Laser weeding is going to be a game-changer in precision agriculture according to Jānis Jaško, CEO of WeedBot Ltd. The company, originally from Latvia has demonstrated its prototype and plans to launch a commercial unit in Spring 2022.
MoA Technologies, which featured in the REAP 2019 Start-up Showcase, offers a rapid screening technology to identify potential herbicides with novel modes of action.
Insect pheromones used in nature for communication are to be engineered synthetically to produce powerful crop protection tools.
Biocleave uses a benign soil bacterium, Clostridium, as a micro-factory to create recombinant proteins such as enzymes, for use in the production of biopesticides.
The world’s first ‘per plant weeding’ service has been demonstrated by the Small Robot Company (SRC). Its first customer is the Lockerley Estate, where robots are a key part of a regenerative farming strategy.
Crops are more vulnerable to weeds now than before the advent of herbicides, according to a new study, using data from the Broadbalk winter wheat trials, the world’s longest running experiment.
A new method, enabling the genetic alteration of Black-grass to understand how herbicide resistance develops, has been described as ‘game changing’ by the lead scientist, Dr Dana MacGregor of Rothamsted Research.
Small Robot Company in partnership with RootWave has developed ‘Dick’ the world’s first non-chemical weeding robot that uses electricity and AI to zap individual weeds in the field. Early field trials of the prototype will start in 2020.
Fafaza, is a precision crop spraying technology that performs plant recognition and individual treatment in real time. It has been developed by innovation specialist Cambridge Consultants.
Agri-tech start-up MoA Technology offers a rapid technology for herbicide development.
xarvio’s Field Manager delivers field specific crop management recommendations to a smart-phone – it will be shown for the first time at REAP 2019
The results come from a new ‘early warning system’ that has been developed at Rothamsted that aims to identify those weed populations that are close to becoming herbicide resistant.
For growers faced with the tricky choice of controlling blackgrass with post-emergence herbicides or spraying off with glyphosate, the new oil dispersion formulation of Atlantis offers promise says Velcourt