Embracing Agriculture Digital Innovation Workshops: Longreach

Enhance your knowledge and skills and increase your understanding of the benefits of these technologies.

Workshop highlights

• Expert guidance: Led by Sonya Comiskey, a renowned leader in agricultural innovation.
• Convenient locations: Choose a venue that suits you best.
• Shorter days: Designed with shorter sessions to accommodate your work commitments.
• Additional guided access to our results from the AgValuate Tool, a farm specific, innovation readiness assessment tool that will help you to understand how technology can impact your farm.

The two-day workshop will cover the following topics

• Technology today
• Using data in agriculture
• Technology tomorrow

The workshops will include

• Current digital opportunities and farm management technology
• Cyber-security and how to identify common cyber-threats using interactive videos and case studies
• Different types of connectivity, including their advantages and disadvantages
• Internet of Things (IoT) systems and devices, including sensors and their functions
• The use of drones, their capabilities, benefits and limitations on farms, plus relevant legislative requirements
• Global positioning technology including GNSS, GPS, and GIS
• Methods of precision farming and control using satellite navigation and other technologies
• How to manage data effectively and securely
• Automation and technologies used to improve supply chain processes
• Technologies and innovations that are transforming the agricultural industry.

Specifically, it will include how to access support, additional courses and training, and examines some case studies relevant to the region.