Technology

Devising a method for the precision application of fungicides and biopesticides is being investigated in a newly commissioned project funded by Innovate UK.

Following a turbulent year for most manufacturer’s Fendt has claimed in a recent press conference, it is in a good position to push forward its plans on a global scale.

As the industry prepares for the new Environmental Land Management scheme (ELMs), existing farm management software (FMS) data could help farmers to get ahead in preparing for the transition. 

With the Government’s decision on post-Brexit gene editing (GE) regulation due to be announced any day now, Prof Wendy Harwood of the John Innes Centre (JIC) outlined some of the opportunities the technology could bring.

This year’s Cereals Event saw more robots on display than ever before, but Harper Adams University researchers say that the commercialisation of crop robots in Europe is being stymied by regulation.

Bayer has announced the European launch of its global Carbon Initiative. Five farmers from the UK and more than 20 others from across Europe will be working with Bayer to investigate how to decarbonise the food value chain.

The first production autonomous robotic tractor has arrived in the UK. Designed, developed and built in Denmark, the Agrointelli Robotti has been purchased by Home Farm Nacton in Suffolk, a member of Fram Farmers co-

SCIENTISTS have refined a transformational process that allows nitrate to be captured from drinking water for use in agriculture as a liquid fertiliser.

The John Innes Centre has called for urgent investment in new research tools to address major global losses of wheat crops which cost £22 billion per year.

Claas has announced it has started to collaborate with and invest in the Dutch start-up company AgXeed, as it look to offer customers autonomous solutions.