Electrifying the farm: ‘it could add $100,000 a year to our bottom line’
Written by Aston Brown from the Guardian
Some Australian broadacre farmers are eager to switch from diesel to electric – but the machinery they need is not yet commercially available
It takes a specialised arsenal of diesel-guzzling machines to grow a crop on Tom Carmody’s broadacre farm near Esperance, 600km south-east of Perth.
Hulking metal tractors tow plowers, seeders, sprayers and spreaders up and down vast expanses of wheat, canola and barley. When the grain is ripe, combine harvesters roar by.
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Written by Aston Brown from the Guardian
Some Australian broadacre farmers are eager to switch from diesel to electric – but the machinery they need is not yet commercially available
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It takes a specialised arsenal of diesel-guzzling machines to grow a crop on Tom Carmody’s broadacre farm near Esperance, 600km south-east of Perth.
Hulking metal tractors tow plowers, seeders, sprayers and spreaders up and down vast expanses of wheat, canola and barley. When the grain is ripe, combine harvesters roar by.
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… we have a small favour to ask. More people are reading the Guardian than ever but advertising revenues across the media are falling fast. And unlike many news organisations, we haven’t put up a paywall – we want to keep our journalism as open as we can. So you can see why we need to ask for your help. The Guardian’s independent, investigative journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce. But we do it because we believe our perspective matters – because it might well be your perspective, too.
If everyone who reads our reporting, who likes it, helps fund it, our future would be much more secure. Support the Guardian – it only takes a minute. Thank you.