Real Success Stories: Explore our customer case studies

The Lean family used to use a legacy provider’s tank monitoring products on their operation, but they were having issues with satellite connectivity reliability. Every time they would have a cloudy or rainy period, they would not get tank monitoring updates for up to a week, negating any benefits that they could derive from this equipment.

When the NSW DPI started the Farms of the Future (FotF) program, the Winter family knew they wanted to participate and acquire new technology for their farm that would work well despite the lack of 4G coverage on their property. Their other requirement was to find a provider that uses high-quality hardware and is able to combine all data on the same dashboard.

Ben Watson’s farming operation comprises three different enterprises: irrigated cropping, dryland cropping, and livestock, so any technology adopted by Allabah Pastoral needs to work for, and be accessible by, everyone working across the three different enterprises.This means that Ben had to find a provider that works across every type of farming operation.

Apiarists traditionally relied on manual hive inspections to detect any issues with hive health or activity. With some apiarists managing over 1,000 hives and the pollination season for the most important crops only lasting 6 weeks, under-performing hives can easily go undetected. This endangers pollination-activity, and therefore the productivity of orchards.

The team at Waverley Ag is constantly looking to achieve higher labour efficiency and increased agronomic benefits, while also trying to improve staff retention through providing a more attractive and safe workplace. This challenge has been a focus at Waverley for over 20 years already, and still is today.

Michael & Helen Payten used to have to travel around their farm every day in order to get critical information such as water tank levels, fuel tank levels and soil moisture. For weather-related information such as spray conditions or humidity for hay baling, they had to rely on data from over 50KMs away, making it inherently inaccurate. This way of working took up too much of their time and led them to not always make the most optimal decisions.

The mission statement of Carberry & Sons’ farming operation is to be a family farming business that wants to be sustainable and profitable. The family however was spending a lot of time and money on driving around their properties checking simple things like fuel levels, and channel levels. Because they couldn’t delegate these menial yet critical tasks to the rest of the team, this prevented them from being focused on higher-priority work instead.

Ben Swansbra used to spend a lot of his time during summer managing water on his property to irrigate his cotton crop. By constantly having to drive around to check weirs, ditches and channel levels, and manually recording numbers to identify trends and being able to adjust pumps, gates and valves when appropriate, he would spend all his waking hours monitoring - resulting in little sleep and no life outside of work. On top of this, he would also have to manually monitor the many fuel tanks on his property to ensure that none of them would run dry and cause issues.

Drew Fitzner is a third generation farmer, who grows around 3,200 hectares of crops each year, consisting of a rotation of wheat, barley, canola, peas, lupins and vetch. With a background in electrical engineering, Drew has a natural interest in agtech and how it can help him improve his farming practices: “ Our biggest challenge is spraying. Spray drift has been something that's been brewing for quite a while, particularly with the 2,4-D chemistry going into cotton or other sensitive crops. In response, we’ve been trying to get the best possible data to ensure that we’re doing the best job possible. We want to make sure we are keeping our chemical in our paddocks and that it’s not drifting to other paddocks - but we also need to make sure that we can prove it. There are a lot of regulations around hazardous inversions, so none of this is very straightforward for us.”