The Agtech Revolution Episode 11

Throughout Australia and around the globe there are a variety of IoT networks available for connectivity. Like most things, each come with their own pros and cons.

‘Smart farming’ is the term used to describe farming operations that incorporate modern day technologies in order to improve their overall operation. Technologies utilised on smart farms can include things such as sensors, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Augmented Reality (AR), Drones, and Farm Management Softwares (FMS), just to name a few. The goal of these technologies is to increase output in the most efficient and effective way possible.

I had the pleasure of chatting with a lot of different growers at the recent cotton conference and one of the interesting things for me was to hear how every cotton growing operation works just a bit differently than the next. Not coming from a (cotton) farming background myself, I find it fascinating to see how everyone tackles the same challenge (growing cotton) in their own way in order to optimise results. Something that almost every cotton grower mentioned to me however, is that they’re constantly working on pushing their profitability margins and thinking about where they can gain the ‘next 1%’ in their business.