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Why Central Banks Will Issue Digital Currency(medium.com)
5 points by fanquake 10y ago|0 comments
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by fanquake 11y ago
I'd be interested in hearing your arguments/use cases for drones over broad-acre properties, we've got(generally wheat) producers here with properties > 150'000 acres.
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by fanquake 11y ago
"can capture geospatial data on huge areas much more easily" What are you referring to as a "huge" area? All the work I'm seeing done with drones has been limited to ~700ha/day, if you've got perfect condi
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The state of Crop Modelling(medium.com)
13 points by fanquake 11y ago|0 comments
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Greenbot – Driverless agricultural robot(greenbot.nl)
3 points by fanquake 11y ago|0 comments
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Hectare.ag – A toolchain for precision agriculture(medium.com)
2 points by fanquake 11y ago|0 comments
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by fanquake 11y ago
"People should have the right to tinker with whatever they bought" Absolutely. We've had so many on farm productivity gains by modifying our machinery. We've added curtains to our spreader to better spread lime, extended
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FarmersEdge signs Australian deal(theland.com.au)
2 points by fanquake 11y ago|0 comments
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by fanquake 11y ago
Which provider do you propose we boycott, and which one do we use in the mean time? JohnDeere, CASE, New Holland etc dominate the industry, and no farmer is going to (let alone can afford to) stop using their current equipment, and spend mi
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Blue River Technology: Smart Machines(smartmachines.bluerivert.com)
2 points by fanquake 11y ago|0 comments
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AgWorld Apple Watch App(agworld.co)
1 points by fanquake 11y ago|0 comments
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by fanquake 11y ago
1) Autonomous farm machinery (more than just auto steer) becomes more commonplace. 1a) Release of the first non major brand (JD, Case etc) autonomous machine. 2) Drone see uptake in precision spraying applications. Although this will be on
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FarmLogs: N Monitoring and Varaible Rate Prescriptions(farmlogs.com)
2 points by fanquake 11y ago|0 comments
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Sprout - An Australian Ag Tech Incubator(nffdigital.org.au)
2 points by fanquake 11y ago|0 comments
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by fanquake 11y ago
Yes, a week is far to slow. We need to be able to spray multiple paddocks a day, and respond to weather events quickly. I.e you may to want to spray a few thousand hectares in anticipation, or right after a rainfall event.
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by fanquake 11y ago
So our current sprayer covers ~70ha/hr. That means we need a fleet of 18 drones to match it. That's 270k + the associated inferstructure costs. If there not fully autonomous you'll also need to pay someone $30-$40/hr to
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by fanquake 11y ago
Our current self propelled sprayer can cover roughly 70ha an hour. 36m boom travelling between 18 and 25km/hr. Water flow rate also plays a part in how much you can cover.
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by fanquake 11y ago
I can see the possible benefit for small vineyards & farms, but at 4ha/hr it would take more than a week to cover a single paddock (field) of ours. Although I'd assume the controlling software would have good route planning, p
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by fanquake 11y ago
There's a research project being done on the viability of hand picking radish plants out of wheat and lupin crops on broadacre farms here in Western Australia. Some farmers already do it, but once the results come out, I'm wonderi
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by fanquake 11y ago
What do you envision having it mounted on that will drive at the speeds mentioned in the article? It's not like you can throw It on the front of your regular dual wheel or track machine and operate efficiently at those speeds.
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by fanquake 11y ago
So you now you have to run your fleet of robot weeders over the field twice? That seems like a waste of time and $ when you could achieve the desired result in a single pass. every extra pass is also more soil compaction.
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by fanquake 11y ago
This is pretty awesome, and I'm looking forward to playing around with it this arvo. Although I somewhat disagree with "Resolution at these bands is 20m per pixel, a lot less than the sub-meter imaginery of Google Maps, but enough
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by fanquake 11y ago
Every year we take on workmen/students normally from outside Australia, who need to spend time actually working on a farm to finish their agricultural degrees or similar. It's always interesting to see their reactions after they f
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by fanquake 11y ago
Land may be cheaper, but probably not higher yielding. When your buying land your essentially buying rainfall. We could easily find and buy xx'000 acres of really cheap land, but it if only gets 200-300mm of rain every year, your not g
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by fanquake 11y ago
Predominately wheat. The rest is lupins and a small amount of canola (~750ha this year).
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by fanquake 11y ago
I'd like to get a more comprehensive look at FarmLogs, hopefully they'll be more available in Australia soon. Although until then, after just browsing through the interface, I'd like to make a few points. I should point out I
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by fanquake 11y ago
In Australia we've seen nothing but farm getting larger over the last 15-20 years. It's also interesting to compare the size of farm he's talking about to what we have here. On our property we have single fields 2x the size o
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Improve transaction privacy/fungibility in Bitcoin Core and the Bitcoin system(github.com)
1 points by fanquake 11y ago|0 comments
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by fanquake 11y ago
I'm somewhat curious as to why he's not collecting rainwater and using that rather than getting water trucked in; especially since he mentions it rains "a LOT". A quick Google suggests that area receives 200-300mm of rai
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FarmLogs Flow – A Better Way to Get Yield Maps(farmlogs.com)
1 points by fanquake 11y ago|0 comments

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