Crop solutions

A three-year cover crop of a grass-clover mixture will be mowed periodically with no other disturbance. Farmers in Washington state typically grow potatoes every 3 to 5 years. - Photo: Deirdre Griffin LaHue.

18-08-2022 | News

Improving soil health in potato cropping systems

Andrew Hannon and Anna Falkiner of Cropify. “The grade can be misclassified and that is what Cropify wants to get rid of.” - Photo: Cropify

17-08-2022 | Article

Cropify offers growers technology for objective grain classification

The researchers used a tractor attachment called The Weed Zapper. - Photo: The Weed Zapper

17-08-2022 | News

Effectiveness of electricity in weed control explored

“We have given crops fertilisers, water, pesticides. We have made them lazy, not brave", French farmer Marc Mascetti said. - Photo: Canva

16-08-2022 | News

Growing crops without water or fertiliser

Radicle Labs is part of a suite of new tools called Radicle Agronomics, which is to enable agronomists discard manual and error-prone processes. - Photo: Precision Planting

16-08-2022 | News

Precision Planting launches fully automated soil sampling laboratory

The Spherag solutionshould be able to reduce water and energy consumption in agriculture by one-third with little effort. - Photo: BayWa

15-08-2022 | News

BayWa invests in digitalising and automating existing irrigation systems

Photos and video: René Koerhuis

12-08-2022 | Article

Wageningen University on a quest to develop the best robotic grippers

HarvestEye consists of a camera that records the potatoes as they pass by on the conveyor belt, a computer that processes the data, and a tablet with which the operator can monitor the process and control it. - Photo: HarvestEye

10-08-2022 | News

HarvestEye measures size and count of potatoes during harvest

Photo: Canva

08-08-2022 | News

Syngenta India to start with drone spraying

Photo: Canva

05-08-2022 | Article

Best management practices for harvest data

10:00 | Article

Farmers see driverless tractors becoming a reality sooner than expected

08-05 | Article

Fully electric onion planter saves on labour: HeGro Onionmaster 2.25 plants onions with just 1 operator

Fieldin and ARAG bring real-time precision spraying to California growers