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Agricultural engineering; farm mechanisation (machine management and economics, field equipment [tractors, planters, harvesters], machine impact on soil, mechanisation for sustainable crop production). What I do
My teaching and research is largely concerned with the impact of farm machinery on soils, crops, people and the environment. A large amount of my work is now with postgraduate students, but I also teach undergraduate degree, diploma and certificate students. For the past 15 years I have been committed to the investigation of wheel traffic effects in Australian cropping systems, work which laid the foundations for the adoption of controlled traffic farming. I also have a major commitment to an ACIAR project with China Agricultural University on improving tillage/traffic practices in Northwest China, and co-operated with Obihiro University in Japan on animal waste management. I am also a part of the Australian Weed Management CRC, specifically concerned with the application of high precision guidance to improved physical and herbicide weed control.
Background
I have been involved in teaching and research at The University of Queensland Gatton since 1968, following three years in London with a research funding body, and one year with a tractor manufacturer. I completing a PhD on lucerne hay drying (the K-hay process) part-time while working here, but subsequently developed an interest in machinery management while on study leave at Cranfield University in England. This lead on to an investigation of tractor reliability, machinery economics, and an interest in soil/wheel/crop interactions, via a period of study leave at North Dakota State University. I am currently president of the International Soil Tillage Research Organisation.
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