Automation in Vegetable Harvesting Picks up the Momentum

The computing chip startup enabling the back end of farming’s most promising tech advances discusses where See & Spray is today, and where it’s headed.

After successful field trials that resulted in significant yields, Israeli agtech startup is ready for its unique pollination system to spread wings.

Find out how seed companies are doing their best to stay ahead of production trends.

Ag tech that grows produce hands-free from half way around the world has come to fruition, and it’s an international award-winner.

Besides labor-saving advantages, interested growers will have choices ranging from the traditional purchase option to something closer to an Uber model.

Designers of today’s and tomorrow’s orchard equipment say there have been a lot of bumps along the way to getting where we are today.

Take a look at these before and after field images, showing how an auto weeder and an auto thinner does its job. 

Opening day sessions at International Fruit Tree Association Conference highlight the need to improve profitability of production and new technologies to impact orchard operations.

Report maps out a future filled with advanced agriculture technology, automation, and mechanization in the field.

Some of the early adopters share what has their attention in 2019.

PlantTape solution could reduce required workers by 80%.

While there are several challenges for widespread robotic implementation, improving apple tree canopies may help the transition to automation.

More sharp eyes are being turned toward technology aimed at solving challenges in the lettuce and specialty crop industries.

West Virginia University research project has developed a prototype “BrambleBee” to develop a more efficient process to pollinating brambles under cover.

Just like the early computer era, today’s precision agriculture for specialty crops offers surprising and creative solutions to common field issues.

Long He, Specialty Crop Engineer and Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Engineering at Penn State University, discusses the possible engineering opportunities in the tree fruit industry.

Here is what’s on the market now, including how well the equipment is working, and what new technology to look for.

The goal is to pick apples with the same, if not better, fruit quality than traditional harvesting.

Our State of the Industry report shows optimism is overflowing.