Agriculture + Solar, the Perfect Pair for Modern Farming
The 21st century has ushered in the era of commercial renewable energy. On each project, owners, end-users, developers, and subcontractors explore numerous options to maximize the efficiency of each plot of land.
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN FARMING: USING TECHNOLOGY TO PROPEL ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
When old project management is engrained, but not working, how do you even begin to adopt new software? Practicalities aside, how can the transition be designed to be cost-effective?
World's most remote robot automates Amazon reforestation project
Pilot project between ABB Robotics and non-profit organization Junglekeepers demonstrates potential of robotics and Cloud technology in reversing deforestation. Using solar power, YuMi® automates seed planting, making reforestation in the Amazon faster and more efficient.
Top 5 Tips for Rolling Out Robots
The 2023 landscape season is officially underway! A handful of Scythe partners in Texas and Florida recently began mowing with M.52. Here are a few things they did to successfully onboard M.52.
Data-Driven Technology: Transforming the Agriculture Industry
This article explores how data-driven technology is reshaping the agriculture industry, paving the way for a more sustainable and efficient future.
Can Self-Driving Trucks Reduce Costs and Increase Productivity in Agriculture?
Without having to stop for bathroom breaks, naps or a chance to stretch, autonomous semi-trucks will surely play a role in the future of agriculture regarding shipping. These vehicles are still a tailpipe dream, but how might they affect farming someday?
Chicken Farming with Solar Energy
System Designer Francisco Blasco and his team at Iser Smart Energy, who worked in partnership with Bet Solar faced considerable challenges in calculating the energy needs of the plant - not least because there are so few examples of this kind of installation on this scale.
AI-powered Laserweeding: A New Tool for Weed Control
The LaserWeeder is a pull-behind robot that seamlessly attaches to the back of tractors. LaserWeeder combines AI, computer vision software, deep learning models and lasers to identify weeds and target them for elimination.
Valmont Records Longest BVLOS Drone Flight on the Wings of T-Mobile 5G
The Un-carrier helps Valmont capture mission-critical data in industry-first beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) drone inspection operation
Fieldin Partners With Fruitspec to Provide Yield Inventory Technology to Apple Growers in the Pacific Northwest
FruitSpec's innovative technologies automatically track fruit sizes and quantities throughout the growing season so growers, packing houses and sales desks can better align fruit inventories to meet market demands.
UGA awarded $4 million to design farm of the future
The long-term goal of the 4-D Farm is to develop climate-smart production systems leveraging renewable energy, automation, intelligence and human capital to meet the required food and fiber needs of a burgeoning world population.
Is Climate Change Impacting the Growth of Commercial Agriculture?
It is important to remember that technology should be viewed as a tool that can be used to optimize or improve the situation. What it isn't, however, is a free pass to continue implementing unsustainable practices.
Purdue agrivoltaic farming structures and software harvest solar power at lower cost and with minimal impact on crop yield
Innovative modules created at the College of Agriculture and College of Engineering are mounted low and rotate to allow farm equipment to pass
The Role of AI and Machine Learning in Advancing Sustainable Biologicals in Agriculture
AI and machine learning solutions can help identify new microbial strains with beneficial agricultural properties, marking them as good candidates to improve biologicals such as biopesticides, biofertilizers, and biostimulants.
Purdue biology innovation allows the introduction of valuable traits in plants without creating transgenic plants
Patent-pending novel Agrobacterium strains deliver transfer DNA to a plant's nucleus without integrating it into the genome
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