Dr David Deery1, Dr Julianne Lilley2
1CSIRO, Canberra, Australia, 2CSIRO, Canberra, Australia
Biography:
David Deery co-leads the GRDC Frost and Heat Management Analytics Project. The project aims to develop and commercialise temperature mapping and crop modelling technologies to help growers and advisers manage the impacts of frost and heat.
David is an established leader in digital agriculture at CSIRO with a track record of driving innovation across multiple science domains. His expertise extends to achieving outcomes through creating successful collaborations with commercial partners, agronomists, and cross-functional teams of software/hardware engineers and domain scientists. With over 15 years of hands-on experience, David has actively contributed to CSIRO's digital transformation journey.
The Frost and Heat Management Analytics (FAHMA) project, which commenced July 2022, is a GRDC-funded project led by CSIRO and comprises an additional 15 organisations, including eight commercial partners, state departments and universities. The FAHMA project aims to develop and commercialise temperature mapping and crop modelling technologies to help growers and advisers manage the impacts of frost and heat in wheat, barley, canola, chickpeas, and lentils.
Abstract:
This paper outlines the progress to date on the FAHMA project. A key objective is to create and bring to market analytics-driven technologies that assist farmers and advisors in mitigating the effects of frost and heat on wheat, barley, canola, chickpeas, and lentils. Spanning the commercialisation, development and research continuum, the project has developed prototypes with commercial partners for mapping temperature in grower’s fields to enable usability testing with agronomists and growers. Additionally, the team have reused data from prior investments to improve the frost and heat damage functions in the APSIM crop model for wheat, barley and canola. Together these will enable growers and advisers to assess the likely yield reduction across paddocks after frost and heat events.
This presentation will explain how the project will enable delivery of these solutions to growers, agronomists, and others in the grains industry through commercial partnerships with multiple AgTech businesses. These partnerships will enable translation of the underpinning science into analytics-products that aid key sowing decisions, in-crop management decisions, and underpin the development of new risk management tools.