Written by Chris Fellows based on information from AgroIntelli After six years of intensive work, the new generation of Robotti, the autonomous implement carrier, celebrated its world premiere at Agritechnica last year amongst as lot of other robot technology. Built by Denmark’s AgroIntelli, it’s among the first autonomous implement carriers of its kind on the …
Written by Malene Conlong from the German Agricultural Society (DLG) The DLG Digital robot webinar explored mechanical weeding as alternative to herbicide: Field requirements, monitoring, wear parts, solar power and remote service. As farmers around the world face challenges in the use of herbicides in crop production, autonomous robot, capable of mechanical weeding on the …
Field Robots Meet Farmers’ Mechanical Weeding Needs During The Corona Pandemic Read More »
Contributed by Ralph Early, Independent Food Scientist and Food EthicistRalph Early discusses the historical and current use of crop protection products in this second of a two-part article(Page 61 Direct Driller Magazine Issue 6), and focuses on the use of herbicides and insecticides The first part of this two-part article explored something of the history …
Crop Protection Products The Modern Farmers’ Toolkit, Part 2 Read More »
After successfully completing the multi-year research project MARS (Mobile Agricultural Robot Swarms) in collaboration with the Ulm University of Applied Sciences and the EU research funding, AGCO and Fendt decided to develop the robot project up to series-production readiness for the Fendt brand. The entire system, including small robots operating in swarms and a cloud-based …
XAVER: Robot System For Planting And Accurate Documentation Read More »
Horsch, a Return to Direct SeedingOriginally written by Frédéric Thomas and published in TCS in August 2015 While this may be a surprise many, Michael Horsch is first and foremost a farmer, not a designer and manufacturer of agricultural machinery. The opening of East Germany after the fall of the Wall in 1989 allowed him …
Originally written by Frédéric Thomas – and published in TCS Magazine in August 2013 Cutting with water Ultra High Pressure (UHP) technology is rapidly developing in the industrial world. We appreciate its ability to quickly and cleanly cut virtually anything. In agriculture, the need to precisely cut is just as much as requirement and in …
