Innovation feeds the nation
Big ideas to lead annual agriculture tech forum
BUDDING innovators with big ideas will be front and centre at the annual Food Leaders Australia 400M Ag and Food Innovation Forum, held in Toowoomba’s Armitage Centre on November 21.
One of the innovators presenting at the forum will be Tim Neale, CEO of DataFarming.
Mr Neale is driving the future of agriculture with his technology building custom solutions for a wide range of agricultural problems.
The recent winner of the 2018 Rural Consultant of the Year at the Australian Farmer of the Year Awards, Mr Neale has developed a free online precision agriculture platform to help farmers and agronomists understand the variability in their crop or pasture production using real-time satellite imagery.
The technology is based on years of experience helping farmers and agronomists enter the digital agriculture space.
“The key to the success of the platform is how simple and accessible it is for farmers to use. It allows them to look at their fields every five days from a satellite helping decision making easier and quicker,” Mr Neale said.
And the results are speaking for themselves.
“We have had incredible uptake of our platform with over 6000 farms adopting this technology, 40,000 paddocks and 3.6 million hectares of processed data down to a field level.
“Even though it has been a hard year and a dry season adoption rates have far exceeded expectations with over double the numbers of farms implementing this technology than expected and farmers seeing real benefits.”
The 400M Ag and Food Innovation Forum will celebrate the adoption of agricultural technology and will highlight market-leading innovation to the region and Australia.
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