Seeding & Planting - Future Farming

A Case IH tractor with SoilXplorer, a device that has real-time soil sensing systems, automatically adjusting implement working parameters. - Photo: CNH Industrial

26-03-2024 | Article

The impact and benefits of variable rate seeding

A seeding machine from the British machinery manufacturer Claydon for sowing a crop as a cover crop in untilled stubble. Manufacturers in the Netherlands are also responding to the trend of shallow seeding and supplying machines suitable for sowing cover crops. - Photo: Geertsema

25-03-2024 | Article

Which machine do you choose for sowing cover crops?

Currently, the research team is working on planting the full 300 acres of Rogers Memorial Farm. - Photos: University of Nebraska-Lincoln

04-03-2024 | Article

Nebraska research team developing autonomous planting robot for cover crops

SelectShot delivers a precision dose-per-seed application. - Photos: CapstanAG

31-01-2024 | Article

SelectShot: set it, forget it, and save on fertilizer while seeding

The use of a drone for sowing cover crops in maize. - Photos Koos Groenewold

18-01-2024 | Article

Sowing cover crops with a drone: not perfect, but promising

Ribbon seeding involves placing a seed tape in the ground using a specialized planting machine. Seeds are pre-attached to one side of the tape in the factory. - Photo's: Koos Groenewold

20-10-2023 | News

Ultra precision planting with wood pulp fiber tapes

The drone carried 2 kilograms of seed per flight. - Photo's: Peter Roek

17-10-2023 | Article

Sowing cover crops in maize with a drone

Bayer plans to bring direct-seeded rice to one million hectares, supporting two million early adopter-smallholder farmers and their families in India by 2030. - Photo: Bayer

17-10-2023 | News

Bayer introduces agricultural system for direct-seeded rice

MPT has built a 12-metre broadacre seeder that incorporates moisture-sensing tynes to automatically alter sowing depth according to soil conditions. - Photos: MPT

09-10-2023 | Article

A smart seeder that maps soil moisture and carbon

Responding to variation in the soil or in the crop is an important theme in precision agriculture. - Photos: Koos Groenewold

19-09-2023 | Article

Variable planting: simple technique, difficult to define results

More and more precision planters have electric drives. A number of manufacturers do not supply anything else, with others it is an option. - Photo: Martin Smits

30-03-2023 | Article

12 precision planters in a row; electric drive is dominant now

The new precision seeder the Lemken Azurit 9 at work. In front of the tractor is the Lemken Solitair 23 fertilizer tank. Photo: Peter Roek

21-03-2023 | Article

How precision planters have become faster, more exact and more versatile

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