The Centre for Agricultural Engineering delivers applied, practical and profitable research solutions that strengthen agricultural productivity and address environmental management challenges in Australia and overseas.
The Centre’s research focus includes irrigation and water resources management; farming systems innovation; energy efficiency and renewable energy; bioresource recycling; robotics, automation and machine vision.
For over 30 years, the Centre has been working with industry to develop more sustainable and efficient ways of using water sustainably to grow crops and support the environment. Irrigation research is conducted across a wide variety of agricultural industries nationally and internationally.
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Title: Automated Broad-acre Irrigation Optimisation
Leader: Associate Professor Joseph Foley
Project Team: Dr Malcolm Gillies | Dr Alison McCarthy | Dr Simon Kelderman | Ralph Shippam, TIA, University of Tasmania
Project Partners: Cotton Research and Development Corporation | Dairy Australia
Funding Body: Australian Government, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
UniSQ’s Centre for Agricultural Engineering is completing research on broad-acre surface irrigation, large centre pivots and lateral moves, to automatically optimise irrigation events with novel technologies developed by our Irrigation & Water Management team.
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Title: Dry Season Irrigation for Marginal and Tenant Farmers
Leader: Erik Schmidt
Project Team: Michael Scobie | Lidya Agustina | Dr Jochen Eberhard | Ralph Shippam | Rupak Sarkar, UBKV (North Bengal Agricultural University) | Mohammad Mainuddin, CSIRO | Santosh Mali, Indian Council for Ag Research
Project Partners: IWMI, International Water Management Institute
Funding Body: ACIAR Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
UniSQ’s Centre for Agricultural Engineering is supporting irrigation development in the Eastern Gangetic Plains, which include the Nepal Tarai, Bihar and West Bengal regions, and is one of the most densely populated, poverty-stricken belts in South Asia. The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research is investing in research aiming to improve the livelihood of women, marginal and tenant farmers in the Eastern Gangetic Plains, through improved water use and increased dry season agricultural production.
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Direct one-step measurement of water vapour flux from broad-acre irrigated cropping is a focus research area for the Irrigation & Water Management team at UniSQ’s Centre for Agricultural Engineering. The Cotton Research and Development Corporation is supporting this post-doctoral work of Dr Simon Kelderman to further refine sensor selection and deploy his novel system in commercial fields to allow industry to obtain direct crop evapotranspiration rates.
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The largest loss of water in the northern Murray-Darling Basin is the evaporation and seepage from on-farm water storages, and the Irrigation & Water Management team at UniSQ’s Centre for Agricultural Engineering remains keenly focussed on this “wicked” problem. The Cotton Research and Development Corporation is supporting this work to determine alternatives and further refine real commercial options for regional water managers across Australia to reduce this stored water loss.
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Title: Demonstrating and integrating irrigation technology for cotton
Project Lead: Assoc Prof Joseph Foley
Project Team: Assoc Prof Joseph Foley, Dr Jochen Eberhard
Project Partners: CRDC – Cotton Research and Development Corporation
Funding Body: CRDC – Cotton Research and Development Corporation
Project focusses on enhancing the uptake of advanced irrigation management technology across irrigated grower communities with a three-pronged approach for: actively engaged grower cohort through demonstration and peer interaction, dedicated on-farm agronomic service providers who are continuing to seek more understanding of these irrigation technologies, and industry’s very active extension networks busily dealing with a wide range of broad industry challenges.
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Title: Advanced Field Sensing
Project Lead: Assoc Prof Alison McCarthy
Project Team: Assoc Prof Alison McCarthy, Dr Derek Long, Dr Yiyi Xiong, Dr Jochen Eberhard
Project Partners: CRDC – Cotton Research and Development Corporation; Department of Primary Industries
Funding Body: CRDC – Cotton Research and Development Corporation
Development of a novel suite of automated machine vision tools that reduce reliance on workforce labour for agronomic scouting to potentially increase productivity and improve crop management decisions involving pests, crop growth, crop rotations, patch management and irrigation scheduling. The project will be delivered by engineers at UniSQ, and agronomists, entomologists and pathologists at QDPI.
