Japan's satellites bring new auto farming, stock management era

Andrew Marshall
Updated July 2 2017 - 6:24pm, first published June 27 2017 - 7:00am
Southern NSW consulting agronomist and livestock and graingrower, Nathan Stoll, Mangoplah, and Moree-based agricultural consultant, Andrew Parkes, check out some of Hitachi's emerging farm management technology with business development senior manager, Derrick Thompson (centre).
Southern NSW consulting agronomist and livestock and graingrower, Nathan Stoll, Mangoplah, and Moree-based agricultural consultant, Andrew Parkes, check out some of Hitachi's emerging farm management technology with business development senior manager, Derrick Thompson (centre).

For decades Japan has given us the latest in high-technology advances from household appliances and office computer breakthroughs to industrial-scale electronics and robotics.

Andrew Marshall

Andrew Marshall

National agribusiness writer

Andrew Marshall is the group agribusiness writer for ACM's state agricultural weeklies and websites. He is a former editor at The Land and has worked in various Rural Press group roles in Canberra, North Richmond (NSW) and Toowoomba (Qld).

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