René Koerhuis

Laser weeding is currently an extremely hot topic with farmers, growers and contractors across the world. Literally as well, as the temperatures add up significantly.Laser beams are already part of everyday life such as cutting metal sheets, measuring distances, levelling land and correcting eye vision. We trust the technology without thinking twice. Yet when it comes to laser weeding, it still feels like a black box: mystical, (over) hyped and difficult to evaluate objectively. Future Farming w

Farm-ING adds spot spraying and laser weeding to its AI-supported range, giving farmers 3 selective weed control options from €65,000.

The WeSee setup from German company DynamoBot initially appears to be ‘yet another new spot spraying system'. Until a number of distinctive features become apparent.

The DLG Feldtage did not feature many machine premieres, but fertiliser spreader manufacturer Rauch did use the event to show a new machine.

Under tropical conditions, 13,400 visitors recently attended the latest edition of DLG Feldtage in Bernburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

20 Australian vegetable and onion growers spent 10 days in the UK and the Netherlands to see how manufacturers and growers incorporate automation and robotics on commercial farms.

The popularity of task maps for site-specific variable-rate fertiliser spreading and drilling is still limited. That is what technology suppliers and crop advisers say. Why is that? Insufficient returns, technical challenges? This is what is going on. Fewer than 10% of Dutch arable farmers/growers, contractors and livestock farmers use a task map to vary the fertiliser application rate and/or seed rate. That is the conclusion after a survey among machinery manufacturers, importers and several

Variable-rate application has been available for years, yet adoption remains limited on many arable farms. Interviews with machinery manufacturers, precision farming specialists and crop advisers show that the barriers are rarely technical alone. Farm economics, field characteristics, software complexity and uncertain returns continue to slow the uptake of prescription maps for seeding and fertiliser application. Fewer than 10% of Dutch arable farmers/growers, contractors and livestock farmers

For years, the autonomous tractor has been a topic of conversation in agriculture, but growers have had limited options.

AgXeed can now make existing tractors and machines autonomous with VCU and TCU retrofit kits. This is based on the approach and philosophy familiar from field robots.