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Fully automated farm to be built in New South Wales

CHARLES Sturt University (CSU), Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, will be home to Australia’s first ‘hands-free’ farm as part of a new high-tech collaboration between CSU and the Food Agility Co-operative Research Centre (CRC).

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 Food Agility Chief Scientist Professor David Lamb, Food Agility CEO Richard Norton, CSU Interim Vice-Chancellor Professor John Germov and CSU Chief Operating Officer Rick Willmott. CSU will be hosting a high-tech 'hands-free' farm.

Food Agility Chief Scientist Professor David Lamb, Food Agility CEO Richard Norton, CSU Interim Vice-Chancellor Professor John Germov and CSU Chief Operating Officer Rick Willmott. CSU will be hosting a high-tech 'hands-free' farm.

CSU and Food Agility have announced they will partner to build the Global Digital Farm (GDF), Australia's first fully-automated commercial farm, which will demonstrate the future of farming through robotics...

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