To access key markets now, farmers have to prove they are reducing emissions, protecting biodiversity and saving energy and water, but finding the tech to report on all that has been difficult, until now.
Australia relies on access to overseas markets for agricultural exports, but farmers are being asked to prove they are producing food sustainably to maintain that access.Poor internet means robots and artificial intelligence that can track sustainability often do not workSome of the technology to do that has been failing, particularly when it comes to farm robots and artificial intelligence, but that is beginning to change.
Professor Lamb also pointed to companies such as Halo that have developed technology for farmers to monitor everything from irrigation systems, milk production and effluent to fuel. Professor Jacqueline McGlade was the chief scientist of the UN Environment Program and executive director of the European Environment Agency.
Professor McGlade said the reports were like an X-ray of the property and what had been done over time. The Sundown Pastoral Company is using solar power and batteries to produce two-thirds of the energy needed for its cotton gin.Sundown Pastoral Company has built its own solar plant and batteries and is now producing two-thirds of the power it needs to run its cotton gin near Moree in New South Wales.