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“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

Photo: Galama Media

15-08-2022 | Article

VIDEO: Trabotyx, weeding robot of Dutch origin

Photos and video: René Koerhuis

12-08-2022 | Article

Wageningen University on a quest to develop the best robotic grippers

Modern combines accurately record yield per square metre in real time. Very valuable information that farmers share with FBN to determine the effects of different cultivation strategies. And potentially also which combine brands, for example, perform best.

11-08-2022 | Article

How safe is farmers’ data if FBN goes public?

xFarm Technologies' management. - Photo: xFarm Technologies

11-08-2022 | News

xFarm Technologies secures €17 million to make agriculture more sustainable

Users of John Deere Operations Center (TM) and the CropX farm management system can now access CropX sensor data and advice from inside the Operations Center. - Photo: CropX Technologies

11-08-2022 | News

CropX farm management system connects with John Deere Operations Center

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

A John Deere autonomous electric tractor prototype. - Photo: John Deere

10-08-2022 | News

John Deere electric autonomous tractor to reach Australian farms by 2026

Full-rate production of Monarch Tractor’s MK-V Series is scheduled to begin Q1 2023 at the Foxconn Ohio facility. - Photo: Monarch Tractor

09-08-2022 | News

Foxconn to build autonomous electric tractors for Monarch in U.S.

Photo: Screenshot from Polymath video

09-08-2022 | News

Polymath Robotics develops universal autonomy software

Photo: Canva

08-08-2022 | News

Syngenta India to start with drone spraying

VIDEO: Autonomous plant-specific spraying with Robotti

08-08-2022 | Article

VIDEO: Autonomous plant-specific spraying with Robotti

Photo: Canva

05-08-2022 | Article

Best management practices for harvest data

Photo: Syngenta

04-08-2022 | News

Syngenta launches precision soil analysis service for farmers