The media is full of stories and adverts about drones revolutionising agriculture, but is that revolution actually taking place?

After flying drones over thousands of hectares Will has learnt there is a big divide between reality and market spin. Watch Will's presentation here.

Dr Hills shares the latest results from the Smarter Irrigation for Profit project, which is using sensor technology to collect data on water use, energy use and pasture production from five sites across Tasmania. Watch James' presentation here.

Alison McCarthy gives an insight into NCEA's projects on variable-rate irrigation for improved irrigation precision, machine vision sensing for mapping pasture variability across paddocks and fields, and automated site-specific irrigation mapping. Watch Alison's presentation here.

CropARM is a simple software tool that indicates possible outputs to critical management decisions. It is freely available online and for the first time contains Tasmanian specific-data sets. The tool can be used to compare how different crops, pastures and irrigation scheduling perform with local soils and conditions. Get the facts here.

At our State-Wide event Dr Bill Cotching and Mr John McPhee from TIA ran a session to provide growers with key tips to manage their soil and water under irrigation. Read some of their directions towards better soil management.

At our State-Wide event Dr Joseph Foley from the University of Southern Queensland and Mr David McLaren from TIA facilitated a workshop on the issues that irrigators are having with centre pivots. A common problem that came up from the discussions was pivot wheel rut issues. Read the suggested solutions here.

New research from TIA has found that using variable rate irrigation (VRI) could reduce water use by as much as 30 per cent, creating significant savings for farmers. Read more.

Researchers at TIA are developing a system that will help growers to better predict yield and increases in green pea production in the State. Read more.

In late March, the Water for Profit farmer groups combined for a workshop and farm tour at Richard Gardner’s “Annandale” property at Tunbridge. Read more.