Forget CES, The World Ag Expo Is The Hottest Tech Trade Show
Motherboard visits one of the world’s biggest farming exhibitions to find more gadgets than grain. Continue reading Forget CES, The World Ag Expo Is The Hottest Tech Trade Show
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Sixty Percent of the World’s Primates Are Threatened with Extinction
A study authored by 31 leading experts details all the ways we’re putting our closest relatives at risk. Continue reading Sixty Percent of the World’s Primates Are Threatened with Extinction
This Giant Vertical Farming Robot Is Coming For Your Crops
It’s designed to grow grains for livestock while saving farmers money on labor. But that means it’s also coming for some human jobs. Continue reading This Giant Vertical Farming Robot Is Coming For Your Crops
Meet the Farm Hackers Working to Make Growing Food More Efficient
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are working out ways to make the farm of the future as efficient as possible. Continue reading Meet the Farm Hackers Working to Make Growing Food More Efficient
OpenAg Is A Personal Food Computer
When a device that calls itself a personal food computer lands in your timeline, what image springs to mind? A cloud-connected diet aid perhaps, advertised on TV infomercials by improbably fit-looking Californian ladies crediting all their health to a palm-sized unit that can be yours for only 199 dollars. Fortunately that proved not to be the case, and on further reading our timeline story was revealed to be about a computerized farming device.
The OpenAg Food Computer from the MIT Media Lab Open Agriculture Initiative bills itself as:
“a controlled-environment agriculture technology platform that uses robotic systems to control and
Watch This Very Gentle Robot Pick Out A Ripe Tomato
Scientists have made a hand that is almost as sensitive as a human’s. Continue reading Watch This Very Gentle Robot Pick Out A Ripe Tomato
Here’s More Evidence Americans Don’t Know What They Should Be Eating
From organic food to GM crops, we’re pretty split…but when you consult the science, it’s no wonder we’re so confused. Continue reading Here’s More Evidence Americans Don’t Know What They Should Be Eating
Retrotechtacular: Horseless Farming With The Ford Model B
Does everyone watch a load of videos on YouTube that are somewhat on the unadmissibly geeky side? In my case I might not care to admit that I have a lot of videos featuring tractors in my timeline. The mighty Russian Kirovets hauling loads through the impossible terrain of the taiga, tiny overloaded 2WD tractors in India pulling wheelies, and JCB Fastracs tearing around the British Fenland. You can take the girl off the farm, but you can’t take the farm out of the girl.
So my recommendations have something of an agricultural flavor. Like the video below the break, …read more
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When Veterans Come Home, Many End up on the Farm
Can farming help veterans heal? Continue reading When Veterans Come Home, Many End up on the Farm
Peru Keeps Thousands of Potato Seeds in an Earthquake-Proof Vault
Seed banks are often overlooked, but they’re an essential part of preserving food security. Continue reading Peru Keeps Thousands of Potato Seeds in an Earthquake-Proof Vault