Väderstad Proceed has won the Farm Machine 2022 award in the seeders and planters category, previously known as “Machine of the year” The Farm Machine 2022 award is presented by a jury of agricultural journalists from over a dozen countries all over Europe. “We are very proud to win this…
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Raven Industries, Inc. has announced the launch of OMNiPOWER™ 3200, the latest model of its autonomous power platformThe company is showcasing OMNiPOWER™ 3200 at Commodity Classic, one of the most influential farmer-led and farmer-focused shows in the United States OMNiPOWER™ gives ag professionals the ability to perform multiple farming operations…
The LightWeeder is a world-first eye-safe, herbicide-free, carbon neutral, commercially viable weeding system delivered by lightweight autonomous field robots via UK agri-robotics company and Agri-EPI Centre member, Earth Rover The LightWeeding technology uses semiconductor LEDs to solve key technical, safety and commercialisation challenges faced by laser-based weeding systems. The LightWeeder…
Combined Powers is the name of a joined Krone Lemken project and design concept – the autonomous ‘process unit’ that consists of a drive unit and various implementsAfter passing trials in cultivating, ploughing, sowing, mowing, tedding and raking last year,the innovative concept will be integrated in the well-proven forage harvesting and…
Agri-EPI has released an industry paper in collaboration with stakeholders from across the agri-tech sector to offer recommendations around the future development of autonomous agricultural solutions The development and utilisation of autonomous vehicles and artificial intelligence to grow and harvest food is gathering traction across the agriculture sector. Automation has…
New advice for in-furrow application of Amistar during potato planting will achieve a more complete zone of protection around the mother tuber when using modern high-speed belt planters, advises Syngenta Application Specialist, Harry Fordham. Speaking at this season’s Syngenta Potato Science Seed & Soil Pathogen webinar, he pointed modern planters…
A whole farm approach to Agroecological farming practices is the premise of the Helix Agroecology Farm hosted by Harry Heath of Whitley Manor Farm, Newport, Shropshire. As an industry we are still not in a position to be able to clearly define the benefits of many of the practices or…
HORSCH has developed ‘tilted’ sprayer nozzles caps for use in band application and improved wetting in ridge cropsTwo variants are offered: a grey nozzle with 17.5 degree angle for a 10cm tilt and a red nozzle with 8.75 degree angle for a 5cm tilt Using a combination of straight and…
A successful ‘pre-accelerator’ programme aimed at boosting sapling agri-tech and agri-food start-ups is set to return this Spring Cultivate 2.0, run by Harper Adams University in partnership with Barclays Eagle Labs, follows the first successful year of the programme delivered by the partnership. This saw agri-tech and agri-food businesses from…
With small to medium size enterprises (SMEs) hacked every 19 seconds[1], Naq Cyber Co-Founder and CEO, Nadia Kadhim, warns that poorly protected farming businesses need to take the threat of cyberattacks seriously due to the damaging follow-on effects a compromised business can have on the rest of the supply chain …