Farrer students not only got a first hand look at the forefront of harvesting technology on Thursday, but also gained some valuable insight into the capabilities and opportunities of the industry in the future.
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Case IH product manager Tim Slater arrived with two of the newest combine harvesters on the market, but also an important classroom lesson about how Australia drives agricultural technology through necessity.
"It is a great opportunity to show the students the advancements in harvesting, but also the technology that follows with it," he said.
"Recently we have added protein and real time grain monitoring, and a level of automation - we are trying to use technology to bridge the skills gap that we may find through certain times of the year."
Mr Slater said that the industry is finding it harder to find skilled operators for certain machinery and tasks, because many of those roles do not operate 12 months a year.
The Case IH team also spoke to the students about what roles are available in the industry and in agriculture.
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"Ag can be a real high tech industry - there has been a real take up in technology in the last 10 or 15 years," he said.
"Opportunities are there for people to become producers and operators, but there is also plenty of opportunities for engineering, technology, data mining and interpretation as long as the hard nuts and bolts that we sell.
"Australia is at the forefront of technology because we do rely heavily on driving efficiency because we don't have the resources of some other countries."
For student Jacob Smith the opportunity to gain some understanding of the technology and opportunities was very different to the general theory lessons.
"We have never seen anything as big as this - bit of an eye-opener," he said.
"This is something I would like to work with in the future."