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Bringing Ag Tech to Life

David Lamb

Acknowledgments:

Linc Urquhart (SMART Farms Education Officer)

Dr Rachelle Hergenhan (SMART Farms Industry Liaison Officer)

Sally Strelitz (HSC Booster Coordinator)

Susanna Greig (UNE GRASS)

Prof Sue Gregory (SMART Farm Learning Hub/HARVEST)

Dr Kirsti Abbott (UNE Discovery)

Prof Lewis Kahn (Director UNE SMART Farms)

Dr Lou Conway (Smart Regions Incubator)

Chris Celovic (New England Ag-Tech Cluster)

All staff (UNE PARG)

www.une.edu.au/smartfarms

@DaveLambPrecAgprecision.agriculture

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Data meets dirt…

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There is a flow of key ingredients…

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Agriculture is a melting pot

Physics

Agronomy

Computational ScienceChemistry

Statistics

Animal and Plant Biology

Engineering

Mathematics

Soil Science

Animal Science

Environmental Science

Intelligent Systems

Robotics and autonomous systems

STEAM in action!!

Education

Business

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Agriculture is a melting pot

Physics

Agronomy

Computational ScienceChemistry

Statistics

Animal and Plant Biology

Engineering

Mathematics

Soil Science

Animal Science

Environmental Science

Intelligent Systems

Robotics and autonomous systems

STEAM in action!!

Education

Business

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Inculcation/immersion is key…

Live as if you are going to die tomorrow

Learn as if you are going to live foreverMahatma Gandhi

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Capable, Competent, Confident = Agile

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Buy into issues big

and small…

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UNE SMART Farms

Kirby/Newholme/Laureldale (2,900 ha)

Tullimba (1,000 head feedlot, 740 ha, 1,000 Ml)

4 Campus properties

Large/small animal enclosures, poultry sheds,

grazing/pasture trials, crop trials

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Education by stages…

Early Stage 1

(Kindergarten)

Stage 1

(Year 1 & 2)

Stage 2

(Year 3 & 4)

Stage 3

(Year 5 & 6)

Stage 4

(Year 7 & 8)

Stage 5

(Year 9 & 10)

Stage 6

(Year 11 & 12)

(Primary-Secondary)

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Education by stages…

Early Stage 1

(Kindergarten)

Stage 1

(Year 1 & 2)

Stage 2

(Year 3 & 4)

Stage 3

(Year 5 & 6)

Stage 4

(Year 7 & 8)

Stage 5

(Year 9 & 10)

Stage 6

(Year 11 & 12)

HSC

Booster

(Primary-Secondary)

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Education by stages…

Year T1 Year T2 Year T3Year T4

(Hons/Grad Cert)

HDR

M, PhD

BRurSci, BAg, BAg/BBus, BAgribus, BAg&ResEco, BLaw, BSc

(Tertiary)

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Training the trainers- TPD

Teacher PD 2016: Pasture biomass assessment tools

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Teacher PD 2014: Satellite remote sensing, Dookie Vic.

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Industry placement scholarships

GRASS IPS 2015

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Students applying

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Susanna Greig, 2018

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Formal learning packages- HSC

Stage 6- Farming for the 21st Century

(pasture, drone, precision livestock and EM38 modules)

20 school visits,

600 students in past 10 months

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Sharing resources

HARVESTHelping Agriculture Remain Vital through Engineering Science and Technology

A NSF/USDA Research Coordination Network

U.S.A- Virginia Tech, Virginia State U., Arizona State U. Iowa State U., Wake

Forest School of Medicine, North Carolina, Purdue U., Naval Postgraduate

School, Monterey, CA.

Canada-University of Saskatchewan

Australia- University of New England, University of Sunshine Coast

Ireland- University College Dublin

https://smartfarmhub.education/

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Outreach

Demonstrating the role of

SMART in business and

lifestyle of farming

n~5,000 since 2015

Value proposition for Start-

ups

A community of Founders

Start-up Program

Access to space and Mentors

Expert in Residence

Events

Data Sharing Platform = banks.community

Pathways to accelerator programs

Agtech Cluster

Scott Hamey, Founder of New England Avionics

Engaging our community- Growing

the innovation culture

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Growing the community of young

entrepreneurs

Henry Mollett (Bachelor of Agribusiness); Steph Cox (Bachelor of Ag/Business) and Miles Archibald

(Bachelor of Business) @ SSE Navigator Program

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Students and their Start-ups

Angus Murray “Maxicut’ also studying

Bachelor of Agricultural and Resource Economics

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Getting them all

together

Yr 10 student

2nd year uni

student

PhD student

Successful start-up

Ag-tech provider

Farmer

Entrepreneur

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Opening up

Planning the question

Hacking…The pitch!!

…and hacking away…

Agmentation Hackathon (2017)

Producers pose the problem

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hack

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Producers assess the

solutions

Putting them all together

Celebrate-o’clock!!

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Agmentation 2018

The Mission

Weighing-in – Measuring

Productivity in Non-Traditional

WaysSeeking new innovations which effectively

‘game-change’ the measuring of productivity of

livestock (anything live!)

Register @

http://smartri.com.au/connect/agmentation/

‘Shotgun start’ @ the 2017 Agmentation Hackathon

27-28th July sprint’n’pitch

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Bringing Ag Tech to Life = immersion from day #1

Primary Secondary Tertiary

VET

Producers/Supply Chain/Consumers

Innovators/Startups

Community

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Community

awareness…

~150k (30k GF alone!)

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Build it and they will come….☺

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They do get it…

…do we get them?

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Bringing Ag Tech to Life = immersion from day #1

We always seem to get a good start, but…