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R&D: Part 2 Farming automation and technology - A discussion with the USA's Western Growers Association

R&D: Part 2 Farming automation and technology - A discussion with the USA's Western Growers Association16 aug20 min

This is part 2 of a two part Vegalogue Episode, where we talk to the US Western Growers Association about their research and development of on farm innovation to address issues like labour costs, harvesting automation and weed control, just to name some. In Part one we focussed on autonomous harvesting aimed at cutting labour costs. In part two we’ll look at their work with weeding technology and also their partnership with Hort Innovation and the VegMech project (Project Code VG 23003) funde...