Carbon Robotics plans to use new funding to expand sales regions for its weed control platform, as well as scale manufacturing, develop new software and hardware products, and launch into international markets.
Farmers are starting to ask what artificial intelligence bots like ChatGPT can do for them. John Phipps went straight to the source, asking ChatGPT what it can do for farmers.
See & Spray Premium is available for John Deere MY 2018 and newer self-propelled sprayers in the U.S. with factory-installed ExactApply System/ ExactApply Performance Upgrade Kit, steel boom and 15” or 20” spacings
Herbicide-resistant weeds are a growing problem for farmers across the country. Luckily some new technologies are on the horizon to help battle the bullies of the plant world.
As one of the first retailers to commercial selective spraying in their agronomic offering, Jeff Crissinger, VP of Agronomy Sales/Marketing at NuWay-K&H Cooperative shares how they are positioning this technology.
John Deere's ExactShot, unveiled during CES, uses sensors and robotics to place starter fertilizer precisely onto seeds as they are planted. The company claims the technology comes with a fertilizer savings of up to 60%.
The Hayward, Calif.-based company's commercial robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) services a variety of specialty crops on thousands of acres with orders pending for tens of thousands of additional acres.
Sabanto, founded in 2018, is working to allow farmers and ag retailers to convert any make and model into an autonomous tractor through an equipment retrofit kit.
More than three dozen U.S. John Deere dealerships will now sell the GUSS autonomous sprayer. The company says the Herbicide GUSS is the first and only autonomous orchard herbicide applicator.
"The early autonomy customers are helping us define the future and they are a key part of setting the direction for the product,” says Ben Voss, director of sales at Raven.
Monarch Tractor says it has the first fully electric, driver-optional, smart tractor, but the leading edge company has bumped against state regulations limiting its expansion.
The latest Fendt Xaver is outfitted with Precision Planting components and plants seeds 24 hours a day, has sub-inch precision, and uses features a lightweight electric design producing zero emissions.
Driverless solutions such as OMNiPOWER provide a solution to:
Labor constraints.
Short harvest windows.
Increased yields due to reallocation of resources.
Yield monitors on combines. Module-building cotton pickers. Automatic row shut off on planters. Now for sprayers, will selective smart spraying systems be the next must-have productivity enablers?
Introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show with nearly 5,000 watching the live stream introduction, John Deere introduces its full autonomy solution for tractors, which will be available to farmers later in 2022.
The arrival of a precision, pellet-slinging, automated rover may provide almond growers with a cutting-edge NOW control weapon. Welcome to the age of robotic mummy removal.
"This acquisition will add strong innovation capabilities to accelerate our precision and digital strategy," said Scott Wine, Chief Executive Officer, CNH Industrial.
Raven is putting the spotlight on its autonomous product lineup and debuting the Omnidrive installed on a Case IH Magnum tractor. It was announced in June that CNH Industrial was acquiring Raven for $2.1 billion
The startup focuses in building retrofit systems to use its patented artificial intelligence for fully autonomous tractors. The company says its technology deploys 360° situational awareness.
Scott Wine, CEO CNH Industrial “Precision agriculture and autonomy are critical components of our strategy to help our agricultural customers reach the next level of productivity...”
The company plans to make 40 final beta systems for this fall, which will be the last prototypes before its first fully commercial version in the spring of 2022.
As it continues to develop the core technologies from its acquisitions of SmartAg and Dot, Raven announces its brand for driverless technology going forward.
A farm-centric innovation model has been the focus of the AgLaunch and Farm Journal Row Crop Challenge to aide early-stage agtech startups to solve on-farm problems.
Startup EarthSense says in 2019 its 40 robots collected more than 10 Terrabytes of data, and the company will more than double that number of units this year to close to 100 robots.