Agriculture Technology
Sciences & Technology
Tackling a global crop pandemic - from the air
The spread of Xf bacteria is a huge threat to global agriculture, but research is enhancing our capacity to detect it in crops using airborne monitoring
Environment
Zap! And the weeds are gone
A University of Melbourne researcher has invented a device that uses microwaves to control weeds, reducing the need for herbicides
Environment
Using tech to save wine from bushfire smoke
Wine vintages can be ruined by smoke contamination from nearby bushfires, but new digital agriculture tools could help both large and small winemakers reduce the damage
Environment
Five ways technology is changing the wine we drink
From drones to machine learning, new technologies are helping winemakers improve both the quantity and quality of their wine
Environment
Small farms and China’s reliance on agricultural chemicals
Overuse of agricultural chemicals is taking a toll on health and the environment in China, and small farm size is a big part of the problem
Environment
Podcast
Give me a campus among the gum trees
We visit the University of Melbourne’s Dookie campus to find out how science is helping improve agricultural practice
Environment
Farming the future
From microwaves and robots, to ancient seeds and drones, a once experimental farm is still innovating after 140 years, but these days the agricultural challenges are global
Environment
Are these Australia’s happiest dairy cows?
Watch our video of the University of Melbourne’s robotic dairy, where the cows decide when they’re milked
Sciences & Technology
Under the Microscope
Meet the cow whisperer
Kenny Oluboyede’s serendipitous journey from rural Nigeria to the University of Melbourne’s robotic research dairy in Dookie has made him the University’s own cow whisperer
Environment
Digital vineyards
Building technology so farms will think for themselves