The next generation of agriculture professionals now has access to a cutting-edge online platform – the Charles Sturt Global Digital Farm Dashboard – to learn about real-world, on farm scenarios from the comfort of their classrooms.
Read more about this story at The Australian and Charles Sturt University
The Global Digital Farm (GDF), a partnership between Charles Sturt University (CSU) and Food Agility Cooperative Research Centre, is set on a 2,000Ha commercial farm located in Wagga Wagga. This ‘landscape laboratory’ employs and tests the latest digital agricultural technologies (agtech) to enable world leading research into a more sustainable farming future.
Gathering data from various digital technologies forms the foundation of the GDF, but data alone isn’t enough: the real value comes from integrating all the information into a unified dashboard. Agtech data specialists, Pairtree Intelligence, were engaged to build the dashboard that integrates the many different data sets generated by all the different digital technologies at GDF.
Originally developed for use by researchers, industry and primary producers, the GDF Dashboard is now available for Agriculture and Primary Industries teachers and their students to use in the classroom.
Charles Sturt’s Head of Digital and Sustainable Agriculture Mr Jonathan Medway said the dashboard is a highly intuitive tool that integrates a range of information sources into a unified dashboard that empowers users to make smarter decision with real-time insights.
“It allows students to apply live data, delivered from an actual commercial livestock operation to the lessons and theories taught in the classroom,” said Mr Medway.
“They can monitor and explore crop and livestock performance, weather and soil metrics, machinery and input usage, sustainability and environmental indicators.”
For further info, or to sign up to this incredible free resource, visit: www.csu.edu.au/global-digital-farm
Photo supplied by CSU: Barker College Head of Agriculture Scott Graham and students use GDF dashboard
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