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Title: The Australian Cotton Disease Collaboration (The ACDC) - Irrigation and nutrition management to reduce cotton wilt disease incidence and machine vision system development to detect and differentiate verticillium and fusarium wilts
Project Lead: Assoc Prof Alison McCarthy
Project Team: Assoc Prof Alison McCarthy, Mr Isaac Halling, Assoc Prof Joseph Foley
Project Partners: CRDC – Cotton Research and Development Corporation, Department of Primary Industries
Funding Body: CRDC – Cotton Research and Development Corporation, Queensland Department of Primary Industries
The expected industry outcomes and impact are that Australian cotton growers will have an improved understanding of the interactions between irrigation, nutrition and disease incidence for Verticillium and Fusarium wilt in both furrow and surface irrigation systems. This will contribute to reduced yield loss through understanding improved wilt. management options, increased water use efficiency when irrigating with a higher soil water deficit and increased profit through reduced fertiliser application and reduced disease incidence.
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Title: Advancing the adoption of climate-smart, innovative irrigation control technology for the cotton and dairy industries
Project Lead: Assoc Prof Alison McCarthy
Project Team: Assoc Prof Alison McCarthy, Assoc Prof Joseph Foley
Project Partners: CRDC – Cotton Research and Development Corporation; Ag Logic; Swan Systems; University of Tasmania
Funding Body: CRDC – Cotton Research and Development Corporation
This project will transition an innovative precision irrigation optimisation and control system, VARIwise, from proven proof-of-concept to a commercial-ready package. VARIwise can deliver 10% in water savings and 5% productivity improvements in cotton and pasture significantly increasing the climate resilience of irrigators and reduce emissions from water logging. It represents a step change in water use efficiency gains and will assist industries demonstrate their water sustainability credentials. The project will address the barriers to adoption of precision technologies by working with commercial technology providers and consultants to develop VARIwise into a format that can easily interface with any on-farm sensor and irrigation system. Non-exclusive commercial access will maximise adoption. The project includes on-farm demonstration activities led by irrigation technology consultants and the consortium will engage with industry extension teams to deliver communication activities. This research is funded from Australian Government Climate-Smart Agriculture Program’s Partnerships and Innovation Grant and led by CRDC in partnership with irrigation technology provider SWAN Systems, precision agriculture advisory business Ag Logic and University of Tasmania.
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Title: Water balance scoping study for Northern NSW/Queensland
Project Lead: Assoc Prof Joseph Foley
Project Team: Assoc Prof Joseph Foley, Dr Malcolm Gillies, Dr Simon Kelderman
Project Partners: CRDC – Cotton Research and Development Corporation
Funding Body: CRDC – Cotton Research and Development Corporation
A desktop scoping study for research into the measurement techniques for a full season water balance of siphon-less broad-acre irrigation systems is to be conducted. A review of siphon-less irrigation system designs most commonly deployed across Northern NSW/Queensland will be completed through interaction with key designers and leading growers.
The research team delivers outcomes by combining agricultural sciences, agricultural inputs and practices, agronomic production databases and precision agriculture technologies to efficiently manage agronomic and livestock production systems.
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Title: Cassowary Coast Reef Smart Farming
Leader: Debra Telford | UniSQ leader: Professor Bernard Schroeder
Project Team: Associate Professor Troy Jensen | Bruen Smith | Debra Telford | Peter Becke | Maria Solis | Renee Cluff (CANEGROWERS Innisfail) | Dr John Pickering | Sam Moore (Evidn)
Project Partners: CANEGROWERS (Innisfail) | Evidn
Funding Body: Great Barrier Reef Foundation (GBRF) through Terrain NRM
UniSQ Centre for Agricultural Engineering is partnering with CANEGROWERS Innisfail and Evidn Pty Ltd in a GBRF-funded project that aims to improve nitrogen-use efficiency (NUE) in sugarcane production systems.
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Title: Automated Small Plot Cotton Trial Picker
Leader: Associate Professor Troy Jensen
Project Team: Bruen Smith | Tim Johnson
Project Partners: Cotton Seed Distributors (CSD) | CSIRO
Funding Body: CSD | CSIRO
The purpose of this project is to develop a new automated on-board weighing system for a commercial 4 row seed cotton picker. The system will be developed for the existing JD7760/CP690 pickers.
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Title: Integrating soil and water management in vegetable production in Laos and Cambodia
Leader: Dr Alice Melland
Project Team: Dr Jochen Eberhard | Erik Schmidt
Project Partners: Cambodia Agricultural Research and Development Institute | Clean Agriculture Development Centre | National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute | National University of Laos | University of Tasmania
Funding Body: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)
This project aimed to improve soil and irrigation water management in Laos and Cambodia to achieve sustainably improved vegetable yields and households’ economies. Laos and Cambodia are developing economies seeking to improve crop yields for domestic consumption and export markets.
