How Advancements in Farm Equipment will Improve Productivity
Every two years, the engineers from around the world who design agricultural machinery attend a series of events in Hannover, Germany, despite the inevitably grey, chilly weather, writes John Schueller at Growing Produce. In November, the latest iteration of the event was held as the engineers came together for a technical engineering conference (limited to 1,100 attendees). The event, Agritechnica, also provides opportunities for the worldwide staffs of multinational companies to meet, meetings of academic experts, and to join with farmers to be among the 450,000 attendees at the world’s largest farm machinery show.
There was optimism among those gathered at the event. Feeding an ever-increasing world population, which demands a more varied diet produced in an economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable manner, is certainly very challenging. But some technologies are rapidly advancing to partially help with this task.
Electrification and Digitalization
The two big categories that continue to capture the most interest at Agritechnica were advances in electrification and digitalization. There are more efforts and more progress in these areas, sometimes in combination. Some concepts are ready for production and some will require further research, development, and commercialization.
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