Last week I was at an event where inspiring farmers – in this case Nick Down, David Miller, and Nik Renison – showcased, with the pictures to prove it, some of the brilliant innovations they have pioneered on their farms. And they really were inspiring, with a palpable buzz in the full-house audience as they …
In the third part of our series on sap analysis, Mike Abram learns how to interpret the results. You’ve taken your leaf sample, packaged it up and sent it to the Netherlands, and now the results have landed in your inbox. There’s a whole ray of bars and numbers for just about every nutrient you …
By Laura Nolan and Cliona Howie, Foundation Earth With sustainability being placed higher and higher on consumers’ agendas, people are turning to high-emitting industries to ask how they are playing their part in reducing environmental impacts on the planet. The food industry alone accounts for one third of emissions globally – and with population rising, …
Sustainable food: how can ecolabels help transform entire value chains? Read More »
A major milestone for our small robots: our Tom monitoring robots will be set to work this Autumn. 50 farms will become home to our sustainable robots, delivering our first services for Per Plant Farming: applications by exception. These autonomous scanning robots will help farmers make informed decisions on how to take action, cutting herbicides …
Small Robot Co launches robot services to 50 farms this autumn Read More »
This paper suggests a new way of assessing the environmental impacts of supermarket food. Plant-based foods have the lowest environmental impacts. More nutritious foods are often more sustainable By University of Oxford News Team A study estimating the environmental impact of 57,000 food products in the UK and Ireland has been published by an Oxford-led research …
Environmental impact of 57,000 multi-ingredient processed foods revealed Read More »
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 …