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Title: Are trends in silicon update a reason for concern?
Project Lead: Prof Bernard Schroeder
Project Team: Prof Bernard Schroeder
Project Partners: SRA - Sugar Research Australia
Funding Body: SRA - Sugar Research Australia
Investigating if trends in Silicon uptake are impacting crop performance, identify how various soil chemical properties may influence Si availability and if changes are required to soil and/or plant tissue assay critical values to ensure adequate Silicon nutrition.
Project Lead: Prof Bernard Schroeder
Project Team: Prof Bernard Schroeder
Project Partners: SRA - Sugar Research Australia
Funding Body: SRA - Sugar Research Australia
Assessing farming systems and residue management practices through monitoring of soils over time, assessment of sugarcane productivity, economic analysis of practice change and modelling (APSIM) to understand potential longer-term outcomes across a wider range of environments.
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Title: Air Operated Sample Probes
Project Lead: Assoc Prof Troy Jensen
Project Team: Assoc Prof Troy Jensen, Mr Bruen Smith
Project Partners: GRDC - Grains Research & Development Corporation; Grain Trade Australia
Funding Body: GRDC - Grains Research & Development Corporation
Comprehensive modelling and field trials targeting 10 different grain receival sites will be conducted to validate the effectiveness of the existing and newly proposed protocols. Project aims to identify whether a sampling issues negatively affects grower profits.
The research team explores alternative energy, waste recovery and energy efficiency options that enable industry to generate self-sustaining energy systems and ultimately cater for their own energy needs. A key area of research focus is the conversion of agro-industrial waste into profitable clean energy with a focus on biogas and biofertilisers from organic waste.
Title: ARC Research Hub on Nutrients in a Circular Economy (ARC NiCE Hub)
Leader: Professor Bernadette McCabe
Project Team: Dr Diogenes Antille (CSIRO) | Dr Serhiy Marchuk | Dr Jochen Eberhard | Ms Seonmi
Project Partners: Pyrocal Pty Ltd | Logan City Council | Urban Utilities | Queensland Department of Environment and Science | University of Technology Sydney | University of Melbourne
Funding Body: Australian Research Council as part of its Industrial Transformation Research Hubs scheme
The University is a key partner in the NiCE Hub and is working with water utilities, Government departments, energy and resource companies, agricultural and horticultural businesses and local councils to investigate the value of biofertiliser from a range of organic waste streams.
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Title: Pilot to Paddock (P2) Innovative on-farm water, energy and nutrient technologies and practices for Australian Dairy, Egg, Pork and Cropping industries
Leader: Dr Stephan Tait
Project Team: Dr Peter Harris | Dr Serhiy Marchuk | Torben Grell | Professor Bernadette McCabe
Project Partners: University of Queensland | University of Western Australia | Agriculture Victoria | Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Queensland | Scolexia Consulting
Funding Body: Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment as part of its Smart Farming Initiative program.
The University is taking the technical lead in this nationwide research, which is focused on taking manure from various agricultural industries and finding the best ways to turn it into valuable products that can be re-used back on farm.
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Leader: Professor Bernadette McCabe
Project Team: Dr Peter Harris | Lee Williams
Project Partners: Toowoomba and Surat Basin Enterprise | Toowoomba Regional Council
Funding Body: Fight Food Waste CRC
Toowoomba is home to significant agricultural and food processing sectors and the project offers a unique opportunity to explore existing technologies to produce an income stream from waste. The project aims to map the quantity and quality of waste products that end up in local landfill and explore technologies available for converting it into high-value products such as energy and solid or liquid fertiliser.
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Title: Pilot-scale production of granulated organomineral fertilisers on the Queensland Darling Downs
Leader: Professor Bernadette McCabe
Project Team: Dr Diogenes Antille (CSIRO) | Dr Serhiy Marchuk
Project Partners: Queensland State Government | Fight Food Waste CRC
Funding Body: Waste to Biofutures Fund, Queensland State Government
Funding from the Waste to Biofutures Fund has enabled the procurement of a lab scale granulator to develop specifications for novel, enhanced-biofertilisers that meet the requirements for field application using standard farm equipment (physical properties) and nutritional needs of crops (chemical composition).
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Title: Evaluation and demonstration of Ugold and Urval efficacy in field trials
Project Lead: Prof Bernadette McCabe
Project Team: Prof Bernadette McCabe, Dr Peter Harris, Dr Serhiy Marchuk
Project Partners: University of Technology Sydney
Funding Body: University of Technology Sydney
To demonstrate the processing technology at two geographical sites and three different location types (workplace, mobile, public), and demonstrate the fertilising power of novel urine-derived products in field-scale trials located in peri-urban agriculture settings and in urban parklands in two different geographical areas.
