Last week a US court held Monsanto’s glyphosate responsible for causing cancer in a ground keeper, awarding $289M of damages. This is a critical verdict in that it demonstrates that glyphosate – as one of the most popular non-selective herbicides worldwide- is on shaky ground. Indeed, for some time now,…
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The Hands Free Hectare (HFHa) team has successfully harvested their second crop using their autonomous combine harvester and achieved unloading on the move for the first time with their ISEKI tractor. The world-first project, run by Harper Adams University and Precision Decisions, returned in November of last year after receiving…
The government is to consult on new measures to prevent the misuse of drones, including on-the-spot fines and the ability to seize them if necessary. The new measures are intended to ensure drones are being used safely in a market set to grow rapidly over the next decade. Drones have…
The National Centre for Precision Farming (NCPF) at Harper Adams University and XAG, one of the world’s largest drone and robot company, have recently formed a strategic academic and research partnership. XAG, a Chinese company which was founded in 2007, focuses on agricultural automation and research and development of unmanned…
UK winter barley growers considering switching to a hybrid variety can use the “Hybrid Barley Calculator” to work out their potential return on investment when compared to a conventional variety, from Syngenta. Recently the cost of conventional barley seed has increased whilst the hybrid seed cost remains stable, this is…
A NEW smartphone and tablet application called Farm Service Manager is set to modernise the recording of service and maintenance history for farm equipment and vehicles, eliminating the need to keep paper records. Farm Service Manager is the idea of Australian farmer David Ricardo. It is a multi-user app which…
A new global partnership between Argo Tractors and Topcon Agriculture, one of the world’s leading precision farming technology companies, is streamlining the selection, purchase and installation of satellite guidance and related products on McCormick tractors. The agreement ensures that the tractors assembled in Argo’s factories are correctly equipped and configured…
New Holland’s new CR Revelation combine range takes automation to a new level with the award-winning IntelliSense system and introduces a host of improvements that further consolidates the supremacy of the world’s highest capacity combine. Lars Skjoldager Sørensen, Head of Harvesting Product Line, said: “The CR Revelation combine is once…
Case IH is launching three new 2500 series Axial-Flow combines for next year. The new combines feature a number of new automated features designed to allow operators to more easily maximise machine performance in terms of crop throughput and quality and they will replace the existing 7240, 8240 and 9240…
Earth observation data from satellites and drones promise support for hard-pressed farmers in Colombia who are seeking to improve the viability of the country’s agriculture. An ambitious collaboration project to harness space technology and bring sustainable productivity to rice and oil palm farmers in Colombia entered a crucial phase this…