Virtual fencing product approved for use in Victoria

Posted 2026-02-19 04:58:44 by: ONFARM Support

Virtual fencing is now available in Victoria with the State Government approving one product for commercial ...

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AI isn’t likely to wipe out all farming jobs – but it is changing who bears the risks

Posted 2026-02-11 06:05:44 by: ONFARM Support

The global economy is bracing for major job disruption as artificial intelligence (AI) advances and spreads across industries. Experts have been warning about this shift for years, and fiercely debating whether the benefits of an AI revolution will outweigh the cost of mass displacement in the ...

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SA approves virtual fencing bringing it in line with other states

Posted 2025-12-17 05:55:21 by: ONFARM Support

South Australian livestock producers will soon have access to virtual fencing, with the technology legalised this ...

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AI is coming for agriculture, but farmers aren’t convinced

Posted 2025-07-02 06:23:47 by: ONFARM Support

What do the people working the land make of articificial intelligence? We interviewed dozens of Australian farmers about AI and digital technology, and found they had a sophisticated understanding of their own needs and how technology might help – as well as a wariness of tech companies’ utopian ...

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Victoria set to follow other States by legalising virtual fencing

Posted 2025-05-22 06:19:47 by: ONFARM Support

Victoria is set to follow most other Australian states in legalising the use of virtual fencing technology for managing ...

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SA producers still blocked from proven technology as NSW green lights virtual fencing

Posted 2025-05-02 03:27:38 by: ONFARM Support

Livestock SA is calling on the South Australian Government to urgently reform outdated regulations that continue to block livestock producers from using virtual fencing, as New South Wales becomes the latest state to legalise the ...

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AgTech success story as Optiweigh delivers 1000th in-paddock weighing unit

Posted 2025-01-30 05:26:33 by: ONFARM Support

One of Australia’s agtech success stories has crossed a significant milestone, with the delivery of the 1000th Optiweigh unit to one of the company’s early ...

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Scholarship to help keep Luke on the land after life-altering car crash

Posted 2025-01-29 06:03:30 by: ONFARM Support

A North Queensland cattleman who became a quadraplegic after a car crash has received a bursary to become a drone pilot, to assist with work on his family's cattle ...

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Green ammonia – Are we overlooking the opportunity for the livestock sector?

Posted 2024-12-19 22:55:52 by: ONFARM Support

What if protein was no longer a limiting factor in our northern beef systems? Qld beef industry RD&E professional Dr Lindsey Perry looks at how small-scale, on-farm 'green' ammonia technologies could provide localised systems to potentially fill the protein gap in ...

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New tech to measure eating quality in live animals

Posted 2024-11-26 05:41:42 by: ONFARM Support

It has long been a dream for the industry to be able to predict the eating quality of live animals, and that dream is close to becoming a reality, MLA has reported ...

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