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Farm Machinery REPORT NOVEMBER 2013 A great entry filled the sale ground in most sections and with one of the biggest crowds in attendance we’ve seen in many a month, the initial signs looked promising. And such favourable indicators did translate into a reasonable sale. For sure, it wasn’t as bullish as our spring sales […]
Robot farm workers take to the fields To feed a growing population, we will need to double food production by 2050 – yet fewer people want to work the land. One solution could be robotic labour. Here are six systems, real and imagined, which could help farmers of the future. Hortibot Created by Rasmus Jørgensen […]
Combine + grain cart = Tribine The introduction of the grain cart forever changed harvesting operations across the country. Ben Dillon, an Indiana farmer, is attempting to uproot again the traditional harvesting operation by introducing the Tribine. The Tribine unites the two historic functions of the combine (the binder and the stationary threshing machine) with […]
AgBot a weed warrior ROBOTICS professor Gordon Wyeth thinks robots will go a long way toward making Australian farming more globally competitive. Professor Wyeth, head of Queensland University of Technology’s world-class robotics department, last month announced the AgBot, a prototype lightweight, golf buggy-sized robot designed to reduce the environmental impact of weeding. “It can navigate […]
Soucy Track unveils the S-TECH 800 Apr. 17, 2013, Drummondville, QC – Soucy International Inc. has launched a new product in its line of Soucy Track agricultural track systems: the S-TECH 800, designed for high-power tractors. The S-TECH 800 is a brand new platform with a central geometry developed using castings, preventing the accumulation of […]
Rotary cultivator 2FK160 (Agribusiness Farm Machinery) Robust and solid PTO driven rotary ridger, for making nice and firm potato ridges. The machine is equipped with a 1000 rpm PTO gearbox and can be used for potato ridges as well as carrot rows can be formed. The machine is equipped with a chain drive from one […]
Computer vision based, guidance system for non-chemical weed control This project was concerned with reducing agrochemical inputs through the use of inter-row cultivation to control weeds. This practice goes back to Jethro Tull’s invention of the seed drill in the 18th Century. However, the advent of herbicides all but eliminated inter-row hoeing in the UK. […]
Autonomous Crop Treatment Vehicle One way to reduce agrochemical use is through spatially selective operation; a map of the variability within a field is used to decide how to selectively treat areas of typically 5 m by 5 m resolution from a tractor equipped with GPS. We proposed an alternative but complementary approach based upon […]
Civics Turn Out To Honoure Gardford Farm Machinery In Agribusiness Garford Farm Machinery were officially honoured with the Queen’s Award for Enterprise, in the Innovation category, on Tuesday this week (7th September) in a full civic ceremony at their premises in Deeping St James. Garford were independently judged a worthy winner of the award, which […]
Gujarat farmers set to go Hi-Tech with the help of Israeli Green tech A world-class agriculture research and high-tech farming training institute is to be set up in Gujarat in collaboration with Israel government. This was stated by chief minister Narendra Modi while inaugurating a national convention on ‘The next frontier of agri-business and technology’ at Mahatma Mandir […]
Robocrop: on-farm robots AS Andrew Bate’s farm machinery got bigger and bigger over the past decade, the machines that occupied his thoughts in the tractor cab got smaller and smaller. As a result, the Queensland farmer, “Bendee”, Emerald, is now talking with some confidence of a future broadacre farming system run by “swarms” of robotic […]
King of the Cotton Pickers You’re probably wearing something cotton-y right now. Cotton is fairly annoying to harvest. Mechanization was a quantum leap for the cotton industry, moving it away from archaic methods used since the days of slavery. This machine is the next step forward. Up until World War II, cotton harvesting in the […]
Wall-E-Like Farming Robots Could Replace Undocumented Workers and Save the US Billions Despite advancements in mechanization within US agriculture, some menial jobs are still best left to human workers. Problem is, federal crackdowns on undocumented laborers have decimated that workforce. The Harvester automaton could provide a cheap, readily available labor force without the threat of […]
Lettuce Gaze Upon the Future of Agriculture Florida has its oranges, Georgia has its peaches, and California has its lettuce. These leafy greens are the Golden State’s biggest vegetable crop, bringing in $1.6 billion annually. Problem is, they require a lot of attention to raise properly. Historically, California has relied of its abundant, affordable work […]