Yearly Archive: 2021

Aberfoyle Farms – for our conditions, Goldacres does it better.

Charlie and Neil Vallance of Aberfoyle farms are located in the heart of Western Victoria in Lake Bolac. Their mixed farming operation is a second-generation farm in one of the country’s most consistent agricultural growing areas. The western districts can produce very consistent rainfall which can equate to very wet and boggy farming, thus needing... Read more
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New lease of life for Goldacres Crop Cruiser

Goldacres Crop Cruiser serial number 8648 rolled out of the Ballarat, Victoria, production line in August 2005. Sold in Western Australia to Stuart Nicholson & Son of Moorine Rock, the Crop Cruiser spent the next 15 years as a broadacre sprayer. It had done about 4000 spraying hours, as it was always intended until it... Read more
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Autonomous Spraying Technology

Autonomous spraying technology with help from Bilberry, Swarm Farm robotic agriculture and Goldacres. Goldacres technical guru, David Tuppen recently commissioned a fully autonomous sprayer with green on green weed detection using a SwarmBot robot and Goldacres Prairie Special trailing sprayer. Swarm Farm produces a range of autonomous robots for many different agricultural applications. SwarmBot “Uniform”... Read more
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