With precision agriculture offering new opportunities to improve the process and practices of vegetable production, Tasmanian agronomist Josh Wing jumped at the opportunity to take part in a 2016 study tour to New Zealand and learn how their industry is employing precision agriculture techniques.

The tour was funded by a strategic levy investment and focussed on precision agriculture techniques including soil mapping and strategic sampling programs, yield monitoring and minimum tillage farming.

Josh says he developed a wealth of knowledge during the tour, with a key highlight being the chance to observe the land management system at the fully-integrated A.S. Wilcox & Sons packing facility in Pukekohe (near Auckland).

To learn more about Josh’s experience on this and other levy-funded study tours, have a look at the latest edition of Grower Success Stories – real results from the vegetable R&D levy, or read the report from the New Zealand tour on the InfoVeg database.

VG15704 Grower study tour of New Zealand – Precision vegetable production was funded by Hort Innovation using the vegetable research and development levy, co-investment from the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries and contributions from the Australian Government. Hort Innovation is the grower-owned, not-for-profit research and development corporation for Australian horticulture.