HandsFreeHectare & Farm retweeted
Cultivation autonomously @FreeHectare for the next season of strip cropping yesterday.
HandsFreeHectare & Farm retweeted
Very pleased to share the publication of "Hands free Hectare: The Heuristics of the first arable crop produced by robots"
doi.org/10.1016/j.atech.2025…
A paper describing the research approach and key outcomes of Hands @FreeHectare @HarperAdamsUni
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HandsFreeHectare & Farm retweeted
On this week's @BrashAgri podcast I got my Hands @FreeHectare co-creator Jonathan Gill on to reflect upon 10 years since we coined the name and concept of #HFHa
Search "Brash Ag" on @Spotify @ApplePodcasts @YouTube etc!
HandsFreeHectare & Farm retweeted
Was great to chat to Wallace on the Rural to Kitchen Pod. Talking #HFHa, #Agritech, @IAgrE, @BrashAgri and why we need people to study Ag Eng @HarperAdamsUni
open.spotify.com/episode/1im…
Ten years from #HFHa concept!
What sparked the Hands Free projects?
Give Brash Ag a listen to find out!
On this week's @BrashAgri podcast I got my Hands @FreeHectare co-creator Jonathan Gill on to reflect upon 10 years since we coined the name and concept of #HFHa
Search "Brash Ag" on @Spotify @ApplePodcasts @YouTube etc!
HandsFreeHectare & Farm retweeted
Busy week for @FreeHectare - strip intercropping also sown beans, naked barley and boats (beans + oats mixed intercropping)
Another run through of Rotofence demonstration. Autonomous post placement, straight and upright.
@HarperAdamsUni @FarmscanAGUK Kidd Farm Machinery. @innovateuk
#Agtech #Agritech #HFHa #handsfreefarm
Autonomous Fencing cycle!
Collaboration between @FarmscanAGUK, @HarperAdamsUni and Kidd Farm Machinery.
An @innovateuk funded project "Rotofence"
Beautiful morning for an Autonomous Fencing demonstration.
Keep posted for footage later!
#handsfreefarm #HFHa
@HarperAdamsUni
@FarmscanAGUK
Early field testing of autonomous post positioning and slope compensation, promising start, watch this space
@HarperAdamsUni @FarmscanAGUK
#autonomosfarming
#Agritech
#autonomousAg
HandsFreeHectare & Farm retweeted
Landing in Denmark for @agromek_dk expo and the Advances & Innovations in Ag Eng conference where I am giving the keynote about @FreeHectare on Wednesday.
It's fairly wet here plenty of standing water on approach.
@HarperAdamsUni
Tractor leaving @HarperAdamsUni to go for on farm autonomous project testing with @FarmscanAGUK #HandsFree
In this Podcast you can hear what Callum and @FarmscanAGUK took from their involvement in the #handsfreefarm #HFF project as a commercial partner. As well as his insight into the challenges of autonomous farming.
In this weeks Chewing the Cud Pod Kit @AgEngResearch and Ray @Flynt_tech are joined by @FarmscanAGUK MD Callum Chalmers.
Hear Callum's take on skills, @innovateuk funding, the European Ag Electronics market and future developments.
open.spotify.com/episode/4tx…
HandsFreeHectare & Farm retweeted
Sowing the new site for @FreeHectare strip #intercropping @HarperAdamsUni winter wheat blend of Extase and Mayflower, Mascani oats, other strips will be spring barley, spring beans and legume fallow
HandsFreeHectare & Farm retweeted
Strip cropping #intercropping with 2m wide strips barley, spring beans and wheat. Beans near the barley appear to have more pods. Edge effects and temporal complementary (relay cropping) @FreeHectare @HarperAdamsUni
HandsFreeHectare & Farm retweeted
Solar dome. Oak Farm Population wheat. Plants in centre taller, plants on edges tillering out. Domed top to strip. Increased surface area.
HandsFreeHectare & Farm retweeted
Cyberpeasant: agroecology meets agritech wheat and clover strip cropping @FreeHectare @HarperAdamsUni - will be talking about diverse cereals @Groundswellaguk with @UKGrainlab on Thursday at 1pm
HandsFreeHectare & Farm retweeted
Just arrived @PlumptonCollege for West Sussex Growers Association conference. Great to be back after a successful 2018 event to report on Hands @FreeHectare progress and commercial Ag robotic uptake.
We are so excited to welcome the West Sussex Growers Association within our AgriFood Centre today for the WSGA Autumn Conference 2023! The event kicks off at 10am with a talk from the WSGA Chair, Richard Hopkins, followed by the @NFUtweets President, Minette Batters 🌿