Fertiliser availability this season will depend not only on global production, but on the ability of the supply chain to move product through ports, storage, processing and transport networks in time for spring applications. That is the message from the Farming Fertiliser Stakeholder Group, which is encouraging farmers to begin…
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UK agricultural engineers involved in robotics, automation, sensing and intelligent machinery have a significant new funding opportunity through the Farming Futures R&D Fund: Automation and Robotics Round 2. Defra, working with Innovate UK, is making up to £20 million available for collaborative industrial research projects developing ambitious automation and robotics…
CLAAS is introducing a new grain nutrient analysis system for its Lexion combine harvesters, designed to help UK farmers and contractors measure crop quality and yield potential in real time. The NUTRIMETER GRAIN will be available from model year 2026 and uses transmissive near-infrared (NIR) sensor technology to assess grain…
A pioneering farm-led project aimed at transforming nitrogen management in UK arable farming has officially launched in Yorkshire, bringing cutting-edge real-time soil nutrient monitoring technology directly into farmers’ fields. The SMART (Soil Monitoring for Adaptive Resource Targeting) project, funded through Innovate UK’s Farming Innovation Programme: ADOPT, officially commenced this month…
Few manufacturers can demonstrate the evolution of harvesting technology quite as effectively as CLAAS did in Suffolk recently, where a restored 1968 SENATOR worked alongside both a 1953 CLAAS SF and a current TRION 720. The occasion celebrated the return to work of the 200,000th CLAAS combine ever produced—a machine…
John Deere has been awarded the Award of Merit for New Innovation at the 2026 Royal Welsh Show. The award recognises the innovation with the greatest potential to improve agriculture in Wales, with John Deere receiving this achievement for the new Weave Automation technology on the V452R Round Baler. John…
Soil health is one of farming’s biggest talking points, with declining organic matter often blamed on modern systems and years of artificial fertiliser use, especially nitrogen. But Mark Tucker, agronomist and Yara’s Food Chain Business Manager for Europe, argues that nitrogen and soil health should be seen as complementary, not…
BERNBURG, Germany – Team Acorn from Osnabrück University has won the Field Robot Event 2026, an international competition showcasing the latest developments in autonomous agricultural robotics and field automation. Held alongside DLG Feldtage from 16–18 June in Bernburg, Germany, the event brought together 16 teams from 10 countries to test self-developed…
Upcycled Plant Power (UPP) has partnered with East of Scotland Growers (ESG) to deploy UPP’s automated selective harvesting technology across ESG farms and secure a reliable supply of broccoli biomass for ingredient production. UPP is a pioneering UK food-tech company creating sustainable, hypoallergenic vegetarian protein products and fibre ingredients from…
The future of agronomy is not defined by a single new technology but by how these technologies come together to be utilised by agronomists and farmers. That is the essence of Agrii’s vision for how agronomy will be delivered, which they’ve titled the Smart Connected Farm and is detailed in…