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Boorowa Agricultural Research Station

BARS is a state-of-the-art agricultural research facility near the town of Boorowa in southern New South Wales.

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[Image changes to show an aerial view looking down on a plough working a paddock and text appears: A research farm of the future]

 

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Sensors and software for cropping and pastures

Combining sensors and software for practical information on cropping and pastures.

Farming Forecaster

Co-developed with livestock producers, Farming Forecaster brings soil moisture, local weather, livestock performance and future pasture production information together into one place.

Graincast

We created the first smart phone app - Graincast™ - so Australian farmers could forecast grain yield at the touch of a button.

Smart breeding with phenomics

Phenomics tools offer non-destructive and high throughput methods to quantify crop performance in response to the environment.

AI-led crop forecasting global

PARTNER RELEASE - Recognised by Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, as one of its breakthrough innovations in artificial intelligence (AI) over the past five years, Graincast™ technology rapidly and remotely predicts hectares planted for over 20 plus crops, as well as forecasts yield for wheat, barley and canola – with more crop types to come.

Grazplan

CSIRO’s GrazPlan consists of three commercially available decision support tools to help farmers make decisions about their farm management, principally in grazing enterprises. Grazplan can also help farm advisors, industry organisations, agribusiness, banks and insurance companies.

Yield Prophet

Yield Prophet® decision support tool provides paddock-specific yield forecasts to optimise farmers’ investments.

Digitally enabled livestock

Improving productivity and profitability through internet connected livestock.

EweWatch

We're working to reduce difficult lambing, or dystocia, to help give lambs the best start in life.

Ceres Tag

We're working with agtech company, Ceres Tag, to develop next-generation ear tags to track and monitor livestock, unlocking invaluable data for the livestock industry.

eGrazor cattle measurement

The livestock sector is under mounting pressure to produce more from a smaller environmental footprint. Accurate measurement of pasture intake using the eGrazor technology could hold the key to more efficient cattle production.

Virtual fencing

CSIRO and Gallagher eShepherd (formerly Agersens) are turning autonomous animal control into a reality.

Input efficiencies

New and better ways to manage, understand and achieve input efficiencies.

Helping sugarcane growers

Our app, 1622™, uses sensors, advanced data analytics and state-of-the-art deep learning to help sugarcane farmers manage nitrogen fertiliser, without affecting profits, with flow-on benefits for the health of the Great Barrier Reef.

Precision agriculture

Our precision agriculture research is addressing key challenges in a range of farming systems, including viticulture, broadacre cropping, dairy and sugar farming. We're working with industry to develop and refine tools to assess, monitor and redress environmental and economic risks associated with agricultural practices.

Adaptive water management

A water dashboard developed as part of the Sense-T program in Tasmania delivers real-time data to Tasmanian farmers to support irrigation and environmental sustainability.

WaterWise

Using our new WaterWise technology, for the first time, growers can see in real time the water stress of their crop and can predict their crops' future water needs.

Soil

Soil health is vital to food and fibre production and maintaining a healthy environment. Our research spans methodologies to measure soil carbon, digital technologies to improve soil management and cost-effective ways of tracking soil condition.

New opportunities

New opportunities are opening up in agriculture and land management that weren’t dreamed of just a few years ago.

AgScore

AgScore™ is the first diagnostic tool that tests seasonal climate models for their relevance to agriculture.

Paddock boundaries

We’ve solved a farming challenge using artificial intelligence to identify the boundary of every individual paddock in Australia's grain growing region from space – around 1.7 million of them.

LOOC-C

Our LOOC-C ('look see’) app will help farmers and land managers discover possible carbon projects for their land and assess whether they can participate profitably in greenhouse gas mitigation and maximise the benefits to the land from carbon markets.

Augmented reality in aquaculture

We’re using popular gaming platforms, sensor technologies and next-generation data interaction techniques to help Australian prawn farmers increase efficiency and production while reducing risk.

New digital Ag research station to help future proof our farms

Drones, remote monitoring and advanced data analytics will provide scientists unprecedented accuracy in studying crops and farming systems at the new Boorowa Agriculture Research Station, opened by Australia’s national science agency CSIRO today.

ADOPT

ADOPT is designed to help users think about and analyse how an agricultural innovation will be adopted within a given population.

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