Agtonomy, a hybrid autonomy and tele-assist service platform, has raised an additional $5 million in Seed II funding from strategic and venture investors Toyota Ventures, Flybridge, Hampton VC, E²JDJ and Momenta, for a total of $9 million in seed funding to date.
Mounting difficulties in recruiting to the agricultural industry is benefiting leading suppliers of milking equipment such as DeLaval as farms turn increasingly to automation to compensate.
The first waves of commercially available autonomous farm equipment are starting to appear on farms in Canada and Australia, and farmers are reporting immediate benefits.
As follow up to Farm Equipment’s earlier report and Ag Equipment Intelligence’s post “Chinese High-Tech Promises Challenge for Farm Machinery Makers,” a May 13 report confirmed that the development work is being carried out on an 11 hectare field in Hongwei Farm, Heilongjiang province.
In today’s newscast, we examine the results of Ag Equipment Intelligence’s 2017 Dealer Business Outlook & Trends survey, when we can expect autonomous farm equipment to become big business, JCB’s plans for dealer expansion and AGCO’s third quarter financial results.
In the latest episode we take a look at the Equipment Dealers Assn.’s Dealer Choice Award recipients, Kubota dealers’ increased interest in precision farming, how the recent up tick in corn and soybean prices could influence farm equipment sales, Titan’s first quarter results and Kubota’s attempts at autonomous farm equipment.
In the latest episode we look at Kubota’s year-end earnings, autonomous ag vehicles, comments made by Titan International's CEO on the year ahead for the tire maker, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s 2016 outlook and Buhler’s first quarter earnings.
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In this episode of On the Record, we take a look at the most recent push for right to repair, this time at the federal level. In the Technology Corner, Mackane Vogel shows us some new tech he recently encountered from Solinftec.