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Carbon Robotics Disrupts Farming Industry with Autonomous Weeders
Carbon Robotics, an autonomous robotics company, today unveiled its third-generation autonomous weed elimination robots. The Autonomous Weeder leverages robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), and laser technology to safely and effectively drive through crop fields to identify, target and eliminate weeds. Unlike other weeding technologies, the robots utilize high-power lasers to eradicate weeds ...
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Groundswell: Small Robots and Tuckwells partner to deliver applications by exception
Small Robot Company (SRC), a British agritech start-up for sustainable farming, today demonstrates applications by exception at the Groundswell regenerative agriculture show, in partnership with Tuckwells, one of the UK’s leading John Deere dealerships, which has a focus on industry-leading design and technology. The first precision application of herbicides informed by robots to a UK ...
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Small Robot Co launches robot services to 50 farms
Salisbury, 6 June 2022 Small Robot Company (SRC), a British agritech start-up for sustainable farming, today announced the launch of its commercial Per Plant Farming robot services. Pilot trials this season have revealed herbicide applications can be cut by around 77% and fertiliser by 15%. Britain’s first fully autonomous crop-scanning service, it will roll out from this autumn to about 50 ...
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Westfield Firm Gives Farmers a Drone’S eye view of Crops
Farmer Dave Chance regularly walks his fields, scouting for problems ranging from pest infestations to nutritional shortcomings to weeds. It’s a practice followed by farmers since time immemorial. But Chance doesn’t do quite as much of it as he once did. These days, he’s got drones for that. Three years ago, he enlisted the services of Westfield-based agricultural monitoring ...
By Taranis
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Top 10 Horse Farming Tools You Can’t Live Without
Routine maintenance around the farm can be incredibly hard work - it can sometimes feel like you simply do not have enough time in the day. Continue reading for the top 10 horse farming tools that you can’t live without. 10 Horse Trailer Transporting horses - whether it be to a show, in the case of an emergency, or moving stables - is an important aspect of horse ownership. It is ...
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Small Robot Company £4m Crowdfunding Success: Public Back Sustainable Farming Future
Small Robot Company (SRC), a British agritech start-up for sustainable farming, raised £4 million in a successful equity crowdfunding campaign with Crowdcube. The company has now secured £11 million in funding to date. Over 2500 retail investors backed the campaign, with the initial target of £2m raised on the day of launch. The campaign then doubled the target, reaching the ...
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Poultry Feed Pellet Machine Equipment Reduces Feed Costs For Farmers
It is very important for poultry farmers to reduce costs and increase efficiency. The poultry feed pellet machine can use to process chicken, duck, and goose pellet feed. It is a happiness to eat healthy and hormone-free meat food, so the poultry feed pellet machine has long been favored by more farmers. Not only because the processed pellet feed can meet the nutritional needs of poultry, but ...
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Small Robot Company Launches New Crowdcube Fully Funded At £2 Million
Small Robot Company (SRC), a British agritech start-up for sustainable farming, today announced the launch of its latest Crowdcube equity crowdfunding campaign, which already successfully hit its target of £2 million at launch. SRC has now secured £9 million in funding to date. Agriculture is a $2.4 trillion industry, with the precision farming market a huge global opportunity for ...
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Tidy Planet exports Rocket Composter machinery into Australia
Organic waste and Waste-to-Energy solutions expert Tidy Planet is shipping its first ever Rocket Composter unit to Australia, where it will help a not-for-profit community farm to divert 200-300 kg of food and green wastes from landfill per day. The global partnership – facilitated by Tidy Planet’s exclusive Australian distributor, Eco Guardians – will see the A900 In-Vessel ...
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Oilseed rape seeding 2019 – widespread drought. Like last year, but different!
Since last year, it has been too dry and hot in large parts of Germany, although at the start of May, when the oilseed rape was flowering, it was cold and frosty, which means that pod-setting suffered. Then there was the heat wave at the end of June, right in the middle of ripening. Yields have often been between 35 and 40 dt/ha, so considerably better than last year and in the range of the ...
