Smartphone GPS Survey Apps – with Photo Point Function (Updated 15 Nov 2024): APPLE iOS Gaia GPS (MY EQUAL FIRST CHOICE) – USD$59.90-$89.90+/year Measure Map Pro (MY EQUAL FIRST CHOICE) – USD$30.99 Agro Measure Map Pro (MY EQUAL FIRST CHOICE) – USD$74.99 GPS Kit – Offline GPS Tracker – USD$14.99…
Plan Element Pricings
Plan Element Pricings Given the enormous success of the REX Online Farm Planning courses, since 2017 its been unusual for us to create whole farm plans. HOWEVER what people do want from us are precision GPS-ready CAD grading construction layouts of different plan elements— for earthmoving contractors and establishment crews.…
Off the Contour #24 – #KeylineSuperPlow History
1994/95 Our dear friends Nada & Tony Smark (then of Woodbrook Farm) bought us our first Yeomans Keyline Plow in return for us designing & developing their first vineyard & forest (which was a Keyline vineyard & forest – see picture below!). What is a ‘Regrarians Keyline Superplow’? History Since…
Holstons Savannah Shade Study
The integration of trees into agricultural landscapes is done in many different ways. One layout that has a lot of practical and aesthetic appeal to even the most ardent of graziers is the savannah. Otherwise known as open grassy woodlands, dehesa (see photo below) and montado these systems are seen…
Off the Contour #23 – Fertile Landscapes SuperPlow Project
Over the last few years Franck Chevallier (France) has developed a open source (OS) subsoiler which is designed to be able to be built by local metal workers using readily available materials. In 2016 Regrarians’ Darren J. Doherty instigated the formation of a working group to develop formal CAD plans…
Irrigation Dam Concept Layout
The late, great P.A. Yeomans (1904-1984) did the world a great service by developing the #Keyline farm planning system from the 1940’s. With this he provided some excellent and enduring work on the ground on any number of properties across Australia and a few other parts of the world, notably a…
#RegrariansGeography Process — Holstons Station
#2Geography in the #RegrariansPlatform® — our first planning project for 2017 — Holstons Pastoral Co is 1000ha (2500ac) property near Buchan in Gippsland, VIC, AU. Here we are starting things off with the #RegrariansGeography analysis — this is in part adapted from the late P.A. Yeomans Keyline® Geographic and Geometric analysis…
2017 Kicks off at Holston’s Station
We kicked off 2017 with our first farm visit for the year at the 1300ha Holstons Station near Buchan in east Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. The brief is to design build a complete Keyline® landscape using the #RegrariansPlatform. We tested the new DJI #MavicPro — both for getting a bird’s eye view of the site…
FarmingIT UAV Survey Quote
For many years now we’ve been working with Jo & Martin Peters and their team at FarmingIT near Meredith (Victoria, Australia) who have developed perhaps the most cost-effective professional farm mapping service that Regrarians knows of anywhere in the world. More recently they started offering a UAV (‘Unmanned Aerial Vehicle’) based…
Off the Contour #19 – #AfterTheFire?
We had a post by Adam Snow on our excellent Regenerative Agrarians Facebook Group that I thought would be great to turn into an ‘Off the Contour‘ post. This is by no means a complete appraisal of what can or could be done #AfterTheFire. What I have done though is…