Crop solutions

The Photoheyler rotary hoe, equipped with four cameras, weeds within the row. Many machines can do this, but the rotating knives make this machine unique. - Photos: Michel Velderman

08-08-2024 | Article

Camera directs knives of the Photoheyler rotary hoe with precision

The EEFs trialled will target key nitrogen loss mechanisms such as denitrification, nitrate leaching and volatilisation in different cropping regions and quantify crop nitrogen uptake to determine nitrogen use efficiency and return on investment. Photo: Arjun Pandey/University of Melbourne

05-08-2024 | Article

Australian research explores impact enhanced efficiency fertilisers on grain farming

Nilda Burgos, professor of weed physiology and molecular biology, is the principal investigator of study investigating microwaves as a non-chemical, broad-spectrum weed control. Photo: U of A System Division of Agriculture

01-08-2024 | News

Arkansas team leverages microwaves to improve weed management

Since early June 2024, one of the four Odd.Bot weeding robots has been in operation on the We Grow Organic Farm in the Netherlands. – Photos: Koos Groenewold

01-08-2024 | News

Odd.Bot weeding robot now ready for practical use

Some customers in Poland are using up to 14 implements on the Naïo robot Orio. Photo: Naïo Technologies

31-07-2024 | Article

Robot manufacturers intensify focus on Australian vegetable market

The key changes of the updated Ekobot WEAI weeding robot include a unique chassis and variable ground clearance. – Photo: René Koerhuis

26-07-2024 | News

Ekobot weeding robot with variable ground clearance

AI crop

22-07-2024 | News

Ramping up AI-driven crop disease monitoring

A trial field of Solynta. In the field, potatoes are being bred for resistance against the fungus Phytophthora. Photo for illustration. – Photo: Tamara Reijers

18-07-2024 | News

Bayer and Solynta enter the market together with potato seed

PepsiCo Europe and Yara partner to decarbonise crop production, supporting 1,000 farms across Europe.

18-07-2024 | News

PepsiCo Europe partners with Yara to decarbonise crop production

<i class="">Soil science PhD student Shuohao Cai places a sensing rod, which has multifunctional sensing stickers positioned to enable multi-depth measurements, in soil at UW-Madison’s Hancock Agricultural Research Station to test the team's technology. – Photo: Kuan-Yu.</i>

15-07-2024 | News

Low-cost printed nitrate sensors enhance precision farming

09:00 | Expert opinion

‘Capital Expenses – Part 1: Rethinking Big Iron’

Tx Trimble launches NAV-960 GNSS receiver for precision farming

Turkish Manufacturer Sevsan develops in-row hoe with camera recognition and AI