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Oilseed rape seeding in 2019: Increased rapeseed yields and positive price trends
At the moment, the question of whether the cultivation of rapeseed still turns out to be profitable is being intensely discussed in many cropping businesses, but it is precisely the current prospects for oilseed rape that do not look bad at all. In addition to the well-known strengths of rapeseed, such as the effects as a preceding crop, more stable yields and positive price trends are to be ...
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One Farm’s Spring Update: Herbs, Laying Hens, and Bed-Building
A few weeks ago I asked for you to share what you’ve been doing on your farms with me and I wanted to share this short story of what Bil and Alise of Under The Sun Herbs have been up to on their farm. Below follows their account of their farm projects this spring. It’s really starting to feel like we’re connecting the dots on our farm. In our second season on 10 acres near ...
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Poultry Feed Pellet Machine Reduces Feed Costs For Farmers
It is very important for poultry farmers to reduce costs and increase efficiency. The poultry feed pellet machine can use to process chicken, duck, and goose pellet feed. It is a happiness to eat healthy and hormone-free meat food, so the poultry feed pellet machine has long been favored by more farmers. Not only because the processed pellet feed can meet the nutritional needs of poultry, but ...
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We Have Rounding And Shaping Granulator Organic Fertilizer Machine On Sale
Rounding and shaping granulator has specially designed on the internal structure according to the process requirements and is effective special equipment for compound fertilizer. Zhengzhou Fusmar Machinery is a professional fertilizer granulator manufacturer, this article will introduce this machine in detail. Rounding And Shaping Granulator Introduction The organic fertilizer rounding granulator ...
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Organic Fertilizer Production Line Organic Fertilizer Fermentation Technology
Organic fertilizers contain organic matter, which can provide a variety of inorganic nutrients and organic nutrients for crops, as well as fertilizer and improve the soil. Most of them are farmed locally and are self-contained. Zhengzhou Fusmar Machinery is a professional fertilizer granulator machine manufacturer. The following describes the fermentation technology of organic fertilizers. The ...
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Main digital technologies in precision farming
We briefly covered some of the different forms of technologies that are used in precision farming. FIELD MONITORING Crop Health Monitoring (mostly based on NDVI) — Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) is a method that is used to determine the health of crops through the analysis of drone and satellite imagery. It looks at various wavelengths of light, both visible and ...
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Resource Management During The Growing Season
It’s not quite accurate to say that resource management is a balancing act. Why? Because our goal at Sentera is to tip the scales decidedly in your favor. The analysis you can do with data generated by our systems can help you make more informed decisions throughout the growing season and allocate resources more effectively. An agronomist from RDO Equipment in Arizona describes a few ...
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10 Agriculture Automation Companies Shaping the Future of Farming
Automation and robotics are changing the face of agriculture at an alarming pace. The advantages of agriculture automation are apparent: prices are reduced for consumers, the environmental footprint of farming is significantly reduced, and efficiently reduces labor costs across the board. From self-driving tractors to weeding robots and controlled environment agriculture, agriculture automation ...
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Smart Technology And Digital Solutions Drive The Agenda Of The First European Edition Of Gfia In The Netherlands
The first European edition of the Global Forum for Innovations in Agriculture, GFIA Europe, welcomed an international audience to the Netherlands where smart technology and digital solutions drove the agenda as the accelerators to the future of sustainable agricultural innovations. As the world’s largest showcase of sustainable agriculture innovations, GFIA Europe saw collaboration between ...
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Walki develops new biodegradable mulching paper
Walki has developed a new fibre-based soil mulching solution that is completely biodegradable. This organic mulch type, which is used for weed control and to optimise soil conditions and crop yield, is the first of its kind on the market. Walki, a leading global producer of technical laminates and protective packaging materials, has developed the first-ever organic mulching solution that is ...
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