Future Farming

The unit connects via ISOBUS TIM to link the tractor’s controls to TraXwise, AgXeed’s own planning and monitoring platform. Photos: AgXeed AgXeed has introduced its Vehicle Control Unit (VCU), a compact retrofit kit that brings existing tractors into the company’s automated ecosystem. The unit connects via ISOBUS TIM to link the tractor’s controls to TraXwise, AgXeed’s own planning and monitoring platform – allowing standard machines to carry out pre-planned operations with little manual input.

Chouette brings a different capability to that mix: onboard agronomic analysis that can translate field observations into crop management insights, including vine health monitoring, in-field variability mapping, and early disease detection. Photo: Agreenculture French autonomous-machinery specialist Agreenculture has acquired Chouette, a company specialising in AI-powered agronomic analysis for viticulture.

Fieldwork Robotics is currently testing its autonomous raspberry harvesting robot on commercial farms in the UK. The company expects fleets of multiple machines to enter commercial operation from 2027. Photo: Fieldwork Robotics. UK-based Fieldwork Robotics has secured additional investment from SEED Innovations, the investment company chaired by entrepreneur Jim Mellon, to accelerate the commercial deployment of its autonomous raspberry harvesting robot.

Machinery manufacturer Horsch has taken a strategic stake in the German application map specialist Sam-Dimension. Photo: Horsch Machinery manufacturer Horsch has taken a strategic stake in the German company Sam-Dimension. Sam-Dimension specialises in supplying application maps created using drone imagery for spot spraying against weeds. The 2 companies have already been working together since 2019.

The Mitchell River Flats near Bairnsdale in Gippsland, Australia, are not the first place you might expect to find agricultural robotics at work. But on the organic farm that Kane Busch’s great-grandfather established more than a century ago, the family has trialed technology that could reshape how organic vegetables are grown. Busch Organics spans more than 300 acres (121 hectares) of river flat country, 13 kilometres west of Bairnsdale at Hillside.

After the Axis 25 introduced last year, spreader manufacturer Rauch is now launching the new Axis 55. The model replaces the current 50.2 models and mainly offers more capacity than its predecessor. This model has a 3,500-litre hopper. Photos: René Koerhuis The DLG Feldtage did not feature many machine premieres, but fertiliser spreader manufacturer Rauch did use the event to show a new machine.

In a market that is currently, to put it mildly, on its knees, Austrian hoeing specialist Einböck is presenting its new Invera intra-row precision hoe. Perhaps its strongest asset is plant recognition from the Czech company Ullmanna. This makes the Invera even more distinctive. With Einböck, Dutch importer Reesink Agri has always had a strong card to play when it comes to hoeing technology. The machines are known for being solid and robust.

Under challenging, wet conditions, the 4-row Einböck Invera made its first passes in a sugar beet field in Eexterveen (Drenthe) on 9 June. Partly because of the wet conditions, the cameras initially had some difficulty controlling the depth adjustment per element properly. While Christiaan Borkus of importer Reesink Agri made the final adjustments on the tablet, the blades nevertheless hoed neatly around the beet plants at about 2 km/h.

DynamoBot supplies the WeSee spot spraying system with individual nozzle control, which can be mounted on almost any type of field sprayer; new, relatively new and considerably older machines. Photo's: René Koerhuis The WeSee setup from German company DynamoBot initially appears to be ‘yet another new spot spraying system’. Until a number of distinctive features become apparent.

Combining SwarmFarm Robotics’ SwarmBot, WEED-IT optical spot spraying technology and the proven Pinto platform, the new implement enables growers to automate spraying operations while maximising accuracy and efficiency – delivering chemical savings and greater flexibility in chemistry application.