Telstra partners with Charles Sturt to test digital farm platform

Charles Sturt University and Telstra have entered into a 12-month partnership that will aim to assist the Farm Data Services platform to securely manage and integrate data from multiple technologies across the Global Digital Farm.

The trial program will see the university providing Telstra with access to data generated by its integrated Global Digital Farm in Wagga Wagga. The Farm Data Services platform integrates, standardises and distributes data sets from existing agtech deployments.

If the data streams are integrated successfully, Charles Sturt farm management will gain a single point of access for teaching and research activities and enable focused programs to develop new decision support tools.

This will be trialled at the Global Digital Farm at Charles Sturt in Wagga Wagga, which is managed in partnership with Food Agility, as a test bed for agrifood research and technology.

Renée Leon, Charles Sturt University Vice-Chancellor, said the partnership and the Global Digital Farm are enabling the future of farming in Australia.

Food Agility CEO Richard Norton said the Global Digital Farm was unique in Australia and the perfect place to road test Telstra’s Farm Data Services Platform before scaling nationally.

“The Global Digital Farm is a real-world testing environment, where the 1600-hectare commercial farming operation works in tandem with scientists and technologists,” Norton said.

Edited after publication on 16/5/23.