More than 30 exhibitors flaunted their top products and ideas at Tasmanian Agricultural Productivity Group's precision ag expo on Wednesday.
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TAPG chair Mark Kable said the event was very well supported by industry.
"This is our fifth event, and it's really gaining strength and momentum from year to year," he said.
"It's a speciality event on precision ag, and that's what we are really trying to showcase, and TAPG is also trying to focus education."
Mr Kable described TAPG as a post-farm-gate lobby group.
"All the major industries are on the board of TAPG... we look at a lot of post gate issues, but at the same time we have also been focusing, in the last five years, on precision ag.
During the Expo, Robin Tait spoke about the international perspective on soil health initiatives.
She was the 2018 recipient Nuffield Australia Farming Scholarship, which allowed her to investigate how regeneration agriculture principles can be integrated into cropping systems with the aim to reduce reliance on synthetic inputs for crop production.
"Our soils are really good. I had to bite my tongue a lot when people overseas spoke about everything they do to improve their soils because ours are naturally good."
"We are doing some good things, but there's a lot more we could be doing to keep our soils in our paddocks. We need to change our mindset soil and treat it like a living organism rather than a medium to grow our crops.
"We also need to reduce the disturbance and increase the diversity and look at always having our soil covered."
She said large amount and diversity in crop rotation was one thing Tasmania and especially the North-West was ahead of.
"One of the biggest realisations for me was that we have a very diverse rotation and the rest of the world really doesn't have the rotation."
Other speakers at the expo included Charles Chow who spoke about drone spraying and Rhys Stickler who spoke about precision technology in vegetable production.