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Food, Fibre & Foresty Facts (2017)

The 2017 Food, Fibre & Forestry Facts is the authoritative ready reckoner to the latest facts and stats you need to know about Australian agriculture. Source: National Farmers Federation

Share Of Agricultural Production Exported 2014-2017 Infographic

Source: Department of Agriculture and Water Resources

Agricultural Commodities Infographic (2018)

Source: Department of Agriculture and Water Resources (Sept 2018)

Agriculture 4.0: The Future Of Farming Technology

Industry challenges, disruption through new technologies and the role of the government in these changes

Community Engagement And Development

Leading Practice Sustainable Development Program for the Mining Industry Source: DFAT

Rehabilitation And Closure Planning Throughout The Mine Life (2018)

The industry’s approach to mined land rehabilitation Source: Minerals Council of Australia

Mine Rehabilitation In The Australian Minerals Industry (2016)

The ability to successfully rehabilitate mined areas is fundamental to the industry’s social licence to operate.

Accelerating Precision Agriculture To Decision Agriculture

Analysis of the economic benefit and strategies for delivery of digital agriculture in Australia. Source: Australian Farm Institute

Improving Mine Rehabilitation In NSW

Overview of how mine rehabilitation is currently regulated in NSW. Source: NSW Government

Powering Growth: Realising The Potential Of Agtech For Australia

This report highlights some important initiatives and leading companies and organisations from around the country doing world-class work to build the AgTech sector in Australia Source: KPMG

Our Soils Guidebook: History, Experience And Science

Overview of common tools and information resources used to define and describe variability. Source: GRDC

Utilising Spatial Data For Within-Paddock Soil And Crop Management

Tips on implementing Management Zones. Source: GRDC

Farm Management Apps – DecipherAg

This report looks at the prevalence of weak value propositions in the current agtech landscape and identifies opportunities for stakeholders to enable and accelerate the development of agtech solutions worth adopting. Source: AgriFutures

Emerging Technologies In Agriculture: Consumer Perceptions Around Emerging Agtech

This report examines ten technologies that hold potential for benefits in agriculture within Australia. Source: AgriFutures

Emerging Technologies In Agriculture: Regulatory & Other Challenges

This report focuses on the barriers, limitations and opportunities posed by new technologies, and the approaches that may help to mitigate these and support the uptake of technological innovations in agriculture. Source: AgriFutures

Agricultural Innovation – A National Approach To Grow Australia’s Future

This report explores the vision for agricultural innovation, including the level of ambition the industry is seeking, how it would fit into a global innovation landscape and the future the industry would like to create. Source: EY

Make Variable Rate Applications Pay

Variable-rate application (VRA) of some inputs delivers cost benefits and improved yields. Before adopting VRA, growers can optimise their chances of better returns by running simple on-farm trials.

Hart Trial Results 2018

Hart Trial Results 2018 Source: Hart

Conversations With Farmers: Peter Kuhlmann

Eyre Peninsula farmer Peter Kuhlmann was quick to recognise the improvements in efficiency precision agriculture tools gave him when he first adopted guidance and autosteer almost two decades ago. Source: SPAA

Tracking The Trends 2019: The Top 10 Issues Transforming The Future Of Mining

Disruption and volatility have become the new constant for the mining sector grappling with issues like rising stakeholder demands, talent shortages, tarnished reputation, an evolving threat landscape, and dwindling access to key resources such as energy and water. What leading strategies can miners deploy to succeed in this dynamic business environment? Source: Deloitte

From Here To Where? The Mining Matrix

Mining is the Australian heritage – the backbone of the Australian and West Australian economic and social landscape, and yet for the past decade the image of mining has been in decline. Source: Deloitte

The Digital Revolution: Mining Starts To Reinvent The Future

Digital is now impacting the mining industry, technology has advanced such that the barriers of high cost of entry, and a very physical value chain are no longer protection against large scale disruption. Source: Deloitte

Agricultural Commodities Report (March 2019)

Agricultural commodities report for March, 2019. Source: Department of Agriculture and Water Resources

Is The Southern Mallee Too Uniform For Variable Rate?

There is a common perception that many paddocks in the southern Mallee are too ‘uniform’ to justify VRA. However, the challenges involved in identifying paddock zones and separating variability in nutrient response from other spatial characteristics suggest room for uncertainty in this assumption, and the value in demonstrating more focused methods of assessing paddock variability. Source: BCG

Variable Rate Technology: Maximising Returns For WA Grain Producers

A series of Case Studies initiated by the Esperance and Geraldton Regional Cropping Solutions Network. Source: GRDC

Giving Farmers The Power To Decipher Crop Nutrition

Source: The Australian Farmer

Calculating Return On Investment For On Farm Trials

This booklet uses working examples of how PA tools have enabled growers to measure the economic returns of treatments to help them with whole farm decisions. Source: GRDC

Mine Rehabilitation – Leading Practice Sustainable Development Program For The Mining Industry

This handbook addresses mine rehabilitation, one of the themes in the Leading Practice Sustainable Development Program. The program aims to identify key issues affecting sustainable development in the mining industry and provide information and case studies that illustrate a more sustainable basis for the industry. Source: Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources