SOURCE:  Olivia Calver, CROP PRODUCER, 6/6/22

Imagine being able to spray a paddock with the touch of a button, or being on holiday and knowing exactly how your cattle are performing. Automation on farm is bringing with it the promise of hands-free farming and it could help ease agriculture’s dire workforce shortages. Food Agility CRC chief scientist David Lamb said hands-free or autonomous farming could be part of the solution to the labour crisis, but it was about replacing tasks — not jobs.

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