Agri-robotics

Beef

Watch: Italian beef farmers impress Irish tour with robot feed tech

The concept of a robot 'doing the foddering' has become a reality on beef farms in northern Italy and a group of Irish beef farmers...

Watch this 30-year-old combine drive itself

Tillage

over 7 years ago

Watch this 30-year-old combine drive itself

Hands Free Hectare is 1ha of land in Shropshire in the UK which has been dessicated, tilled, sown, fertilised, sprayed and harvested entirely by autonomous machinery. Even the crop walking was carried out using robotics.

Drones could add a billion to UK primary industry income

Agri-Business

over 7 years ago

Drones could add a billion to UK primary industry income

Over 76,000 drones could be in the UK skies in 12 years’ time - and it could add as much as £1.1 billion to the amount generated through farming.

4 out of 5 UK growers say agri-robotics could help their businesses

N.Ireland

almost 8 years ago

4 out of 5 UK growers say agri-robotics could help their businesses

More than out of five UK growers believe recent developments in agri-robotics and automation could help them to reduce reliance on labour.