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AI crop advice

12-05 | Article

Can an AI chatbot give reliable crop advice?

Tortuga AgTech’s autonomous strawberry harvesting robot, winner of the 2024 Future Farming Ag Robot of the Year Award, is now part of Oishii’s automation strategy for vertical farms. Photo: Tortuga.

04-04 | News

Oishii acquires Tortuga AgTech to scale robotic strawberry harvesting

WeedSpider

13-02 | Article

WeedSpider enters the Californian market

spading machine

21-01 | Article

Spading made efficient with double rotors and integrated subsoiler

Photo: Canva

17-01 | News

CropScan expands operations with new office in Western Australia

Photo: Mark Pasveer/Canva

02-01 | Article

2024 top 5: Most read articles on harvesting

Katherine Meacham-Hensold, scientific project manager for the Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE) project, and Don Ort, Robert Emerson Professor of Plant Biology and Crop Sciences and Deputy Director of the RIPE project. “Food security is not just about the amount of calories that can be produced but we must also consider the quality of the food.” Photos: University of Illinois

01-01 | News

Engineered potatoes show 30% growth boost under heatwaves

Photo: Canva

21-10-2024 | News

Vive fastens the introduction of crop protection products

Photo: Reinke

17-10-2024 | News

Reinke Manufacturing introduces E3 precision irrigation system

For the 2024 growing season there were 50 Solix Sprayer Robots in commercial use on farms in Indiana and Illinois. – Photo: Solinftec

11-10-2024 | News

Solinftec: reduction up to 98% in herbicide volume with Sprayer Robot

BASF also has a facility in Ludwigshafen, where crop protection products are manufactured. Photo: BASF

03-10-2024 | News

BASF to divest agricultural activities

Smart camera and sensor technology is rapidly gaining ground worldwide. The Dutch company Rometron has now equipped over 50 kilometers of spray booms with its Weed-IT sensors. The company, based in the Netherlands, is now 25 years old and employs 48 people. – Photos: Martin Smits

03-10-2024 | Article

Smart Dutch sensor technology Rometron Weed-IT is gaining worldwide momentum

Photo: Canva

27-09-2024 | News

Biotalys granted patents for Evoca in Europe and the United States

FieldView Drive 2.0

13-09-2024 | News

Bayer introduces new hardware: FieldView Drive 2.0 simplifies farm activities

Europe saw a 9% decrease in cereal production, with an estimated 270.9 million tonnes of cereals harvested across the continent. – Photo: Mark Pasveer

03-09-2024 | Expert opinion

Can the EU’s new agricultural philosophy reverse the cereal production decline?

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