Wanted: high-tech grads to work with Aussie farmers


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  • Monday, 06 Feb 2017

Bringing the future to farming: The push comes as cutting-edge machinery is used to plug a labour shortage on the nation's remote farms.

SYDNEY: Parts of Australia's farming industry are rushing to recruit a new generation of tech-savvy graduates as the sector swaps its bucolic past for a future of drones, robots and automated sensors.

The push comes as cutting-edge machinery is used to plug a labour shortage on the nation's remote farms that threatens to derail its ambitions to become Asia's food bowl.

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