Glen conducts machinery research on broadscale crops, such as improving seeders, sprayers and harvesters. He is very interested in showing growers the benefits of the controlled traffic farming system.
Conservation of soil properties for maximum crop production is hard without controlled traffic due to the increasing weight of modern machinery. Glen believes autonomous vehicles have potential in agriculture to reduce the negative effects on managers of dangerous tasks or skilled labour shortages.
Glen has more than 39 years experience in agricultural research on cereal and pulse crops in Western Australia. He is originally from a black soil farm near Toowoomba in Queensland where he completed his Agricultural Engineering degree.
Glen went to Oklahoma State University for two years to complete a masters of science degree in Agricultural Engineering, and then on to Merredin for farm machinery research.
Links
[1] https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/sites/gateway/files/styles/gw_large/public/Glen%20Riethmuller.jpg?itok=Z1wqRLuO
[2] https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/glen-riethmuller