Predictive yield data has value for the individual farmer, Agrograph says, from in-season crop assessment to grain marketing and damage assessment.
use of artificial intelligence (AI) at the facilities of Wageningen University & Research (WUR). They were selected from 14 applicants. The teams have four months to produce a cucum- ber yield remotely and without human inter- vention, using as little water, nutrition and en- ergy as possible while achieving the highest possible output (i.e. production). The goal is to convert cultivation knowledge into algorithms that will enable computers to regulate cultiva- tion automatically in the future, even in places
where such knowledge is lacking. So, the ques- tion is: can computers do as well as growers? For this, each team has been allocated 96 square metres in the facilities of WUR’s busi- ness unit Greenhouse Horticulture in Bleiswijk (the Netherlands). Supervisors will provide the teams with the required digital information. Follow the Autonomous Greenhouses Challenge online at
www.autonomousgreenhouses.com
Tyre prevents yield loss in sugar beets
EUROPE A special tyre for beet-sowing machinery is to prevent loss of yield. OBO Tyres in The Nether- lands, part of the Magna Tyres Group, devel- oped this tyre together with the Dutch con- tractor Van Kempen in Vierlingsbeek. To reduce the amount of adhering soil when harvesting, new beet varieties grow more above the ground than in it, according to OBO. Problem is that beets sown in the row next to the tractor
track, are more prone to tip over and be left on the field when harvesting. Until now, usually two narrow tyres are mounted next to each other on the sowing tractor. This results in deep tracks. As an al- ternative, OBO Tyres took the carcass of a 900/50 R42 tyre on which it added two strips of rubber, each 35cm wide and built in sev- eral layers, for a wide and even bearing sur- face. In the middle of the tyre remains a 15cm gap. This allows loose soil ‘a way out’ instead of being compacted. In this way soil compaction is minimal.
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PHOTO: WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY & RESEARCH
PHOTO: OBO TYRES
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