Following the machines, people and ideas shaping agriculture. Selected developments, clear context and a link to the original source.
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An Irish research collaboration will combine milking-machine data, sensors and machine learning to examine how equipment settings can better match individual cows’ physiology while supporting milk quality and comfort.
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.
Gardin and Ridder have integrated optical crop measurements into Hortimax Pro, giving greenhouse operators a shared view of plant responses and environmental conditions to support adjustments to cultivation strategies.
Ridder and Signify have connected Philips GrowWise smart spectrum with Hortimax Pro through the Horti Lighting Protocol, allowing greenhouse lighting decisions to respond to sunlight, crop requirements and energy priorities.
Ridder’s TOM 4.0 project is developing tomato production around short plants and movable gutters, aiming to bring crops to centralized workstations and make greenhouse maintenance and harvesting easier to automate.
University of Arizona engineering students developed TOMI, a greenhouse robot prototype that moves along a defined route, uses fans for tomato pollination and captures images for automated pest recognition.
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.
A Wageningen doctoral study examines vertical farming from crop layout to urban adoption, connecting tomato spacing and lighting experiments with carbon-footprint analysis and the importance of cleaner electricity supplies.
Source.ag’s Cloud Modules connect normalized greenhouse data with business intelligence tools and event-driven applications, aiming to simplify information exchange across facilities with different measurement and reporting conventions.
Priva and Skye have announced a partnership connecting greenhouse climate constraints with energy forecasting and automated market dispatch, beginning in Sweden and the Nordic region before planned European expansion.
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.
Priva and IUNU have integrated climate records and plant observations to produce rolling yield forecasts, giving greenhouse teams an earlier view of changing harvest volumes and operational requirements.
