AgHack
Government and Innovators unite to solve validated agricultural problems
Please note some downloads to data on data.wa.gov.au will require you to register a free account
CHALLENGE 1 - Grading grain at the farm gate
- http://www.graintrade.org.au/commodity_standards
- ABS: Value of Principal Agricultural Commodities Produced, Australia, Preliminary, 2016-17
- http://services.ga.gov.au/
- https://registry.opendata.aws/sentinel-2/
- https://registry.opendata.aws/landsat-8/
- https://www.planet.com/docs/reference/data-api/
CHALLENGE 2 - Where did my lamb chop come from?
- https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/management-reproduction/condition-scoring-sheep (https://youtu.be/1F5V-GcG1Qk How to condition score sheep)
- http://www.makingmorefromsheep.com.au/market-focussed-lamb-and-sheepmeat-production/tool_3.3.htm
- http://apps.daff.gov.au/MLA/CostOfProduction.xls
- https://www.publish.csiro.au/an/Fulltext/an09146
- ABS: Livestock and Meat, Australia, May 2018
- ABS: Livestock Products, Australia, Mar 2018
CHALLENGE 3 - Monitoring the rangelands
- https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/rangelands-infrastructure-linear-features-dpird-066
- https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/rangelands-infrastructure-point-features-dpird-065
- http://services.ga.gov.au/
- https://registry.opendata.aws/sentinel-2/
- https://registry.opendata.aws/landsat-8/
- https://www.planet.com/docs/reference/data-api/
- https://registry.opendata.aws/terrain-tiles/
- http://aghack.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/list.html (See below for resources on accessing this S3 bucket.)
CHALLENGE 4 - Connected sheep
- https://www.mla.com.au/prices-markets/databases--resources/
- http://apps.daff.gov.au/MLA/CostOfProduction.xls
- ABS: Historical Selected Agricultural Commodities, by State (1861 to Present), 2011
- ABS: Livestock Products, Australia, Mar 2018
CHALLENGE 5 - Identifying and predicting pests to protect WA
- http://mypestguide.agric.wa.gov.au/reporter
- https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/pests-weeds-diseases/pests
- http://www.agriculture.gov.au/pests-diseases-weeds
- https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/biosecurity/pest-and-disease-information-service-padis
- https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/bam/western-australian-organism-list-waol
- http://www.outbreak.gov.au/
CHALLENGE 6 - Whose grain is that?
- http://www.graintrade.org.au/node/1039
- http://www.agriculture.gov.au/ag-farm-food/food/nrs
- https://www.austrade.gov.au/ArticleDocuments/1358/Food-Safety-ICR-Grains.pdf.aspx
CHALLENGE 7 - What to grow and when
- https://www.aciar.gov.au/programarea/Cropping-Systems-and-Economics
- ABS: Value of Principal Agricultural Commodities Produced, Australia, Preliminary, 2016-17
- https://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/?commodity=wheat&months=240¤cy=aud
CHALLENGE 8 - Making sense of agricultural data
- https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/group/aghack
- http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/
- https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/weather-api-10
- http://aghack.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/list.html (See below for resources on accessing this S3 bucket.)
Useful general data links
- http://www.abs.gov.au/
- http://www.abs.gov.au/Agriculture
- https://www.data.gov.au/
- https://data.gov.au/organization/abares
- http://www.data.wa.gov.au/
- https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/organization/department-of-primary-industries-and-regional-development
- http://agriculture.gov.au/
- http://agriculture.gov.au/abares/data
- https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/
- https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/maps-and-data
- https://data.oecd.org/agriculture.htm
- http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#home
Help
- https://toolkit.data.wa.gov.au/hc/en-gb/categories/115001102388-Developers-Entrepreneurs
- https://toolkit.data.wa.gov.au/hc/en-gb/categories/115001102408-Data-Professionals
- https://toolkit.data.wa.gov.au/hc/en-gb/articles/115009837448-How-To-Using-Geospatial-Data-Web-Services-in-QGIS
- https://toolkit.data.wa.gov.au/hc/en-gb/articles/115009664647-How-To-Using-Geospatial-Data-Web-Services-in-ArcGIS
Accessing the AgHack S3 Bucket (Rangelands & Agricultural Data Challenges)
For browsing individual file access, use the directory listing provided by: http://aghack.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/list.html
To access and download data en masse:
1) Install the AWS CLI and then run:
mkdir aghack
aws s3 sync s3://aghack aghack --no-sign-request
Warning: This will download everything in the bucket - ~45GB of data. Make sure you've got the space to spare.
2) Use a desktop GUI like Cyberduck, FileZilla, or S3 Browser