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…
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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…
Case IH has received two Foglia d’Oro (Golden prize for innovation) at Fieragricola 2018, for its new AFS AccuTurn automated headland turning system, and the new Maxxum Multicontroller with ActiveDrive 8 semi-powershift transmission. The company also won two Foglia d´Argento (Silver prize for innovation) in recognition of the technical innovation…
With JDLink connectivity as standard, the R4050i leads the field says John Deere. Demonstrations at the event will show both Wireless Data transfer and Remote Display Access. Visit the demo and see for yourself, the extraordinary 36m carbon fibre boom and new TerrainCommand Pro boom controls. The PowrSpray solution system…
CNH Industrial and The Climate Corporation, a subsidiary of Monsanto Company, have announced a new partnership that will extend and develop a portfolio of data sharing capabilities to help farmers with real-time agronomic visualization and decision-making solutions. Case IH and New Holland Agriculture, the global agricultural brands of CNH Industrial,…
A new facility to assist advances in crop science is taking shape in the Norfolk countryside. The field experimental station at Church Farm, Bawburgh, will allow scientists at the John Innes Centre to carry out ground-breaking research in crop improvements. Bringing together lab and field research in one location will…
Precision crop production innovator, SOYL is planning the UK’s largest ever variable rate nitrogen trial during spring 2018. The trial is being managed in partnership with parent company Frontier Agriculture’s 3DThinking research and development trials team. “Significant evidence to support the use of variable rate nitrogen already exists based on…