Fantastic crop art and a fabulous field day

The University of Sydney, Outlook Ag and Australian Grain Technologies joined forces to host a field day on 3 September at the IA Watson Grains Research Centre and ‘Llara’ farm.

Todd Richards, Lucinda Richards and Emma Pavey.

This year’s theme was Innovations at Scale, with a good turnout of growers, agronomists, researchers, scientists and agricultural professionals.

Dean Hancock, Amy Hamman, Mitch Cuell, Ant Mitchell, Angus Boileau and Andrew Dayas. RIGHT: Readers might have also seen the fantastic photo captured by Kieran Shephard. The eye-catching crop art, spanning six hectares, was created using new agricultural technology to create the logos of the three field day organisers – AGT, Outlook Ag and The University of Sydney – in a wheat paddock.

The event kicked off with a presentation by Nigel Hart from the Grains Research and Development Corporation, followed by AGT varietal releases.

Len Martin.

Attendees then headed into the paddock for field talks from representatives of The University of Sydney and Outlook Ag.

Readers might have also seen the fantastic photo captured by Kieran Shephard. The eye-catching crop art, spanning six hectares, was created using new agricultural technology to create the logos of the three field day organisers – AGT, Outlook Ag and The University of Sydney – in a wheat paddock.

Following the discussions, the crowd enjoyed the local trade show before relaxing with a refreshment in the paddock to finish off a great day.

Jono Baird, Tim Brooker and Lucas Hatton.

Readers might have also seen the fantastic photo captured by Kieran Shephard, featured with this article.

The eye-catching crop art, spanning six hectares, was created using new agricultural technology to create the logos of the three field day organisers – AGT, Outlook Ag and The University of Sydney – in a wheat paddock.

The purpose was to demonstrate just how precise agricultural management is becoming.

The system, which is set to be commercially released next year, combines camera technology, machine learning and AI to differentiate crops from weeds and spray only the weeds – or, in this instance, spray out the logos.

Damien Scanlan and Meiqin Lu.

Outlook Ag created a custom prescription spray map and the Sydney Uni team got to work spraying out the logos into the crop of wheat.

Luke Ivers, Lindsay O’Brien and Tim Weaver.

Readers might remember the University of Sydney’s Narrabri Campus previously showcased an impressive crop art display during the Olympic Games, when the Olympic rings appeared in fields of green and gold.