Category: Agriculture
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Your gateway to explore vertical farming industry in the Gulf – GVF 2023 will go live this September in Dubai
As days pass and the Middle East’s largest and only exclusive event – the Global Vertical Farming Show 2023 by TAB group in Dubai happening on 13th and 14th September, gets near – it is being exceptionally acclaimed and talked about amongst the industry professionals. The summit will bring together experts, innovators, and leaders in…
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CNH Industrial unveils ‘first’ electric tractor prototype with autonomous features
CNH Industrial has unveiled the New Holland T4 Electric Power – which the company says is “the industry’s first all-electric light utility tractor prototype with autonomous features” – at its Tech Day in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, at the start of this year. A concentrated effort between CNH’s team of experts in the USA (Burr Ridge,…
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CNH Industrial adds new automation and autonomy solutions to agtech portfolio
CNH Industrial debuted its latest automation and autonomy solutions at its Tech Day in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, at the start of this year. New Driverless Tillage and Driver Assist Harvest solutions from Raven, and Baler Automation from Case IH and New Holland, deliver automation and autonomous equipment enhancements. They all help solve farming’s biggest challenges:…
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iFarm to build ‘world’s largest’ automated vertical farm in Mexico
iFarm, a vertical farming technologies provider, has agreed a collaboration with Opus 2G Group (Mexico) to build a whopping automated high-tech vertical farm in the Smart City of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca in the south of Mexico. Built with cutting-edge vertical farming technologies, the farm will have a cultivation area of 38.500 square meters and will…
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Carbon Robotics raises $30 million in funding to scale its AI-powered LaserWeeder platform
Carbon Robotics, a provider of AI-powered robotics to the agricultural sector, has closed $30 million in Series C financing from new lead investor Sozo Ventures along with existing investors Anthos Capital, Fuse Venture Capital, Ignition Partners, Liquid2 and Voyager Capital. The funding will be used to expand sales regions in North America, optimize and scale…
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Future of Agriculture: What Does Automated Vertical Farming Look Like?
Today, automation is revolutionizing productivity and bringing other benefits across almost all industries. Agriculture is also shifting from manual labor towards a highly automated model where almost no workers are required on site. Challenges faced by conventional agriculture such as limited water resources and farmland have facilitated the development of high-tech greenhouses and indoor vertical…
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Agtonomy selects Fixposition for farm vehicle GPS
Agtonomy, an ag-tech software start-up, has been working with Fixposition to integrate Fixposition’s Vision Fusion Technology to provide an element of its precise global positioning solution in its TeleFarmer solution. Agtonomy’s TeleFarmer solution is comprised of innovative software, a suite of apps, and an electric vehicle reference tractor. By utilizing Fixposition as one of its…
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FarmWise launches new weeding machine at the World Ag Expo
FarmWise, a farm automation company operating in the commercial weeding business for more than three years, has launched its next-generation weeding implement, Vulcan, at the World Ag Expo. Now available for pre-order, Vulcan was named to the World Ag Expo’s 2023 Top-10 New Products list. Vulcan packs cutting-edge computer vision into a lightweight, open cultivator…
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Carbon Robotics adds LaserThinning capability to its LaserWeeder
Carbon Robotics, an AI and robotics company specializing in agriculture, has introduced what it says is “the industry’s first LaserThinning capability”, continuing the “rapid innovation” of its LaserWeeder system. LaserThinning targets areas where vegetable crops are purposefully overseeded and then thinned for optimal crop spacing, growth and yield. This is particularly valuable for farmers growing…
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GUSS delivers its 200th autonomous crop sprayer
In 2014, when commercial spray business owner Dave Crinklaw drew a design on his shop floor of what he envisioned the solution to his labor challenges and inefficiencies to be, the journey to building the first autonomous sprayer began. After several years of prototype development and refinement, the award winning GUSS was delivered to the…