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AUTOMATION AND MACHINERY
Australian grain producers can be autonomous machinery pace-setters
By Grain Producers Australia
The growing autonomous farm equipment market prompts an industry collaboration that aims to help Australian producers to get ahead of the game.
forecast in 2019 to add an addi- tional $170 billion to $600 bil- lion to Australia’s annual gross
in annual revenue, up from $12 billion in 2018. “Automation, in part enabled by robotics, was
Grain Producers Australia has made a submission to the Aus- tralian Government’s process to develop a National Robot- ics Strategy, advocating for a clear pathway to adoption for autonomous farm machinery, to deliver vital farm efficiency gains and broader community benefits. GPA’s submission highlights the proactive work that’s al- ready underway in partnership years to introduce a Code of Practice for the use of agricul- tural machinery in Australia. Led by expert consultant Dr Rohan Rainbow, the Code of Practice for Agricultural Mobile Field Machinery with Autono- mous Functions in Australia is a joint project with GPA, the Tractor and Machinery Associ- ation of Australia (TMA), and Society of Precision Agriculture Australia (SPAA). The strategy’s discussion paper says in 2021, Australian robotics companies were esti- mated to be worth $18 billion
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