AgrotechPeter Baars mows his apple and pear orchards with an autonomous Fendt and maps every tree with a roof camera, but says full trust needs tractor and implement to communicate and stop themselves.
LivestockA $448,940 ROAR grant with Entomol Products and Purdue will test whether misting hydrogenated catmint oil, already used in insect repellents, can cut avian influenza transmission in poultry houses.
106 solar-powered irrigation pumps now run in Maheshpur, Kotchandpur and Sadar upazilas of Jhenaidah, cutting farmers' irrigation bills and letting owners sell surplus water to neighbours.
AgrotechThe Carbon Autonomy Ready programme sets specifications so implements can connect directly to Carbon's autonomous tractors; Great Plains' HT1100 Terra-Max tillage tool is the first.
AgrotechA two-year Innovate UK-funded trial with AgriSound and Aviasenze uses microphones and machine learning to read flock sounds in free-range and barn laying houses and flag changes in health or behaviour.
American ranchers are fitting GPS collars to cattle in place of wire, but the technology now has to prove it is dependable on the ground.
At Mokamtala in Bogura's Shibganj, young agriculture graduates raise disease-free seedlings in soilless cocopeat trays and grow chemical-free vegetables under polyshade with mulch film, fogging and drip irrigation, and offer hydroponics services.
AgrotechThe Xpedite system raised yield potential by 10% in trials and up to 20% in water-stressed conditions; Hard Red Winter comes first, Soft Red Winter in 2029 and Hard Red Spring in 2030.
Ohio State University and Emergent Connext have wired the Molly Caren Agricultural Center to test wide-area LoRaWAN against faster short-range networks for connected farm equipment.
In Rajarhat, Kurigram, farmer Zaman Mia is growing off-season and year-round watermelon under polytunnels with mulching and pheromone traps.
A North Dakota start-up has raised $2.3 million to breed rhizobial inoculants that can outcompete native soil bacteria on pulse crops.
VegetablesA John Innes Centre tomato edited to accumulate provitamin D3 has been entered on England's precision breeding register, though it still needs Food Standards Agency approval before sale.
The James Hutton Institute and AgriSound will link bioacoustic pollinator monitoring to fruit set, yield and quality in strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries and cherries.
