Agriculture. Technology. Adopted. Tim Neale, who was named Australian Rural Consultant of the year in 2018, has over 25 years’ experience across Australia and internationally, 20 of which was spent running his own business. Tim is co-founder of DataFarming, which services over 35,000 (FY2023) farms across 50 countries with satellite imagery every 5 days. Tim’s strong ag tech focus has been driven by an evolution from CTF (controlled traffic farming), sustainable farming systems, auto-steer guidance technology, elevation mapping and water drainage planning, yield mapping, variable rate, soil mapping, spatial landscape assessment, GIS, and satellite imagery. He has managed over 30 industry RD&E projects for a broad spectrum of clients in grains, horticulture, cotton, viticulture, sugarcane, turf, and tree crops. He has served on the CRCSI (program 4) board, Society for Precision Ag Australia (SPAA) committee, the National Positioning Infrastructure (NPI) advisory board, and is a foundational member of AusAgTech. Tim has delivered presentations to around 40 national and international conferences including the first PA conference in South Africa and the World Congress on Conservation Agriculture in Canada.
Listed skills include Gis Applications, Satellite Imagery, Farm Management, Gps, and 45 others.