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According to Israeli startup Tevel Aerobotics, there is a severe shortage of workers available to pick fruit at orchards. That’s why the company is developing an alternative, in the form of autonomous flying drones which do the job.Continue ReadingCate… Continue reading Fruit-picking drones may be heading for an orchard near you
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
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
Nuclear war was very much a front-of-mind issue during the fraught political climate of the Cold War era. Since then, atomic sabre rattling has been less frequent, though has never …read more Continue reading Would Nuclear Winter Cancel Out Global Warming?
John Deere has unveiled an autonomous farm tractor capable of working in the field on its own 24 hours a day. Revealed at CES 2022, the 8R tractor is scheduled to go into large-scale production this year.Continue ReadingCategory: TechnologyTags: John D… Continue reading John Deere takes wraps off autonomous farm tractor
Not only are herbicides harmful to the environment, but they’re also one more expense for the farmers who use them. That’s where the Greeneye selective spraying system comes in, as it’s claimed to only dispense herbicide when weeds are detected.Continu… Continue reading Greeneye herbicide tech selectively sprays weeds only
A new study led by researchers from Penn State is outlining a number of strategies that should be employed by cannabis growers to mitigate the plant’s ability to absorb heavy metals from soil. The study indicates it is possible consuming cannabis conta… Continue reading Heavy metals in cannabis plants could affect human health, study finds
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
While manually hoeing weeds out of crops can be very time- and labor-intensive, spraying those crops with herbicides is definitely not eco-friendly. A German consortium is developing a third choice, in the form of the AMU-Bot weed-killing robot.Continu… Continue reading AMU-Bot robot kills weeds as it makes its way through crops
Scientists at Australia’s Monash University claim to have made a critical breakthrough in green ammonia production that could displace the extremely dirty Haber-Bosch process, with the potential to eliminate nearly two percent of global greenhouse emis… Continue reading Green ammonia electrolysis breakthrough could finally kill Haber-Bosch