Approximately 140 people attended the Napperby
Field Day to view the new water management technologies on
diplay which included the 'Walk-Over-Weighing' and
automatic cattle drafting. This was captured on live video
and transmitted 2km to the Tilmouth Well Roadhouse over the new
SANDS network.
Also
displayed was real time information on water levels, rainfall,
still photos and water medicators from the 15 watering points that
the Observant telemetry system is monitoring across the
property.
The
field day also featured a range of presentations on livestock
management and marketing, carrying capacity calculators, the NT
Heifer Project, water medication, remote management and the
WaterSmart Pastoral Production™ project in other regions of
Australia.
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Above: Field day begins with opportunity for attendees to share
ideas with manufacturers and suppliers of technologies
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Above: Outdoor area hosted presentations on 'informed livestock
management and marketing', 'the NT heifer project' and
'opportunities for beef production'.
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Above: Observant's Matt Pryor adjusts the C1 unit at Tilmouth
yards
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Above: Grundfos pump display
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Above: Bill Murray and Tim Driver of Cawd Engineering explain
the Walk-Over-Weighing and auto drafter.
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Above: Field day participants gather at Tilmouth Well to hear
about the technologies in use at Napperby.
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Above:Crowd gathers for refreshments between sessions
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Above: Roy Chisholm speaks about the technologies they have been
using.
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Above: Solar and telemetry systems in use.
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Above: Heading to look at the auto-drafter.
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Above: Field day attendees
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Above: Tim Driver of Cawd Engineering, Napperby's Roy Chisholm
and project officer Adrian James.
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Above: Napperby cow makes her way through the race and is
automatically weighed, drafted and eartag recorded.
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Above: Mono solar pump is linked to the Observant system and
send pump data back to homestead.
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Above: DPIFM's Rod Gobbey adresses the crowd.
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Above: Mehran from the University of Woolongong shows
the SANDS video monitoring live from the yards.
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