Following the machines, people and ideas shaping agriculture. Selected developments, clear context and a link to the original source.
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Punjab Agricultural University reports a patent for a mobile maize dryer combining tractor or electric drive, indirect diesel heating and automated controls to support grain drying away from fixed installations.
80 Acres Farms has acquired three former Kalera facilities and associated intellectual property, planning to retrofit the sites with Infinite Acres technology as it expands its indoor production network.
Blue Radix has launched strawberry support for Crop Controller, connecting greenhouse measurements and weather forecasts to existing climate computers for automated climate decisions throughout the growing cycle.
Salk scientists identified how the plant receptor SRF3 coordinates iron balance and immune responses, providing mechanistic insight into nutrient defence interactions with possible relevance to future crop-resilience research.
Rothamsted researchers identified SDHI fungicide resistance in sampled Plenodomus biglobosus populations, with much higher resistance among UK isolates than Polish isolates; consequences for field disease control still require investigation.
USDA’s data-modernisation plan includes a pilot combining improved satellite imagery, crop models and producer information, alongside evaluation of AI and machine learning within upgraded agricultural data systems.
SmartVitiNet demonstrated a system combining drones, sensing and decision support in operational vineyards, with five events across France, Portugal, Cyprus and Greece and training resources for potential users.
A study highlighted by Wiley compared conventional management with sensor-guided irrigation in Italian tomato and table-grape plots, reporting water savings of up to 15% alongside improved yield and fruit quality.
The University of Alabama in Huntsville has received nearly US$1 million for two projects examining effective rainfall, soil moisture and agricultural water use across the southeastern United States.
Rothamsted modelling suggests better nitrogen management could reduce energy-related farm carbon impacts in England, highlighting fertiliser production as an important source of emissions beyond fuel used directly on farms.
Cambridge researchers combined live imaging and gene-expression mapping to show that fungal structures inside rice roots differ in lifespan and nutrient-transfer activity, complicating simple measures of beneficial colonisation.
Cambridge and Berkeley researchers found that removing antenna protein CP26 changes photosynthetic behaviour through structural effects, challenging assumptions about its direct role in dissipating excess absorbed light energy.
