Following the machines, people and ideas shaping agriculture. Selected developments, clear context and a link to the original source.
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24 stories in Sensing & IoT.
ATB and the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut integrated Raman spectroscopy into a mobile soil platform, demonstrating measurements during movement and opening a route toward more detailed maps for future precision fertilisation.
Daedong’s October 2023 DH6135-A launch linked automated combine operation with yield measurements that could be reviewed through its connected-farming application, bringing navigation and agronomic records onto one machine.
Purdue researchers linked LeafSpec imaging with a two-arm laboratory system in June 2024, using tactile feedback to steady corn plants and guide a scanner along their leaves.
A June 2024 Stellenbosch University feature describes the Dassie vineyard prototype and Carlos Poblete-Echeverría’s digital-agriculture research, linking mobile measurements to more detailed information about individual vines.
Cornell reported field evaluations of PhytoPatholoBot in September 2025, combining autonomous row travel and canopy imaging to assess grape disease with performance comparable to experienced scouts in the study.
A February 2024 university report describes a solar-powered monitoring and control approach for avocado oil machinery, developed for settings where reliable grid electricity and labour-saving infrastructure are limited.
Germany’s Agri-Gaia launch linked machinery data, reusable AI components and legal expertise, with the University of Osnabrück contributing field observations and frameworks for exchanging information across organisations.
The Internet of Food and Farm 2020 project’s closing event brought technology trials and farmer needs together, including low-power sensing for wheat management and discussion of organic farming applications.
Grain SA’s 2025 NAMPO Cape preview described smart irrigation, GPS guidance, livestock tracking and integrated sensor dashboards, showing the breadth of digital farming tools being presented in South Africa.
Bosch and eight agricultural partners received a silver Agritechnica Innovation Award in 2019 for NEVONEX, a platform intended to run connected digital services directly on agricultural machinery.
Penn describes inexpensive soil and leaf sensors, field communications and a startup working to reveal crop stress before visible damage becomes widespread.
Eurofins Agro and trinamiX added countries, energy estimates and alfalfa silage support to their portable near-infrared feed-analysis offering.
