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Driving Agtech adoption in Central Queensland
Technology Category
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms
Applicable Industries
- Agriculture
Applicable Functions
- Logistics & Transportation
- Quality Assurance
Use Cases
- Farm Monitoring & Precision Farming
- Inventory Management
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
The Challenge
CQ Ag Services were looking for a platform they could use to improve both internal and external communication. They wanted to be able to store their observations and recommendations in such a way that all agronomists and their clients have access. The daily operations at CQ Ag evolve around the individual growers’ needs at different times in the season and how they can be best serviced. Seasonality and rapidly changing demands are common in Central Queensland due to soil-moisture availability, irrigation-water availability and many other factors.
About The Customer
CQ Ag Services has a long history of servicing growers in Central Queensland, with clients based in Emerald and across the major cropping areas of the Central Highlands including Rolleston, Dysart, Capella and Kilcummin. Now, in its 20th year of business and 8th year as a Ruralco Holdings joint venture, CQ Ag Services supplies its clients with a wide range of products and services from seed, fertiliser and crop protection to animal health, rural merchandise and agronomy services. It is the agronomy services side of CQ Ag Services that has general manager and senior agronomist Darren Young particularly excited.
The Solution
They decided to adopt Agworld so they could all collaborate on one set of data which is cloud-based and also give their grower clients access to this data and allow them to contribute with their own observations. All their agronomists use Agworld and, by using Agworld, their agronomists always have a complete field history, previous observations and any other relevant information at their fingertips. So it doesn’t matter if they have different agronomists visit the same farm or field at different times during the season, as they have all got the critical data available to them. This really helps them with planning their workload as they cover a large geographical footprint.
Operational Impact
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