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AgriFutures Tea Tree Oil Program Extension project resources 2024
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This publication contains information for the tea tree industry on the use of drones to survey for weed pressure and create spray maps, drone mapping tea tree die back in far north QLD and using drones to identify sprinkler faults in tea tree plantations. It also contains information on the use of EM mapping to assess fallow blocks for tea tree planting.
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