Royal Easter Show prize-winner

Congratulations to Peter Gillard of the Department of Primary Industry Water and Environment, Tasmania. The Royal Agricultural Society of NSW organizes an Agricultural Software Competition in conjunction with the Royal Easter Show in Sydney. This year one of his XpertRule KBS applications won the expert system first prize. The department's Threatened Fauna Adviser is used by Forestry officers to access formal and agreed advice from the Threatened Species Unit of Forest Practices Board and Parks and Wildlife. It provides help on how to log in a way that preserves habitat for any threatened species that occur in the harvest area.

Exhibitors came from all over Australia and New Zealand to this year's Agricultural Software Competition which was run on the 4th and 5th of March 1999. The Royal Easter show itself ran for 16 days over Easter and attracted over 1 million people to the new Homebush site which is also to be the venue for the Olympics in 2000.

Read more about how the Tasmanian Government uses Expert Systems technology to assist the delivery of information to farmers.