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@techeweup
Sep 17, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Whoever in industry keeps telling govt & RTOs that the main training our staff need is around chemicals and chemical handling please STOP! Who puts an amateur on a multi thousand dollar machine and runs the risk of them spraying the wrong thing in the wrong spot?? #notme
The main entry points to employment on farm are seeding and harvest... teach them to check/service & drive a tractor, safety around augers, how to trouble shoot small motors that run firefighters/augers. How to hook up & safely tow implements/silos & trailers. #notimetowipebums
How about skills required to operate auto steer and guidance systems. Teach them how to find and follow AB lines and trouble shoot when it doesn’t work. Teach them about controlled traffic systems and why we do that, how to calabrate and fix blockages in seeding bar #justanidea
I could also add to this low stress stock handling so that if they are needed to lend a hand with animals they know where to be, when to be and why they need to be there.

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Feb 1, 2023
How not to get left at the drafting gate with shearers….. I have heard a lot of noise about how difficult it is to find shearers. In an environment where they are in short supply there are a few things you can do to make sure they turn up when you need them. Image
1- Toilets… Shearers and shed staff are humans, not dogs, with a lot of females joining teams and monthly requirements a flushing toilet is an obvious basic requirement.
2- Drinking water… shearing is a demanding job and hydration is important. Putting a rainwater tank off your shed is tax deductible and provides a basic need.
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Jan 8, 2021
Fleece weighing tutorial for those that are interested... you will need a scale head, barcode reader, load bars, EID reading wand, thermal printer, bulldog clips and a bucket.... start by setting up your scalehead for fleece weighing ( I will blog this at a later date).....
Essential ingredient you must be using EID tags start by connecting your EID reading wand to your thermal printer via Bluetooth (make sure your wand doesn’t connect to your scalehead as well). You can now walk the board and scan EID tags and a barcode should print out....
Of the thermal printer (usually as the shearer does the belly is easiest)... put a bulldog clip on the ticket and tear it off sitting in front of the shearer but not too close that it get covered in fleece during the long blows ( be mindful of beginners they use more board space)
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Sep 25, 2020
Long Thread Warning -I have been on a massive learning journey implementing AgTech on farm for a while now and I feel somewhat obligated to share these learnings with the industry especially after the opportunities I have been given via the @AgriFuturesAU Rural Womens Award.1/17
My next acknowledgement must go to @the_wes_man_ for being an excellent sounding board, a wealth of knowledge and a way with words.... together we are proud to bring you the #8pillarsofagtech framework that deconstructs solutions into their fundamental elements, or pillars..2/17
These 8 Pillars are based on our combined experience, there has been many challenges, barriers, unknowns, learnings, successes, and failures to work through but from it all creates the foundation that each pillar is built on.
These 8 Pillars are....3/17
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Feb 9, 2020
Dear AgTech world, If you want to move from on the precipice to a fully flourishing industry being adopted by farmers then dump the subscription business model. As a farmer I can’t have 10 holes in the bucket (subscriptions). Cashflow is king in every business including farmers
Annual subscriptions are like Whiteants in my budget, chewing away regardless of use. It’s a bit like my Apple Music (if anyone can tell me how to remove that feel free) In tight years such as low rainfall these things can be crippling to a farm budget.
Data also needs to be treated as a commodity in its own right. Free to be bought and sold by farmers in the same way we trade wheat, wool or meat without a transparent data marketplace this industry will stall. Monetary value for farmers to make collecting data worthwhile
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Oct 25, 2019
With possession being 9/10ths of the law.. how much of your farm data do you physically possess?? Although tech companies say you own your data.. do you? Technically they have possession of it and are sending you an aggregated report..
So is what they are really saying is that they aren’t currently onselling the data they possess on your behalf? Will that always be the case? Is it time farmers thought about this more? We are being encouraged towards open source but who really benefits and is it both ways?
If I freely give an Agtech company my data, will they freely give me theirs? I suspect not... so what about a farmer controlled data co-op? Farmers in an area could store on farm data in a shared cloud. The data could be shared freely between them and sold to outside parties.
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Oct 11, 2019
EARMARKING.. a 16th century form of stock ownership.. I know on our farm we rely more on our eartags not our earmark.. I know eartags can be removed but earmarks can also be deformed with the introduction of DNA testing and EID tags... is this process still relevant??
Given the rise in activism and the current onslaught of farm practices... should we as an industry be reviewing what we do on farm.. earmarking is in my view unnecessary, can be perceived as cruel, creates an extra stress on our lambs and an entry point for infection..
Is it then time for a review into the practice?? Changes made to the regulation so that it is no longer compulsory?? Farmers can do it if they wish but those that no longer want to earmark aren’t punished for not doing so. What do you say @WAFarmers and @WAPastoralists
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