Hummingbird Technologies has signed an agreement with Agrovista to provide a digital platform and remote sensing offering that complements existing agronomic services, reports Potato News Today. Using satellite data captured from arable fields, Hummingbird Technologies will create advanced crop...

The Global Ag Tech Initiative is looking for select correspondents in key parts of the world to help augment the work of our editorial team this year.

SoilEssentials Ltd., the award-winning precision farming solutions pioneers, based in Angus, Scotland, will be showcasing an innovative new product for potato growers at the forthcoming BP2019, the potato industry event, reports PotatoPro. Called Tuberzone, this new-to-the-market innovation cleverly tracks and...

The 'Vegebot' is a vegetable-picking robot that uses machine learning to identify and harvest a commonplace, but challenging, agricultural crop, according to an article at FreshPlaza. The bot was developed by a team at the University of Cambridge, was...

https://youtu.be/8xbyvIclbp8 In this episode of Precision Perspectives, Jess Lowenberg-DeBoer of Harper Adams University in the U.K. discusses current research initiatives at the school, and makes the case for the value of robotics in grain applications....

U.K. online supermarket Ocado wants to pick and pack every one of its 55,000 items that customers can order and has worked with the Horizon 2020-funded SOMA project to develop robotic 'soft hands', according to an article at FreshPlaza.com. This...

Raspberry-picking robots are on the horizon, writes May Hanbury at Business Insider. A new robot being developed by Fieldwork Robotics, a spin-out company from Plymouth University, could let farmers pick more than 25,000 raspberries a day. The robot was...

The warm spring weather has seen drills out in force around the country, with an increasing number of farmers adopting precision drilling techniques, writes Ken Fletcher at The Scottish Farmer. But, for those with a range of different equipment...

Soft fruit growers in the U.K. look set to benefit from new commercial-scale water saving research which is being developed to improve precision irrigation and fertigation techniques, reports FreshPlaza. Farm levy board AHDB is to co-fund the Water Efficient...

'Swarm robots' – small, simple and inexpensive machinery – could reverse the trend in agriculture towards ever bigger machines, an agri-tech expert has said, according to an article at Farming UK. These little workers could have benefits such as...

Farmers are now able to access all their precision farming needs in one place – regardless of the brands in their machinery fleet – following the introduction of Trimble’s Vantage network to the U.K., writes Ken Fletcher on TheScottishFarmer.co.uk. This...

Yellow Vest protesters interrupt a presentation by Thomas Engel of John Deere during the third annual International Forum of International Robotics (FIRA) in Toulouse, France. The unexpected presence of Yellow Vest (gilets jaunes) protestors at the...

The third International Forum of Agricultural Robotics (FIRA) in Toulouse, France offered an ideal venue for the robotics industry to showcase its latest technology — and prove its value. In a clear sign that agriculture’s continuing...

Simon Blackmore: “Agricultural robots are here. They are moving from academia into the commercial sector." The market for agricultural robotics market is small but burgeoning, and their impact is likely to be quite a bit more...

It's harvest season in many parts of the world, but on one farm in the United Kingdom, robots — not humans — are doing all the heavy lifting, writes Tereza Pultarova on LiveScience.com. At Hands Free Hectare, an experimental farm...

"Accurate farming" would be more apt than ‘precision agriculture’ to describe this agricultural practice, says professor Simon Blackmore of Harper Adams University in the U.K. in an article on the Rural News website. Blackmore, head of engineering at this agricultural...

Harper Adams University staff, supported and led by precision farming specialist Precision Decisions, are attempting to grow and harvest a hectare of cereal crops — all without stepping a foot into the field, according to an article on FGInsight.com. The...

Precision ag, or precision farming as it is more commonly referred to, has seen a sharp increase in interest and uptake in the last few years in the UK. The drivers behind this come from a number of sources,...

Precision ag, or precision farming as it is more commonly referred to, has seen a sharp increase in interest and uptake in the last few years in the U.K.. The drivers behind this come from a number of sources,...