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RRDfP 'Forewarned is Forearmed' Final Monitoring and Evaluation.

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

The output of this project will be a final monitoring and evaluation report for the project Forewarned is Forearmed (FWFA), equipping farmers and agricultural value chains to proactively manage the impacts of extreme climate events. The project under evaluation ran from mid-2017 to end 2022 and will provide, amongst other...

20 Jul 2022 - 16 Jun 2023

New South Wales, Australia

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Summary and Quadrant Analysis: Data stocktake, analysis and implementation roadmap

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

Following the completion of the Data Stocktake, Analysis and Implementation Roadmap LC.RDC.0002 on 16 June 2022, this project provides further analysis and investigation in order to build capability around data collection, aggregation, analysis, sharing and use of data by: * Identifying data that is the most valuable, relevant, and needed...

1 Oct 2022 - 30 Jun 2023

New South Wales, Australia

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Development & implementation of NB2 feedbase data templates, skills training, analysis and reporting.

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

The feedbase sub-project of Northern Beef 2 (NB2) is designed to develop skills in assessing long-term carrying capacities and pasture based management decisions that complement the stock flow and financial data sets collected by participating producers. This activity appoints RangeIQ to lead producer activities associated with feedbase assessment and management.

10 May 2022 - 16 Sep 2025

New South Wales, Australia

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Implantable RFID for cattle - Commercial Supply Chain trials

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

Implantable RFID devices have the potential to be a reliable identifier for traceability. Based on the positive results that come out of the limited field trials completed, it was recommended that further supply chain trials were undertaken to expand on this work to address the remaining adoption barriers for an...

1 Nov 2022 - 21 Jan 2025

New South Wales, Australia

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Farm-wide Wi-fi

Food Agility Cooperative Research Centre (Food Agility CRC)

This project will develop antenna arrays that can be fitted to mobile and stationary farming equipment to provide long-range communication. Tractors and trucks will become roving WiFi devices with a range of up to five kilometres, providing farm-wide coverage. The technology will be a combination of adapted off-the-shelf and bespoke...

3 Jan 2022 - 31 Mar 2023

New South Wales, Australia

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Rangelands Carbon

Food Agility Cooperative Research Centre (Food Agility CRC)

The project team is developing models and tools to accurately and affordably estimate soil and vegetation carbon in Australian rangelands, unlocking 75% of the country’s landmass to reach its carbon sequestration potential.

1 Feb 2022 - 31 Mar 2025

New South Wales, Australia

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Grazing Intelligence

Food Agility Cooperative Research Centre (Food Agility CRC)

This project aims to help producers make better grazing decisions. Food Agility, together with the NSW Department of Primary Industries and agtech company Pasture.io, will deliver machine learning models that remotely predicts animal performance and daily pasture availability. These ‘Grazing Intelligence’ models will improve the confidence of producers in making...

1 Jul 2021 - 30 Jun 2023

New South Wales, Australia

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Haystack Fire Prevention

Food Agility Cooperative Research Centre (Food Agility CRC)

The project team will review what pieces of data are most essential to understanding haystack degradation, as a precursor to fires, and how to process that data so that it can be transmitted through the existing limitations of satellite technologies. This will allow for monitoring on properties that have low...

3 Jan 2022 - 31 May 2023

New South Wales, Australia

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Protecting Data in Digital Agriculture

Food Agility Cooperative Research Centre (Food Agility CRC)

This project aims to overcome broad global challenges of data privacy and security in three key areas of the data value chain: Sensing, Data Modelling, and Exchange in data marketplaces.

1 Apr 2022 - 31 Mar 2025

New South Wales, Australia

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Water Leak Detection

Food Agility Cooperative Research Centre (Food Agility CRC)

Reducing the amount of time it takes to discover a water leak through advanced modelling.

3 Jan 2022 - 30 Jun 2023

New South Wales, Australia