funded grower and advisor study tour around South...
On-Farm Operation Optimisation
IMAGE: Bindi, ACTFA Chair, and Godard, Verge Ag Operations Manager, discussing opportunities for on farm operation optimisation that will be explored in a new GRDC funded project. A new generation of farm operation optimisation tools is emerging to empower growers to...
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