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Title: Addressing Topsoil Deficit Through Circularity: BHP Mitsubishi Alliance
Project Lead: Prof Bernadette McCabe
Project Team: Prof Bernadette McCabe, Dr Peter Harris, Dr Alice Melland, Dr Jochen Eberhard
Project Partners: BHP Mitsubishi Alliance; Landloch; Pyrocal
Funding Body: BHP Mitsubishi Alliance
The project will take a novel circular economy approach to address topsoil deficits by investigating thermal carbonisation of mine and local biomass wastes to create biochar soil amendments that will make subsoils and spoils suitable for mine rehabilitation.
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Title: Guidance for on-farm greenhouse gas (GHG)
Project Lead: Dr Alice Melland
Project Team: Dr Alice Melland
Project Partners: Zero Net Emissions in Ag CRC
Funding Body: Zero Net Emissions in Ag CRC
Development of guidance on protocols, methods and metrics informing a national standard for quantifying GHG emissions and removals in agricultural systems, to ensure that a common approach to GHG accounting is applied across Australian agriculture, in quantifying farm emissions and the mitigation value of CRC innovations.
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Title: Sustainable future fuels: Advancing duckweed feedstock
Project Lead: Dr Peter Harris
Project Team: Dr Peter Harris, Dr Serhiy Marchuk
Project Partners: The University of Adelaide; Active Research
Funding Body: Department of Education - Australia’s Economic Accelerator Ignite Program
Aims to develop and test technology for producing duckweed using residue from anaerobic digestion (digestate) of dairy manure, and evaluate the duckweed as a source of biomass for biofuel production in Australia. Modelling results will be used to estimate potential economic value and gauge the value add duckweed contributes to Australian biofuel biomass feedstock estimates.
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Title: Pre-treatment of suitable solid wastes for improved anaerobic digestion
Project Lead: Dr Peter Harris
Project Team: Dr Peter Harris, Prof Bernadette McCabe
Project Partners: AMPC - Australian Meat Processor Corporation; The University of Queensland
Funding Body: AMPC - Australian Meat Processor Corporation
Undertake laboratory testing to crosscheck with several UQ outcomes. Incorporate new feedstocks into UniSQ-developed decision support tool 'ADAdvisor'. Contribute to the development and delivery of a training package for operators of anaerobic digestion equipment at red meat processing facilities.
The team develops advanced robotic sensing technologies to enhance autonomy in crop production, biosecurity and animal welfare on-farm, with aims for on-farm adoption in the commercial farm conditions of today. The team also provides leadership on the integration of sensing systems with agricultural robotics into the future.
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Title: Machine vision monitoring of chicken welfare
Leader: Dr Cheryl McCarthy
Project Team: Dr Derek Long
Project Partners: AgriFutures Chicken Meat Program
Funding Body: AgriFutures Australia
Technologies to estimate weight, uniformity and behaviours of meat chickens are being developed by UniSQ’s Centre for Agricultural Engineering and a commercial partner, which will assist farmers to meet production goals as well as monitoring chicken welfare.
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Title: Moon to Mars initiative
Leader: Dr Cheryl McCarthy
Project Team: Dr Cassy Percy | Professor Peter Brett
Project Partners: Australian Space Agency
Funding Body: Australian Space Agency through its Moon to Mars Demonstrator Feasibility Grant
UniSQ’s Centre for Agricultural Engineering is developing novel machine vision technologies to monitor food plants on extended space missions and has recently completed a project for the Australian Space Agency.
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Title: Time motion analysis in the deboning of beef carcasses
Leader: Professor Peter Brett
Project Team: Dr Basem Aly
Project Partners: Oakey Beef Exports
Funding Body: Oakey Beef Exports
Video analysis has been undertaken of the time taken for skilled butchers to achieve specific cuts from a beef carcass on a production line. The outcomes of this project will allow Oakey Beef Exports to evaluate the many improvements made on the production line since the 1960s and maintain a sustainable and competitive position in the meat processing market.
Leader: Dr Alison McCarthy
Project Team: Dr Derek Long | Dr Yiyi Xiong
Project Partners: Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries
Funding Body: Cotton Research and Development Corporation
UniSQ’s Centre for Agricultural Engineering has developed an app ‘PestDetect’ that uses the smartphone’s camera and image analysis to detect and count silverleaf whitefly, leading to improved insect sampling in cotton crops. A follow-on project is targeting further priority crop attributes for crop protection.
