365FarmNet, Aarhus University, AGCO, AgroIntelli, CNH Industrial, GRIMME, Kverneland, and Wageningen University and Research have announced important steps forward towards real interoperability between farm machines, sensors and software. Interoperability is a key issue in the advancement of digital farming. The Internet of Things (IoT) has great potential to increase the…
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SOYL, the precision farming specialist, has launched its most ambitious version of MySOYL to date. MySOYL is SOYL’s web-based management tool which enables growers to view and analyse their precision data and use it to make business decisions. It is accessed through parent company Frontier Agriculture’s MyFarm online platform. This…
Agrifac has redesigned its Condor Endurance self-propelled sprayer, which was first launched in 2015. The new Condor Endurance II comes to market after the original-series machines have completed more than 7.5 million hectares. The Dutch manufacturer has been working closely with its customers, and their feedback, combined with the company’s…
Rezatec, the leading provider of geospatial data analytics to the Infrastructure, Forestry and Agribusiness sectors, has announced completion of the second phase of a £2m financing round. Caphaven Partners led completion of the two-stage round with support from existing investors Run Capital and new investor Newable Private Investing (“NPI”) through…
New Holland Agriculture is partnering with E. & J. Gallo Winery, the largest family-owned winery in the world, and loyal customer of New Holland specialty tractors, in a pilot project testing its NHDrive autonomous technology applied to T4.110F vineyard tractors. This collaborative pilot program is focused on gathering agronomic and…
The use of drone technology for farming and land management is becoming increasingly relevant and widespread. On the farm, drones provide a valuable new technology for surveying, monitoring and mapping with extra features in development for other functions coming fast over the horizon. But new technology brings with it new…
Since revealing the autonomous concept vehicle, Case IH has been evolving the technology and further defining automation and autonomy as it relates to agriculture, and has been in discussions with customers around the world to study how this technology can be implemented for maximum benefit in their operations. Now, through…
Valtra’s new armrest and user interface SmartTouch has won the iF Design Award, one of the world’s most prestigious design awards. This year over 6400 designs from 54 countries participated in the competition. The winners were picked by an international jury of 63 experts. “SmartTouch has now won both the…
The ground-breaking Hands Free Hectare (HFHa) project, run by Harper Adams University and Precision Decisions, which was the first in the world to plant, tend and harvest a crop with only autonomous vehicles and drones, is coming to Cereals. The team have a plot of winter barley in the agronomy…
Fresh phosphate in the early winter or spring can increase wheat yields by as much as 1t/ha even where soil P indices are more than adequate. But it must be in the most available form. This is the finding of several years of Agrii research on different soil types across…