Machinery

At Amazone, the topic of autonomous agricultural machinery has been at the forefront ever since the BoniRob project was launched together with Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences and Robert Bosch GmbH in 2008. The BoniRob field robot was a milestone in robotics and way ahead of its time. Many technological and legal questions still had […]

Back in issue one of direct driller Mike Donovan of Practical Farm Ideas wrote about our budget no-till drill in his article “How to start drilling for 8k”. The drill had been bought and modified at the time to run along our John Deere 750a, partly to increase capacity to cope with a seemingly ever

If you are serious about reducing soil movement to reduce costs in fuel and labour without reducing yield through compaction what are your options, and how do you ‘dip your toe’ without financial commitment? “Just looking thanks” is the phrase while on a manufactures show stand whilst trying to form your own opinion. How do

COMPLETE TYRE PRESSURE SOLUTIONSWritten by Chris Dolman from Michelin UK Michelin is introducing its latest agricultural tyre technology into the UK with the launch of Zen@Terra for high-powered tractors – enabling farmers to easily adjust tyre pressures for heavy road and field work. Designed specifically for fitment in combination with a central tyre inflation system

In 2017 the Rodale Institute talked about the use of crimper rollers in organic no-till. They said: “In conventional systems, farmers can practice no-till by using chemical herbicides to kill cover crops before the next planting. Organic no-till, on the other hand, uses no synthetic inputs. Instead, small-scale organic no-till farmers use hand tools, like

We first saw this at Agritechnica 2019 when we met the team from Continental to understand their approach to providing agricultural robots to farmers Continental believes the future may well rest with small driverless robots and the company has developed an advanced and flexible system. This approach as led to Contandino, a robot platform that

Written by Dr Nicola Cannon, Associate Professor of Agriculture Introduction Herbicide resistance has become a major challenge to UK arable production and is forcing farms to rethink cropping choices and in some cases is even leading to fallowing instead of cropping to try and regain control of challenging weeds. The problem of herbicide resistance has

The likely ban on glyphosate and other chemicals has steered this German manufacturer to look at some methods used by organic growers – and then improve on them At this year’s Agritechnica Michael Horsch, farmer and founder of the well-known German farm machinery company, introduced the concept of a dual or hybrid approach to crop

Agritechnica, as always, is the place to see everything that farming has to offer from around the world. You come across stands way bigger than anything you would see other shows and yet you have never even heard of the brand as they don’t sell in the UK or Europe yet as they “haven’t seen

All that glitters is not gold. Harry Henderson, AHDB Technical Knowledge Exchange Managerdiscusses the latest thinking in machinery costings. With all the debates held at Monitor Farm meetings, which rumbled on about machinery costs a couple of spin-off debates came to fruition. A recent visit to Scotland found me standing in front of farmers talking