{"id":26377,"date":"2024-08-20T15:32:41","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T05:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com.au\/?p=26377"},"modified":"2024-08-22T10:48:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T00:48:10","slug":"farming-is-surprisingly-high-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com.au\/farming-is-surprisingly-high-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Farming is Surprisingly High-Tech, and This is Why:"},"content":{"rendered":"
Those looking for a career in tech might be inclined to disregard the farming industry. After all, we often think of careers in the agriculture industry as including honest, hands-on work that gets you down and dirty.<\/p>\n
However, with recent technological advances on the farm, this isn\u2019t necessarily the case. In fact, over recent years, there have been tonnes of high-tech solutions integrated into farmwork to improve efficiency and productivity. What\u2019s more, they\u2019re pretty exciting to learn about too!<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re still a little sceptical about starting a tech career on the farm, we\u2019re here to ease your concerns! As you\u2019re about to discover, so many exciting developments are happening in the agriculture industry, and those who blur the lines of farming and technology careers will be at the forefront of many more to come.<\/p>\n
To get you hyped up about the possibilities of tech, we\u2019ve teamed up with our friends at Dairy Australia to bring you our top four technological advancements. Trust us, we chose our top four very <\/em>well!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ok, we know; this one sounds a little kooky, but once we explain it properly, you\u2019ll be just as excited about it as we are!<\/p>\n Can you imagine a robot milking a cow? It\u2019s a reality in Australia, thanks to the development of automatic milking systems that make the entire milking procedure free of human assistance! If you want to know how it works, the process goes a little like this:<\/p>\n \u00a0The technology has huge potential to reduce the amount of time dairy farms spend on milking, freeing up the farm staff to concentrate on other farm and business management activities, such as monitoring the performance of individual cows and the whole farm system. Forty Australian dairy farms are already using the automatic milking system, and it\u2019s going super well!<\/p>\n If caring about the environment matters to you, you\u2019ll love this next one. The carbon calculator, created by Dairy Australia, equips farmers to:<\/p>\n In short, it helps them operate in a way that best serves the environment and improving efficiencies. It\u2019s a big win for everyone: us, the farmers, and the planet!<\/p>\n Believe it or not, drones are also often used by dairy farmers to:<\/p>\n Gone are the days of using pen and paper to monitor the inner workings of your farm. Nowadays, many farmers now use powerful computer databases to:<\/p>\n This information is often fed directly into the milking process to increase the efficiency of the milking shed. How cool is that?<\/p>\n Ready to combine your love for technology with a rewarding career? Dairy farming offers a unique blend of technology and agriculture that is both challenging and<\/em> rewarding. So, what are you waiting for? Head over to Dairy Australia’s employer page<\/a> and start your journey today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Those looking for a career in tech might be inclined to disregard the farming industry. After all, we often think […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":26381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[34],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26377"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26409,"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26377\/revisions\/26409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}#1 Robotic Milking<\/h2>\n
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#2 Carbon Calculator<\/h2>\n
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#3 Use of Drones<\/h2>\n
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#4 Computer Technology<\/h2>\n
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Start Shaping the Future of Farming Today<\/h2>\n