A $400,000 combine harvests only about 0.4 hectares per hour. At Oklahoma State University, Dr. Brian Arnall explained why speed is not the priority for a plot combine and what data it collects from each research plot.
The same hybrid, planting date, and nitrogen rate, yet completely different yields. During a visit to Veris in Kansas, I saw how mobile soil sensors reveal what lies beneath the field’s surface and help explain differences that ordinary soil sampling may miss.
In Germany, I visited the farm of Thinus Glitz, a farmer who combines crop production with pig feeding. During the visit, we not only saw how the automated pig farm works, but also took a look at the machinery park of his farm. This video shows the real machines that work in the field every day: tractors, seeders, sprayers, harrows …