Hi-Spec Engineering has extended its range of slurry application equipment with the introduction of a new chassis mounted Dribble BarThis comes at a time when the value of slurry as a source of nitrogen and other nutrients has been brought sharply into focus following the recent hike in price for…
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Agricultural drone technology specialist Drone Ag has secured £650,000 of equity funding from 934 investors and a further £145,000 grant from Innovate UK to grow its business and develop new crop scouting technology “This is the largest amount of funding we have secured as a company to date, with both…
Concern over the need to show ‘additionality’ to gain incentives is holding farmers back.Should the agri-tech industry take the lead and develop a set of environmental standards to support the transition to net zero agriculture? This would create an evidence-base of good practice for retailers and consumers and underpin a movement…
New Holland Agriculture North America has announced the U.S. launch of the world’s first production T6 Methane Power tractorThe launch is a culmination of a multiyear development project to create and bring to market a tractor line-up that furthers the use of more sustainable fuel sources in U.S. agriculture “The…
Crop Storage specialists Martin Lishman Ltd believe that promoting best storage practice plays an important role in reducing energy consumption and food wasteTheir award-winning Barn Owl Wireless system has helped farmers throughout the UK and beyond optimise their crop storage conditions to achieve these two aims and retain a higher-quality…
Provides Deere with the vertical integration necessary to efficiently design vehicles and powertrains around superior immersion-cooled, high-density battery technologyLeverages Kreisel’s battery-buffered charging technology to build out infrastructure to support global customersAligns with Deere’s electrification and sustainability goals Deere & Company has signed a definitive agreement to acquire majority ownership in Kreisel Electric,…
A start-up company has unveiled ambitious plans for a new zero-emissions power source for conventional farm tractorsAtomictractor, founded by Campbell Scott, a former senior executive with global agricultural equipment firm AGCO and its brand Massey Ferguson, has completed a feasibility study with Aston University in Birmingham, UK looking at low…
HorschConnect is a new product family from HORSCH that aims to make the exchange of data between machine and customer as efficient as possible, as well as to link customer, dealer and HORSCH in a better wayWhether locating the current position of the machine in the field or controlling a…
Seattle-based Carbon Robotics has launched its latest 2022 LaserWeeder implement, which is an autonomous, laser-weeding robot that is pulled behind a tractor with a three-point linkage This new machine is an adaptation of its original self-driving autonomous Laserweeder, and is suitable for precise weed control in large-scale specialty row crops.…
Growers throughout the UK must adopt a range of chemical and non-chemical strategies to protect cereals from the increasingly problematic threat of wild oats this springThat is the advice from ADAMA’s herbicide technical specialist, Dr Bill Lankford, who also urges spray operators to be extra diligent when treating advanced crops…