Integrated Mapping Technologies: Products & Services

Many growers recognise it takes more than experience and good soils to be competitive these days. Many have been frustrated by the disjointed way that promised "technology solutions" have been delivered and how, all to often, such solutions only provide part of the answer or are inappropriate to local conditions.

IMT backs the skills and experience of Australian Growers with linked technologies, science, information and experience.

After listening to many growers express their frustration at how technology is being delivered to them, IMT has assembled a proven set of linked technology based solutions that provide growers with an accessible pathway to achieving sustainable profits. Our emphasis is on optimising natural resources and initiating precision farming processes. These processes typically provide growers with an 18 times return on investment over a three year period.

We often work with locally based agronomists who build on our work by introducing advanced agronomic processes and specialised "niche" marketing to further increase grower profits.

IMT's overall approach revolves around developing a clear understanding of the natural resources (topography, soils and soil condition, climatic attributes etc.) of a clients property. We work with our client to develop and implement a Farm Plan. Depending on the clients requirement, IMT can either develop the Farm Plan for the client to implement or we can work with the client over time and provide on-going assistance.

The IMT Farm Plan forms a base that is used to identify resource management issues impacting on productivity such as saturation, soil compaction, salinity hazard, sodicity hazard, livestock and climate etc. Once identified, these issues are ranked in terms of their impact on productivity and the cost/benefit of remediation. A long term strategy is then developed to alleviate these problems over time with the largest yield impacts generally being dealt with first. This approach often means that the cost of subsequent work in improving productivity is paid for by productivity gains.

While IMT provides a linked series of processes, we are happy to work with growers on a one off basis to solve a particular problem or establish a new system or process.