The future of forecasting is here.
Introducing Foragecaster. Forecast the growth of your forage, grazing livestock and farm sustainability using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
What does the future hold with Foragecaster?
AgriWebb has historically focused on record collection of actuals, entered by producers. The Foragecaster initiative leverages these best of breed models, in tandem with machine learning, to generate a reliable, ever-learning livestock supply and sustainability forecaster. Foragecaster is transforming insights from the 60 million animals tracked in AgriWebb over the last 8 years from over 12,000 producers to develop machine learning models that help farmers predict livestock growth. This means producers can access a probabilistic forecast for pasture growth and availability as well as the sustainability metrics for their natural capital.
Project outputs
The Foragecaster initiative aims to deliver several key outputs that can better enable farmers to forward plan and optimise animal and grazing outcomes.
Grazing planner
The pasture and livestock forecasting models will feed into our new grazing planner to support decision-making by taking into account climate forecasting and growth models, allowing producers to forward plan.
Climate information
Localised historical and forecast weather information will be provided to the farmers
Sustainability metrics
Foragecaster predictive models will be used to determine sustainability metrics both current and also forecasting into the next 6 months. The sustainability metrics will include the amount of carbon sequestered through vegetation and soil, the amount of emissions from livestock, and other factors contributing to natural capital like biodiversity.
Contributing partners
A 6 month pilot started in January 2023 with the below partners for the researchers to understand the problem space and the existing data, hire the required postdocs and researchers, and to start prototyping different approaches.
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“If I’m going to have a pasture cover that is above average then I’m on the right track…and if I’m going to have way more feed than I need I can start thinking about not selling animals I was going to sell or buying more animals in.”
NSW Grazier and Foragecaster participant
