David Hine | Adviser
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David Hine
David Hine is an experienced consultant in horticultural industries. He has twenty years farming experience that included time in leadership roles in industry organisations. Capable of innovative solutions to issues, he looks for ways that new tools can be applied to enhance food production systems.
Technology, like geographic information systems using maps as intuitive ways to interact with data, RFID, remote sensing to show plant vigour, and proximal sensing for soil sampling are in the toolkit he brings to the task. In 2003, he founded Land and Water Management Pty Ltd (L+WM) to support horticulture going forward.
L+WM assists managers of/advisors to horticultural businesses and other primary industries to farm sustainably by building great tools with a focus on their daily operations. Sustainability is a way of assessing the performance of the agricultural business.
We provide an integrated platform of software and hardware, including custom solutions where appropriate. Integration allows us to bring together separate collections of data for a variety of uses across the organisation. Hardware might include soil temperature sensors or a system for collecting the data for yield maps. Software could include systems to show across the enterprise where the harvest teams are working, or might enable managers to save their soil sample data in a database so the data is not lost, and can be seen on a map.
A special initiative over the past eighteen months has been support and guidance on managing using soil health principles, integrated with detailed soil mapping and soil zones. Soil health extends the considerations taken into account when planning the fertiliser program. The factors include not only soil chemistry (pH, EC and N, P and K) but also soil physical condition (soil texture and possible compaction), and soil biological functioning because what the plant gets is mediated by soil biology.
Soil organic matter plays a pivotal role in productivity. It varies across the farm. Using proximal sensing technology enables us to cost effectively measure the changes in the soil system including soil organic matter, and work with your team to identify strategies to enhance soil health. We provide data to guide your progress in optimising your productivity while farming carbon in the soil.
Reflecting the importance we place on soil health, we have a product-specific site at www.soil-health.com.au. It provides details about carbon farming and our services.
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