The 2023 World Ag Expo is the largest farm equipment show in the world. This year there was a record number of autonomous solutions on display.

On the show this week, Mike discusses the new automation and robotics solutions on display at the 2023 World Ag Expo.

Sprout is a lightweight, battery-powered autonomous robot that can precisely harvest asparagus for up to 16 hours a day.

Full-scale production of Monarch Tractor’s MK-V all-electric, autonomous tractor is scheduled to begin in Q1 2023.

Applications to join the 2023 cohort of the AGLaunch365 agricultural solutions accelerator are due by July 18, 2022.

Stout AgTech offers vision guided, mechanical cultivation with the launch of its Smart Cultivator implement.

Listen to how Blue River Technology brought autonomy to John Deere tractors and are using machine learning to continually improve the operations.

Pharm Robotics is bringing the first autonomous dairy cow inoculation solution to market, using industrial robots to inject pharmaceuticals.

Packaging operations continue to embrace automation as a way to reduce labor costs and workplace injuries while improving the efficiency and quality of packaged goods. But the use of automation isn’t evenly distributed, with large consumer packaged goods producers running with more automation than smaller packaging firms. One area ripe for increased automation are operations…

The tractors can perform pre-programmed tasks without a driver, or an operator can use Monarch’s automation features including Gesture and Shadow modes to have it follow a worker on the job.

Suma Reddy, CEO of agriculture robotics startup Future Acres, joins us to discuss the future of agtech automation.

HayBeeSee has been developing CropHopper, a quadcopter with flexibile legs that it says can gather more data in an energy-efficient way to help farmers manage crops.

SKF has a wide range of technology that can be applied in the Agriculture Industry to increase productivity, lower operational costs and deliver sustainability benefits. Solutions are typically aimed at extending machine component service life and reducing maintenance, both of which contribute to less stoppages, more reliability, and more machine availability. All of this results […]