Collaborate Disseminate
Chinese researchers are reporting that applying an electric field to pea plants increased yields. This process — known as electroculture — has been tested multiple times, but in each case …read more Continue reading Better Farming Through Electricity
We’ve seen a good many indoor growing systems over the years, aimed at supplying users who perhaps don’t have an outdoor garden with a steady supply of greens throughout the year. Many of these have been Kickstarters, but now LG is looking to get in on… Continue reading LG’s smart indoor gardening system offers growers year-round veggies
Farm machinery specialist New Holland Agriculture has teamed with the automotive design mavericks at Pininfarina to present a concept that’s sexier than a tractor should be. Designed to improve upon the way premium specialty grapes are tended to, the p… Continue reading Visionary tractor concept is as entrancing as the wine it helps create
With large high-tech sustainable farming facilities located in Northern California and Texas, Silicon Valley-based startup Iron Ox relies heavily on robots to help shoulder the workload. The company’s latest bot, named Grover, can lift over 1,000 lb (4… Continue reading Grover robot does the heavy lifting in high-tech greenhouses
It’s usual for a Hackaday scribe to read hundreds of web pages over a typical week as we traverse the world in search of the good stuff to bring you. …read more Continue reading Going Forward To The Land: Technology For Permaculture
The Plantee indoor greenhouse was developed for folks who have brought a colorful plant home from a shopping trip, only to watch it wither and die despite their best efforts to look after it. The all-in-one, plug-and-play solution takes the guesswork o… Continue reading Indoor greenhouse takes the guesswork out of plant care
At this point the average Hackaday reader is likely familiar with so-called “Proof of Work” (PoW) cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Dogecoin. In the most basic of terms, these …read more Continue reading What’s Chia, and Why is it Eating all the Hard Drives?
For more than a few years now, we’ve been covering the saga of tractors from the larger manufacturers on which all components are locked down by software to the extent …read more Continue reading Tractors And The Right To Repair: It’s Going Global
According to Pennsylvania State University’s Asst. Prof. Long He, the mushroom-farming industry is currently experiencing a labor shortage. His team has thus set about addressing that problem, by developing a mushroom-picking robot.Continue ReadingCate… Continue reading Suction-cup-equipped robot designed to pick and trim farmed mushrooms
One of the challenges of farming lies in the fact that by the time plants appear to be diseased or otherwise stressed, it may already be too late to address the problem. A new type of potato, however, is designed to warn farmers by fluorescing at the e… Continue reading Genetically engineered potato plant “glows” in response to stress