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Australia must forge its own agtech techniques, not rely on US

We need data on OUR climate, soils, risk and culture to optimise on-farm and value chain decisions – using northern hemisphere data won’t work. (19 Mar 2020)

Publications Thursday: Needles in the crop mapping haystack

We've developed methods for improving the mapping accuracy of rare crops in Australia. (13 Feb 2020)

Publications Thursday: vertical farms bear fruit

Cathryn O’Sullivan and colleagues make 4 important points about how to expand urban farming beyond growing leafy vegetables (30 Jan 2020)

1622-WQ app launched: water quality monitoring in the Great Barrier Reef hinterland

In a world first, sugarcane farmers in far north Queensland have a new app that will help them manage fertiliser use and so reduce nitrogen runoff onto the Great Barrier Reef. (21 Jan 2020)

Publications Wednesday: social science & digital agriculture

Dr Emma Jakku, leader of Digiscape's Social Dimensions project, has joined with Laurens Klerkx of Wageningen University and Pierre Labarthe of INRA to edit a special issue of NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences exploring social and institutional responses to digital agriculture (21 Jan 2020)

Publications Wednesday: even better grain yield forecasts

A new publication shows that using semi-empirical crop stress indices can measurably improve the accuracy of the C-Crop grain yield forecasting model (15 Jan 2020)

Digiscape’s carbon farming app launches

We launched an app to help farmers get involved in emissions reductions schemes. (23 Dec 2019)

Countdown to launch: a carbon farming app for Australian landholders

We've been talking with farmers about LOOC-C, our app that shows carbon farming options in the Emissions Reduction Fund. (9 December 2019)

‘Moves’ and ‘snazz’: how to write a great scientific paper

Digiscape Postdocs and a Masters student went on a writing journey with Dr Robert Brown to learn about writing great scientific papers. (28 Oct 2019)

Augmented reality and Digiscape apps: D61+Live, 2-3 October

We showed off Digiscape’s apps and our augmented reality system for boosting real-time on-farm decision making in Sydney this week at D61+Live. (3 Oct 2019)

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