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Download PDF Autonomous crop production has the potential to be game-changing for the future of farming – but does it stack up financially? CPM finds out more. If the policy framework around autonomous equipment is well-aligned, it can help to create new opportunities for farming. By Charlotte Cunningham The benefits of automation and robotics in crop production have been circling for some time, but it seems there are a few key hurdles which are often attributed to standing in the way of wide-scale adoption on arable farms. Namely these include cost and the actual capabilities of the technology, however, a new research paper has highlighted that arable crop production using autonomous equipment is both technically and economically feasible – and could help boost medium-sized farms. The paper – published in Precision Agriculture, an international journal on advances in precision agriculture – is the work of four Harper Adams University academics, and uses experience from the university’s Hands Free Farm project to demonstrate that medium-sized farms can produce arable crops at close to minimum per unit production cost levels. These changes mean that the use of autonomous equipment could see greater independence for farmers, a chance for smaller farms to become…
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Download PDF Autonomous crop production has the potential to be game-changing for the future of farming – but does it stack up financially? CPM finds out more. If the policy framework around autonomous equipment is well-aligned, it can help to create new opportunities for farming. By Charlotte Cunningham The benefits of automation and robotics in crop production have been circling for some time, but it seems there are a few key hurdles which are often attributed to standing in the way of wide-scale adoption on arable farms. Namely these include cost and the actual capabilities of the technology, however, a new research paper has highlighted that arable crop production using autonomous equipment is both technically and economically feasible – and could help boost medium-sized farms. The paper – published in Precision Agriculture, an international journal on advances in precision agriculture – is the work of four Harper Adams University academics, and uses experience from the university’s Hands Free Farm project to demonstrate that medium-sized farms can produce arable crops at close to minimum per unit production cost levels. These changes mean that the use of autonomous equipment could see greater independence for farmers, a chance for smaller farms to become…
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