Agriculture
CeRDI has an established national and international profile for its eResearch collaborations in agriculture, characterised by innovative approaches using advanced spatial mapping, the federation of agricultural-related data from disparate sources, as well as portal design and visualisation tools.
Food Agility CRC
The Food Agility CRC is an innovation hub creating new digital technologies and services to help the Australian agrifood industry grow its comparative advantage.
Soil CRC
The Soil CRC is bridging the gap between soil science and farm management to assist Australian farmers in making decisions on complex soil management issues.
3D Soil Constraints
In collaboration with the Grains Research and Development Corporation and the Colere Group, CeRDI contributed to a project evaluating existing and emerging technologies for three-dimensional (3D) soils data at a sub-paddock scale for grain growers.
Agricultural Price Guide
The Agricultural Price Guide project is enabling growers and agronomists to examine historic pricing information and fluctuations in prices for major agricultural commodities.
Agricultural Research Federation (AgReFed)
The Agricultural Research Federation (AgReFed) project is supporting collaboration and novel insights in research, development and policy through improving the discoverability of data.
Climate Variability and Grazing
Perennial Pasture Systems (PPS) is leading a project, with CeRDI and Agriculture Victoria, to use technologies with pasture growth predictors for on-farm decision making in response to changes in climate and environment.
Decision Wizard
The Decision Wizard project is a decision-making web app helping guide farmers in their on-farm decision-making and building knowledge about how decisions are made.
Forecasts for Profit
The Forecasts for Profit project is improving the use of seasonal climate forecast information and how it is communicated.
Grain & Graze
The Grain & Graze project is providing information, case studies, articles, discussion papers, tools and other decision-making resources to assist mixed farming enterprises.
Growing Southern Gippsland
Growing Southern Gippsland has been designed to encourage southern Gippsland landholders to identify and target their own climate change knowledge gap needs as they journey through the portal.
Hyper Yielding Crops
The Hyper Yielding Crops project is maximising cropping yields in high rainfall areas by informing the setting of attainable grain yield targets.
Kangaroo Grass, as a crop and to heal Country
The Djandak Dja Kunditja (Country Healing its Home) project is using Kangaroo Grass (Themeda triandra) as a modern perennial broadacre cropping system.
My Farm Dashboard
My Farm Dashboard assists farmers to make better decisions based upon critical support information and data about their property. CeRDI has been instrumental in the development of the portal.
National Landcare Program Smart Farming Project
The Building the Resilience and Profitability of Cropping and Grazing Farmers project is providing farmers with information to make better on-farm management decisions.
Natural Resource Management Portal
The Corangamite Natural Resource Management Portal is providing the tools and information for communities and agencies to identify joint priorities for catchment management.
Online Farm Trials
The Online Farm Trials project is digitally transforming trial research for Australia’s grains industry to enable users to rapidly find decision useful information.
Online Final Reports
The Online Final Reports project is using innovative knowledge management approaches to evaluate, convert and collate reports into a consistent and accessible format.
Precision Agriculture
The Collaborative eResearch in Agriculture project is a partnership with Precision Agriculture to develop digital tools to enhance precision agriculture services.
Rangelands Carbon
The Rangelands Carbon project is developing a remote sensing tool to accurately and affordably measure soil carbon in Australian rangelands.
Riverine Plains
The Capturing In-Paddock Variability for Bespoke Fertiliser Management project is using precision agriculture datasets to unlock new insights about plant performance.
Soil Health Knowledge Base
The Soil Health Knowledge Base is a repository of soil health information for the Corangamite Catchment Management Authority (CCMA) and the Glenelg Hopkins Catchment Management Authority (GHCMA). It assists land managers and other stakeholders to implement catchment management plans across the region. The Knowledge Base was awarded the 2015 Victorian Spatial Excellence Award and the 2015 Asia Pacific Spatial Excellence Award, Environment and Sustainability category.
Soil Interoperability Experiment Demonstrator
The Soil Interoperability Experiment Demonstrator project is interoperably federating soil data stored in three disparate databases in New Zealand, Australia and the Netherlands.
Soil Sampling Research
The Soil Sampling Research project is supporting the establishment of a soil monitoring network to help farmers improve and protect their soil.
Southern Farming Systems Soil Probe Network
The ProbeTrax project is a web platform displaying soil moisture and temperature values across a soil probe network in the high rainfall zones of Victoria and Tasmania
Visualising Australasia’s Soils
Visualising Australasia’s Soils (VAS) aims to provide participants of the Cooperative Research Centre for High Performance Soils (Soil CRC 
) with access to considerable volumes of reliable quality soil data sourced from a federation of soil data custodians who share their data according to the rules they set.
Visualising Victoria's Groundwater
The Visualising Victoria’s Groundwater project is an innovative technology offering a real-time, centralised site for Victoria’s groundwater information.
Andrew MacLeod
Andrew commenced his PhD with CeRDI in 2021 and receives a scholarship from the Food Agility CRC. His research is exploring the adoption of the latest international advances in syntactic and semantic interoperability to develop standardised data streams from disparate sources to enrich decision support systems used within the agricultural and food industries.
Advancing syntactic and semantic interoperability for data in the agricultural and food industries
Access to data provides the fuel for next generation decision support systems and the opportunities for sharing data have never been greater.
Peter Weir
Peter commenced his PhD with CeRDI in 2020 and receives an Australian Government Research Training Program fee-offset scholarship through Federation University Australia. He also receives a scholarship from the Cooperative Research Centre for High Performance Soils whose activities are funded by the Australian Government's Cooperative Research Centre Program.
In-Paddock Variability of Plant Available Water
With the adoption of precision agriculture and implementation of site-specific crop management by farmers there is a better understanding of spatial and temporal variabilities in cropping fields and pastures.
Basharat Ali
Basharat commenced his PhD with CeRDI in 2019 with Precision Agriculture as the industry partner. He also receives a top-up scholarship from the Food Agility CRC. His research is exploring the value proposition for Australian digital agriculture, with a focus on precision agriculture.
Investigating the roles of data, digital agriculture and resilience in agricultural performance
It has been established that the environmental implications of meeting future food demand depends on the mechanism adopted by global agriculture.
Robert Clark
Robert commenced his PhD with CeRDI in 2019 with the Grains Research and Development Corporation as the industry partner. He also receives a top-up scholarship from the Food Agility CRC. His research is exploring how federating Australian grain trial data can lead to new discoveries that support the ideals of digital agriculture and enduring profitability for growers.
Predicting crop yield within the growing season at sub-paddock scale: a big data approach
The availability of accurate and timely predictions of crop yield within the growing season would be of enormous benefit to the grains industry in Australia.
Rekha Attanayake
Rekha commenced her PhD with CeRDI in 2019 with Southern Farming Systems, Victorian Limestone Producers Association and Precision Agriculture as industry partners. She also receives a top-up scholarship from the Food Agility CRC. Her research is exploring and developing novel approaches to advance the understanding of lime type, quality, variability and spreadability on performance for agricultural purposes under current farming systems and practices.
Developing new methods to help farmers make decisions on lime use and lime requirement
Soil acidity is recognised as one of the major soil constrains to increased agricultural productivity in Australia.