Articles by René Groeneveld

DataFarming has developed a web application that delivers satellite imagery to any farmer in the world.

10-10-2022 | Article

DataFarming aims to offer growers cheap and easy access to satellite imagery

The strawberry-picking robot currently picks at half the speed of a human picker, but it can run 24/7. - Photo: BSC Electronics

07-10-2022 | Article

Strawberry-picking robot uses ultra violet light to control funguses

New ways to increase capacity of soil carbon sequestration in farming are within reach.

05-10-2022 | Article

Technologies for soil carbon sequestration that also remove greenhouse gases

US company InsightTRAC will have its robots commercially deployed in December. The Rover can remove mummies from almond trees. It prevents pests from damaging the quality and yield of crops.

30-09-2022 | Article

InsightTRAC Rover can shoot mummies out of almond trees

Photo: Ortolanda

22-09-2022 | Article

Ortolanda: ‘Without our radish harvesting and bunching robots, we would need 25 people’

Australian start-up Hone aims to have its first devices for on-farm grain analysis ready for sale by start of the grain harvest this year.

20-09-2022 | Article

On-farm grain analysis technology available for harvest 2022

The outdoor harvesting machine is fully electric, with an on-board generator supplying the power. - Photo: Koppert Machines

15-09-2022 | Article

Radish harvesting robot saves growers up to 50% in costs

Farmer Sam Coulton says the cotton fields easily ‘swallowed up’ the shredded cotton material, giving him confidence that this composting method has practical long term potential. - Photo: Australian Cotton

07-09-2022 | Article

The benefits of returning cotton textile waste to fields

Only in almond orchards virtually 100% mechanisation has been achieved over the past decades. The autonomous Rover of InsightTRAC optimises yield with an accurate and reliable mummy-removal system. - Photo: InsightTRAC

22-08-2022 | Article

Off-the-shelf components to speed up harvest automation

Andrew Hannon and Anna Falkiner of Cropify. “The grade can be misclassified and that is what Cropify wants to get rid of.” - Photo: Cropify

17-08-2022 | Article

Cropify offers growers technology for objective grain classification

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René Groeneveld Correspondent for Australia