Everyone's familiar with slow internet or mobile-phone dropouts but for the nation's farmers — often living well beyond the range of fibre optic cables and phone towers — the stakes are a lot higher.
The University of New England is developing technology that saves farmers time and money by allowing them to monitor livestock remotely in real time."What we are really doing is adapting technologies which are well developed in the cities, and are now being adapted and better developed for rural areas where you have a lot fewer people so you need a different technology solution," Pivotel Satellite WA Business Manager Nicholas Hart, said.
Although Mr Slade said Australian farmers would be quick to pounce on the impressive new tools, just as city businesses are supported by digital infrastructure the Government needed to continue to play a role in plugging holes in the bush so they could remain competitive on the world stage. "[Australian farmers] have always been early [technology] adopters I feel as an agricultural sector. Because we don't have the same level of Government assistance other countries have, we're very much market driven, there are no hand outs.
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