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Agriculture has always been the backbone of human civilization, providing the sustenance needed to support societies and economies worldwide. As the global population continues to expand, the demand ...

According to the Weed Science Society of America (WSSA), soybean and corn farmers would lose almost 50% of their crops to unwanted weeds if there were no herbicides or alternative control methods used ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — Most people don't usually think of robots running farms. But it is the future, and those behind developing the technology are pointing to its benefits. According to the Centers ...

Greenfield Robotics, a Kansas-based company, is hoping to move agriculture away from herbicides. They’ve developed robots to take on a labor-intensive process — cutting weeds down. Three yellow, ...

PLAINVIEW, Minn. — Robotic milking may be the future of dairy farming but it won't make dairy farming easy. “We’ve been through some really tough times,” said Chad Schumacher, operator of Schumacher ...

BASTROP, Texas — Texas farms covered 126 million acres in 2021. In April 2022, Brandon Alexander opened Iron Ox in Lockhart, a hydroponic farm using data collection and robots to grow food closer to ...

In a sugar beet field a few miles east of Moorhead, small four-wheeled robots are rolling up and down the rows of beets. Powered by a solar panel, the robots use cameras to spot weeds and then guide ...

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In the farming of strawberries, high-bed cultivation somewhat eases the associated manual labor, but there is now a new lidar-assisted robot solution to to help harvest such soft fruit as strawberries ...