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With cotton, optimal planting depth is crucial for good yields. - Photo: Josh Unruh

30-11-2022 | Article

How measuring seed-available moisture ensures optimum planting depth

With Pentair's additional filling glass for sprayers you can accurately measure up to 50 millilitres. - Photo: Martijn Knuivers

30-11-2022 | News

New drift reducing spraying technologies at EIMA 2022

Earlier this month, Italian machinery manufacturer Maschio Gaspardo ‘entered’ the world of robotics by acquiring a majority share in fellow Italian startup Free Green Nature. - Photo: Free Green Nature

29-11-2022 | Article

First signs of consolidation in juvenile field robot market

All the user has to do, is take a photo of the fresh produce and the quality control app analyses the produce. - Photo: Kubota

28-11-2022 | News

Kubota invests in fruit and vegetable quality control app

Growth of the market size of weeding robots such as this Dino (by French company Naïo Technologies) is driven by problems such as water scarcity, overuse of chemicals, decline of biodiversity, greenhouse gas emissions and eutrophication - Photo: Naïo Technologies

28-11-2022 | News

IDTechEx: Market size of weeding robots to increase 11-fold in five years

Alistair Craig uses his Chafer sprayer to apply all fertiliser and spraying. Liquid fertiliser is spread by target application so he knows exactly where it goes and where it doesn’t go. - Photos: Chris McCullough

25-11-2022 | Article

High fertiliser prices: How are farmers worldwide coping with it? | Part 2

Making fertiliser from wastewater is economically viable, a new study shows.

24-11-2022 | News

Making fertiliser from wastewater is feasible, study shows

Field robot exhibition zone during the last edition of World FIRA. In 2023, it will be a in-field event, where visitors can see the robots in action. - Photo: GOFAR

24-11-2022 | Article

VIDEO | World FIRA 2023 to showcase 20 robots in action

AppHarvest's Berea Farm in Kentucky features autonomous harvesting. - Photo: AppHarvest

23-11-2022 | Interview

AppHarvest CEO: “Our high-tech indoor farms are giant robots”

The Geo-Bird operational planning tool offers farmers a free way to improve the efficiency of their operations with optimised machine guidance waylines. - Photo: Business Wire

23-11-2022 | News

Free AGCO tool to plan and optimise GNSS machine guidance lines

Robotics Plus recently launched its autonomous Unmanned Ground Vehicle. The Robotics Plus team at FIRA USA. Left to right: Robotics Plus founders Dr Alistair Scarfe (CTO) and Steve Saunders (CEO) with Chief Commercial Officer Nathan Soich. - Photo: Robotics Plus

22-11-2022 | Article

The journey of developing an Unmanned Ground Vehicle

Production of Infarm's indoor-grown wheat is independent of external climatic conditions and is thus climate resilient. - Photo: Infarm

22-11-2022 | News

Infarm shows potential of indoor-grown wheat

The main crop of Redbank Farm is potatoes, grown on 28 hectares, but the farm also produces wheat, canola (photo), onions, peas, pyrethrum, poppies, barley, mustard, buckwheat and corn in rotation. - Photo: Redbank Farm

21-11-2022 | Article

High fertiliser prices: How are farmers worldwide coping with it? | Part 1

Experts fear that prices of fertiliser will remain elevated for some time. - Photo: Kuhn

21-11-2022 | Article

Fertiliser market: Prices remain high, but cost relief is on the horizon

A Dutch precision farming research project worked with a sensor to measure presence of soil insects. How does it indicate soil health?Photo: NPPL

18-11-2022 | Article

Sensor measures presence of soil insects to indicate soil health

Modern spreaders and applicators can help farmers save on fertiliser costs. At SIMA 2022, lots of solutions were presented, like this Kuhn Aero spreader. - Photo: Kuhn

17-11-2022 | Article

New technology to help save on fertiliser costs