Following the machines, people and ideas shaping agriculture. Selected developments, clear context and a link to the original source.
Robotics. Intelligence. Agriculture.
19 stories in Greenhouse automation.
Tomato and cucumber greenhouses in Almería will test sensors, hyperspectral measurements and automated ventilation within the European AgriDataValue project.
A greenhouse sensor-network study maps uneven growing conditions and tests separate prediction models for different vertical layers.
A study of five organic vegetable crops reports water and yield benefits from an automated system tested with growers in Sa Kaeo.
AgriSMART Lestari combines remote monitoring and automated irrigation with a pilot using kenaf biomass as a mushroom-growing substrate.
Greenhouse in Transition brings universities and industry together to rethink growing systems and their connections with nearby farms, homes and industrial sites.
A Danish–German project aims to help growers retain irrigation water longer by measuring the nutrients that bulk salt readings cannot distinguish.
Historical example: Team IDEAS led a dwarf-tomato cultivation competition that evaluated production outcomes alongside operating costs.
