Tours & Excursions

Technical Tours*

Tour 1
Tatura SmartFarm

Tour 2
Goulburn Valley Orchards and Vineyards

  • Experimental orchards (sundial, pear, solar, stone fruit, almond)
  • Virtual farm (augmented reality)
  • Precision irrigation management: Plant-based (Talgil/SupPlant) irrigation system
  • Automation of irrigation supply: TCCâ„¢ Network Control (Rubicon & GMW)
  • Smart IoT sensors (trunk gauges, fruit gauges, weather, soil moisture, drainage flux meter, water flow meter)
  • Rubens Technologies (fluorescence sensor, colour sensor, PAR sensor, datalogger APP)
  • Green Atlas Cartographer
  • Traceability
  • Platform harvester equipped with fruit sensors and traceability systems
  • Variable rate sprayer
  • Mobile frost fan
  • Fruit grader, Dynamic Controlled Atmosphere (DCA) Storage of Fruits
  • Entomology

  • Plunkett Orchards, Ardmona (Jason Shields: Platform harvester, leaf blower)
  • Geoffrey Thompson Orchards, Shepparton (packing shed)
  • Ripe Robotics
  • Nagambie Lakes Winery and Vineyards:
  • Ripe Robotics: Apple harvesting robot
  • Tahbilk Winery: Cellar door tour - wine tasting, Wetlands tour

Note: *All tours and excursions are subject to confirmation