Swiss maker Ecorobotix has unveiled a prototype 12-metre ARA 1200 spot sprayer at the AgroTechniek Holland fair, priced at about €210,000, with a 9-metre ARA 900 alongside it.
Demand for the farm modernisation grants has forced ranking and selection on recent tranches; 69,593 applications were lodged across the first twelve, and tranche 14 is open until December 4.
The de novo assembly of Gallus gallus murghi runs to about 1.12 Gb at 99.2% completeness across all 40 chromosomes, with a contig N50 of 36.55 Mb and scaffold N50 of 91.4 Mb; deposited as NCBI BioProject PRJNA1301553, it gives a reference for tracing purity and admixture in the wild ancestor of dome
Ireland won 29 golds and two 'World's Best' category titles in Amsterdam, ahead of Australia on 42 medals and England on 26; Bord Bia says the wins translate into export orders.
The EU has seen more than 1,750 wildfires this summer; grazing herds eat the scrub that feeds them, but after 27,000 hectares burned near Madrid the government plans goats on only 3,700 — far less than needed.
Ray and Ryan Flickner's 1,000-acre Moundridge farm pairs subsurface drip irrigation laid in 2001 with strip-till, no-till, cover crops, drip lines retrofitted to pivots, an autonomous irrigator and plant sensors — and produced about 26 bushels per inch of water in the dry 2024 season, ten more than
US imported 95CL beef has fallen from about US$4/lb at the start of the year to $3.42/lb, and AgriHQ analyst Mel Croad says the 90-day tariff-free window — mainly for Brazil and Paraguay — adds confusion as US demand eases seasonally; North Island bull beef has slipped from a $9.95/kg August peak to
Nutrimeter Grain, a near-infrared sensor built on GrainSense technology, reads protein and oil content from flowing grain on 2026 Lexions and maps it for segregated storage and variable-rate fertiliser; the Convio Flex draper now comes in a 15.3 m width for the largest models.
Suppliers of silage wrap, bale wrap and agrichemical packaging will pay a fee of about 1% of product price to fund a free nationwide network of collection sites, expanding today's 240; Agrecovery will run it, and 90% of farmers polled support it, since voluntary schemes recover less than half of in-
Mitch McConnell's return gave Republicans the deciding vote on 16 September, but the bill needs 60 votes in the full Senate, must be reconciled with the House version, and the House has recessed for seven weeks.
The US Senate Agriculture Committee advanced the Agricultural Act of 2026 on a party-line 12–11 vote after a failed attempt last month, drawing praise from grain, dairy and biofuel groups, opposition from the Meat Institute over country-of-origin labelling, and disappointment from young farmers.
Routine spraying and spreading of fertiliser, lime, seed and manure by drone will need only a notification to the Civil Aviation Authority instead of a certification that can take nine months and cost thousands; the Agricultural Drone Association calls it what it asked for, while the Aviation Indust
AgrotechBurnaby's Lucent BioSciences will use up to C$1,976,150 from the Agricultural Clean Technology Program to develop a biodegradable starch-based coating for controlled-release nitrogen fertiliser, replacing the polymer shells that leave microplastics in soil.
