Andrew Smart Managing Director M 0428 922 638 |
Andrew has been involved in precision agriculture since 1999 where he worked at IAMA as a precision agricultural specialist. Andrew worked closely with agronomic staff as well as research organisations including Australian Centre for Precision Agriculture (ACPA) to introduce PA to IAMA’s client base. Andrew along with Broughton Boydell and Guy Boland founded PCT in 2001 to service corporate farms PA implementation. PCT first two clients were Clyde Agriculture at Bourke and Sundown Pastoral – Keytah at Moree and both companies remain clients today. Andrew works directly with these and other corporate clients including Twynam Group, Australian Food and Fibre and Auscott Limited to continue to develop new ideas and techniques to continue to push the boundaries for other corporate and large private farmers. Corporate farms are considered VisionAg Agencies in the VisionAg network because of their on farm agronomic skills and new corporate clients fall under the VisionAg Network.
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Michael Wells VisionAg Development Manager M 0428 362 474
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Michael has also been involved in PA since 1999 based in SA with Kieran Agencies. Michael joined PCT in 2005 and became a partner in 2008. Michael has been instrumental in the introduction and development of the VisionAg network in WA and SA where three dealers now operate 5 EM, 2 gamma radiometric units and seven RTK GPS units collecting data. These dealers look after more than 20 agencies which encompasses around 1.2 million ha’s. Currently the VisionAg network has been running in those states for two years and this format is being translated to NSW and QLD over the next two seasons. Michael will be instrumental in ensuring the work quality and solutions are being standardised across the VisionAg Network.
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Brooke Sauer Special Projects Manager M 0427 090 279 |
New to the team in October 2009 is Brooke Sauer who will look to increase PCT’s involvement in specific industry related projects. These projects require expertise in a number of areas of spatial data collection and management and Brooke’s role will see these projects are delivered with integrity and professionalism.
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