Following the machines, people and ideas shaping agriculture. Selected developments, clear context and a link to the original source.
Robotics. Intelligence. Agriculture.
A low-cost monitoring module combines three-depth moisture measurements with weather variables to investigate broccoli growth in a small experimental plot.
Australia’s Soil CRC chose Sentek to commercialise a buried wireless node designed to keep soil-data equipment out of the path of machinery and livestock.
Curtin researchers are testing an approach to track fungicide-resistance mutations in grain pathogens, with partners across Australia and Europe.
USP-led research couples flexible printed electrodes with a portable Bluetooth analyser to measure selected pesticides directly on fruit and vegetable surfaces.
KNUST and international partners plan low-cost electrical resistivity monitoring to study how farming practices affect water beneath the soil surface.
A published research system links field sensors, leaf photographs and a web dashboard to investigate cucumber crop-health monitoring in Karnataka.
CARI reports a new sensor installation intended to support smallholder advice, agricultural research and climate-resilience demonstrations in Liberia.
NDSU is connecting soil and microclimate measurements through LoRaWAN, supporting crop-disease, residue-management and irrigation research across its facilities.
The EU–Africa research programme includes plant health, food processing and water–nutrient–energy topics within a much wider funding envelope.
An agrifood webinar report proposes easier comparison of AI tools and stronger shared data foundations to address adoption barriers.
A Nairobi agreement creates a collaboration framework for agroecology, climate resilience and evidence-based rural development in Africa.
The November engineering conference will examine autonomous machines, sensors, interoperability and powertrains alongside practical machinery design.
