Trialling the 'game changing' potential of precision-bred crops

Dyson Farming considers innovation and sustainability to be top of its agenda which is why it has joined forces with precision-bred crop initiative PROBITY. Farmers Guardian reports

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Trialling the 'game changing' potential of precision-bred crops

Tucked away at Dyson Farming's Research Innovation Farm, a prototype robot extends an arm and scans the strawberry crop in front of it before plucking a single fruit from its stalk. It is a painfully slow...

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