Agricultural Machinery

9+ hour, 14+ min ago   (504+ words) The USDA’s Specialty Crop Research Initiative put up this money as part of a broader effort to tackle labor shortages and rising costs in specialty crop farming. The funding creates a new Center of Excellence for Orchard Robotics at Cornell…...

10+ hour, 29+ min ago   (866+ words) By Mel Torrie, CEO, ASI | September 13, 2026 ASI has worked with U.S. Sugar and Everglades Group to deploy autonomous tractors across South Florida. Source: Autonomous Solutions Inc. After more than 25 years of deploying autonomous fleets in some of the most demanding industrial…...

12+ hour, 53+ min ago   (362+ words) Sun Sep 13, 2026 September 13, 2026 11:33 AM GMT+1 The Jigawa State Government will distribute more than 400 tractors and 60 combine harvesters to farmers from November 2026 as part of efforts to boost mechanised farming and food production in the state. The Director-General, Jigawa Agricultural Transformation…...

17+ hour, 1+ min ago   (667+ words) Patrick Quinn harvesting Oats on his farm near Newmarket on Fergus, Co Clare. Picture: Eamon Ward If you want something done, ask a busy person: isn’t that what they say? As someone who is essentially doing two jobs, Patrick Quinn…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (407+ words) An award-winning videographer says farming's shift towards drone technology and artificial intelligence is only just beginning. Edward Barraclough, Newborough, was presented with the Westpac Innovation in Agriculture Award at the Australian Agriculture Awards on Wednesday night. Mr Barraclough's company Drone-Hand…...

20+ hour, 45+ min ago   (80+ words) Despite a decade of breathless headlines about artificial intelligence, agricultural robots, and fully autonomous farms, the berries, avocados, oranges, and tomatoes stacked in market stalls around the world are still harvested, in the overwhelming majority of cases, by human hands....

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1102+ words) Driven by progressive policies, local farmers are amassing wealth through strategic investments in hi-tech agriculture, deep processing, and robust production alliances across modern rural ecosystems. Back in 2008, when initially venturing into poultry farming, Dinh Ngoc Khuong, residing in Nuoc Vang…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (167+ words) Nationwide event on Saturday, Sept. 12, will showcase locally made goods, with the first 20 customers at each store receiving a limited-edition tote designed by an FFA member To further support FFA members, customers can donate to Tractor Supply’s FFA Future Leaders…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (860+ words) Inside Jason Ferreira’s honors agriculture science class at Hanford High School, students are dreaming up big goals for the year – showing animals at the county fair, volunteering on FFA judging teams, and working on their own projects. But they started…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (897+ words) Jason Ferreira said he prepares his students as much as he can to evolving technologies in the classroom. Hanford High honors agriculture students are shown sketching out plans for a monarch butterfly mural at their on-campus farm. Inside Jason Ferreira’s…...