An Idaho farmer recently went Down Under to share his experience in precision agriculture with Aussie producers.

Robert Blair of Kendrick, Idaho was the keynote speaker at the 15th Symposium on Precision Agriculture held at Mildura, Victoria last month.

Blair grows winter and spring wheat, malt barley, lentils, peas, garbanzo beans, lucerne hay and cattle on his operation and he is a well-known promoter of precision farming. In 2009, he received the Precision Farmer of the Year award from the PrecisionAg Institute. Blair is a leading advocate of unmanned air systems for precision agriculture, and holds a precision field day each year to demonstrate how Precision.AgWired.com on his operation.

Read about Blair’s visit to the symposium in the Australian agriculture publication Stock Journal.