Articles by René Groeneveld

The WeedSpider, a platform capable of automatically weeding, spraying, and thinning a variety of crops, will be demonstrated in-field. - Photo: SeedSpider

17-05-2023 | News

FIRA USA 2023: more than 15 in-field robot demos

Niels Olsen: “We made available what’s already there.” - Photo: Soilkee

15-05-2023 | Article

The only Australian farmer to ever earn soil carbon credits

Until farmers start with low disturbance tillage, they will not get all the benefits from it, Dr Bakers points out. - Photo: Rohan Rainbow

09-05-2023 | Article

Scientist John Baker: ‘A lot of farmers are doing no-tillage wrongly’

The new modular design of Tom V4 was planned to be the basis for the Dick and Harry robots, that were expected as a commercial product in 2024 and 2025. Photo's: SRC

08-05-2023 | News

Small Robot Company in danger of entering administration

An infield device measures the temperature of the canopy, the ambient temperature, the relative humidity, and the solar radiation, the building blocks of understanding how well a plant transpires. - Photo's: Athena IR-Tech

01-05-2023 | Article

Understanding the water needs of crops

The agreement between the two companies will help to improve in-field data analysis for grain, corn, soybean and cotton farmers in North America, Australia and New Zealand. - Photo's: John Deere

01-05-2023 | News

New automated insights for grain growers and cotton producers

An image of fruit size tracking for strawberries. - Photo's: Bitwise Agronomy

24-04-2023 | Article

Using a GoPro camera to create forecast information

AGT head of science and business development Tristan Coram (left) and barley breeder Paul Telfer examine the new Titan AX barley at Roseworthy, South Australia. - Photo: AGT

07-04-2023 | Article

Herbicide-tolerant barley offers growers more options

The scientists in the program are talking frequently to strawberry-growers, including Australian fruit farm Burlington Berries, that is using 16 robotic harvesters of Dogtooth Technologies to pick strawberries. - Photo: Dogtooth Technologies

05-04-2023 | Article

Australian effort to deliver robot-ready strawberries

Glyphosate being applied to winter wheat. - Photo: Mark Pasveer

24-03-2023 | Article

How an EU glyphosate ban would affect farmers globally

Groeneveld

René Groeneveld Correspondent for Australia