This project uses access to the International Space Station (ISS) provided by industry partner Axiom Space to fly a fit-for-purpose plant chamber and demonstrate machine vision algorithms for plant health by UniSQ.
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Title: Tactile Sensing and AI for Robotic Beef Cutting
Project Lead: Dr Basem Aly
Project Team: Dr Basem Aly
Project Partners: FaBA – Australia’s Food and Beverage Accelerator; The University of Queensland; Kilcoy Global Foods
Funding Body: FaBA – Australia’s Food and Beverage Accelerator
This project aims to develop a robotic demonstrator for performing high-value beef cuts in the processing environment. The enabling technology for this development is tactile perception as the primary sensing method, potentially supported by additional sensors such as vision cameras.
The research team leads and directs the adoption of ag tech across a range of agricultural industries to improve profitability and farming practices.
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Title: Changing the Game - Resilience to seasonal variations and drought through ag tech
Project Leads: Justine Baillie, Michael Scobie
Project Team:
Dr Sayma Shammi, Mr Corey Plant, Mrs Toni Gillis
Project Partners:
SQNNSW Innovation Hub, Tosari Crop Research Centre
Funding Body: GRDC - Grains Research and Development Corporation
Project Website:
Changing the Game
To validate digital agriculture and automation at a commercial farm scale to inform decision making and assist to manage the risks associated with seasonal variations and drought preparedness in the grains industry through activities at Tosari Crop Research Centre.
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Assessment of the benefits derived from two ag technologies and industry readiness to adopt within the Australia grains industry - operator assisted leader follower technology in harvest operations and Augmenta as a platform to provide real time agronomic assessment and application of variable rate nitrogen in winter wheat crops.
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Title: Increasing extension capacity pilot in Southern Queensland
Project Leads: Michael Scobie, Justine Baillie
Project Team: Dr Charlie Aves
Project Partners: SQNNSW Innovation Hub
Funding Body: GRDC - Grains Research and Development Corporation
Establishment of a pilot program to improve extension adoption of grains industry research on the Darling Downs and ensure effective and co-ordinated approach to engage and connect with grower advisors and other research providers and facilitate local extension and adoption activities including workshops, targeted training and demonstration trials.
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Title: Smart system for evaporation on polymer deployment
Project Leads:
Michael Scobie, Justine Baillie
Project Team: Dr Derek Long, Erik Schmidt, Dr Pam Pittaway, Sarah Seton
Project Partners:
Gwydir Valley Irrigators Association
Funding Body: CRDC - Cotton Research and Development Corporation, GRDC - Grains Research and Development Corporation
Trialling and assessment of the use of drones for automated sensing and control operations for the application of polymer evaporation suppressants on water storages.
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Title: Optimising Floating Solar Covers for Evaporation Mitigation
Project Leads:
Michael Scobie, Justine Baillie
Project Team: Assoc Prof Guang Chen, Erik Schmidt
Project Partners:
CRDC - Cotton Research and Development Corporation
Funding Body:
CRDC - Cotton Research and Development Corporation
Undertake a series of configurations and optimisation assessments for floating photovoltaics. These assessments will determine the most cost effective system of floats and panels to i) optimise power generation ii) maximise evaporation mitigation and iii) minimise cost within the Australia cotton industry.
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Title: Profitable pulses in Pakistan
Project Leads: Justine Baillie, Michael Scobie
Project Team: Dr Dipika Das, Prof Shahbaz Mushtaq
Project Partners: Pakistan Agricultural Research Council
Funding Body: ACIAR - Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
To adopt a co-innovation approach, engaging farmers, researchers, policymakers, and private sector stakeholders to develop sustainable solutions for strengthening pulse production systems and understanding farmers and (potential) market opportunities in Pakistan.
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Title: Ripple Effect
Project Leads: Michael Scobie, Justine Baillie
Project Team:
Corey Plant
Project Partners:
Grower Group Alliance, Australian Government DAFF, The Natural Heritage Trust
Funding Body: Grower Group Alliance
This project is funded by a grant from the Australian Government’s Natural Heritage Trust Climate-Smart Agriculture program.
Project Webpage: Ripple Effect
This project is a national, grower-led project designed to improve water security, biodiversity, and climate resilience for Australian farmers. Project activities will involve developing demonstration sites to quantify the potential of evaporation mitigation technologies.
