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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...
Low-Pressure Tyres for CTF?
We see increasing publicity about the crop yield and performance benefits of IF and VF tyres – where IF and VF denote ‘Increased Flexion’ and ‘Very High Flexion’, respectively. These tyres have more flexible sidewalls, which allow lower pressures and greater contact...
Soil Health – is driving over earthworms good for them?
IMAGE: Earthworms in CTF, WA. (Credit: Bindi Isbister) It is generally accepted that CTF should be beneficial for that important but ill-defined property – soil health – for which earthworms are often used as an indicator. The scientific literature on this topic has...
Optimising agricultural tyre management in controlled traffic farming
IMAGE: A Goldacres SP sprayer in the western districts of Victoria fitted with CTIS that allows pressure to be reduced when spraying in the field and increased for road transport, all within a few minutes and at the touch of a button in the cab. One crucial aspect of...
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