Articles by René Groeneveld

The technology stops the overuse of water and fertilisers through precision irrigation, and helps to increase yields, according to Agrinoze. - Photo: Agrinoze

23-05 | Article

‘A plant itself knows better when it needs water’

The Burdekin Irrigation Project aims to maximise industry profitability through smarter irrigation practices which will also improve environmental outcomes. - Photo: Josh Withers

22-05 | Article

Cane farmers near Great Barrier Reef are adopting irrigation automation

Long coleoptile wheats can be sown at depths of more than 10 centimetres, making better use of stored soil moisture. - Photo: GRDC

18-05 | Article

Long coleoptile wheat a game changer for Australian growers

The WeedSpider, a platform capable of automatically weeding, spraying, and thinning a variety of crops, will be demonstrated in-field. - Photo: SeedSpider

17-05 | News

FIRA USA 2023: more than 15 in-field robot demos

Niels Olsen: “We made available what’s already there.” - Photo: Soilkee

15-05 | Article

The only Australian farmer to ever earn soil carbon credits

Until farmers start with low disturbance tillage, they will not get all the benefits from it, Dr Bakers points out. - Photo: Rohan Rainbow

09-05 | Article

Scientist John Baker: ‘A lot of farmers are doing no-tillage wrongly’

The new modular design of Tom V4 was planned to be the basis for the Dick and Harry robots, that were expected as a commercial product in 2024 and 2025. Photo's: SRC

08-05 | News

Small Robot Company in danger of entering administration

An infield device measures the temperature of the canopy, the ambient temperature, the relative humidity, and the solar radiation, the building blocks of understanding how well a plant transpires. - Photo's: Athena IR-Tech

01-05 | Article

Understanding the water needs of crops

The agreement between the two companies will help to improve in-field data analysis for grain, corn, soybean and cotton farmers in North America, Australia and New Zealand. - Photo's: John Deere

01-05 | News

New automated insights for grain growers and cotton producers

An image of fruit size tracking for strawberries. - Photo's: Bitwise Agronomy

24-04 | Article

Using a GoPro camera to create forecast information

Groeneveld

René Groeneveld Correspondent for Australia