Conventional crop-spraying with herbicide to kill weeds among a crop wastes a lot of the herbicide and raises environmental concerns. A smart crop sprayer might identify weeds growing through the crop ...

Farmer-built, weed-specific sprayers are on the near-horizon for agriculture. The evidence? DIY, green-on-brown sprayers are already applying herbicide to fallow ground, built with open-source design, ...

TerraClear W eed M aps identify individual weeds as small as a quarter inch, built from imagery captured at 1.5-millimeter resolution across the entire field. Each map is delivered as a georeferenced ...

Labour shortages and rising machinery costs prompted Australian mixed farmer Tom Coggan to invest in autonomous spraying.

From drones that monitor and spray the crops to state-of-the-art harvesting robots and laser machines that can destroy harmful weeds, agriculture is constantly evolving and switching to more ...

For decades, farmers have been blanketing crops with herbicides like Roundup, which won’t kill corn and soybeans that have been genetically modified to survive it. But recently, some superweeds are ...

When Chase Sailer decided to transition from having his local co-op apply pesticides to on-farm application, he decided to “go all in” on a John Deere See & Spray Ultimate. Sailer farms with his dad ...

TWO trailed herbicide sprayers were custom built for under-tree and mid-row weed management at the Aroona Farms almond grove near Lyrup in the South Australian Riverland. The Aroona almond grove of ...

Do you just buy any weed killer from your local hardware store? You're doing your garden a disservice. Knowing which ...