HandsFreeHectare & Farm

Automated machines growing the first arable crop remotely, without operators in the driving seats or agronomists on the ground. #HFHa #HFF

[Edward Dickin @naked_barley]

Cultivation autonomously @FreeHectare for the next season of strip cropping yesterday.

[Kit Franklin @AgEngResearch]

Very pleased to share the publication of "Hands free Hectare: The Heuristics of the first arable crop produced by robots"
https://t.co/Wz38pOlNvk
A paper describing the research approach and key outcomes of Hands @FreeHectare @HarperAdamsUni
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[Kit Franklin @AgEngResearch]

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!

[Kit Franklin @AgEngResearch]

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
https://t.co/SgWZGoOw65

[HandsFreeHectare & Farm @FreeHectare]

Ten years from #HFHa concept!
What sparked the Hands Free projects?
Give Brash Ag a listen to find out!

[Kit Franklin @AgEngResearch]

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!

[Edward Dickin @naked_barley]

@FreeHectare @HarperAdamsUni @FarmscanAGUK @innovateuk Busy week for @FreeHectare - strip intercropping also sown beans, naked barley and boats (beans + oats mixed intercropping)

[HandsFreeHectare & Farm @FreeHectare]

Another run through of Rotofence demonstration. Autonomous post placement, straight and upright.
@HarperAdamsUni @FarmscanAGUK Kidd Farm Machinery. @innovateuk

#Agtech #Agritech #HFHa #handsfreefarm

[HandsFreeHectare & Farm @FreeHectare]

Autonomous Fencing cycle!

Collaboration between @FarmscanAGUK, @HarperAdamsUni and Kidd Farm Machinery.
An @innovateuk funded project "Rotofence"

[HandsFreeHectare & Farm @FreeHectare]

Beautiful morning for an Autonomous Fencing demonstration.
Keep posted for footage later!
#handsfreefarm #HFHa
@HarperAdamsUni
@FarmscanAGUK

[HandsFreeHectare & Farm @FreeHectare]

Early field testing of autonomous post positioning and slope compensation, promising start, watch this space
@HarperAdamsUni @FarmscanAGUK
#autonomosfarming
#Agritech
#autonomousAg

[Kit Franklin @AgEngResearch]

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

[HandsFreeHectare & Farm @FreeHectare]

Tractor leaving @HarperAdamsUni to go for on farm autonomous project testing with @FarmscanAGUK #HandsFree

[HandsFreeHectare & Farm @FreeHectare]

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.

[Brash Ag Farm Innovation Podcast @BrashAgri]

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.

https://t.co/5K7ums4C7m

[Edward Dickin @naked_barley]

@FreeHectare driving autonomously

[Edward Dickin @naked_barley]

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

[Edward Dickin @naked_barley]

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

[Edward Dickin @naked_barley]

@FreeHectare @HarperAdamsUni Solar dome. Oak Farm Population wheat. Plants in centre taller, plants on edges tillering out. Domed top to strip. Increased surface area.

[Edward Dickin @naked_barley]

Cyberpeasant: agroecology meets agritech wheat and clover strip cropping @FreeHectare @HarperAdamsUni - will be talking about diverse cereals @Groundswellaguk with @UKGrainlab on Thursday at 1pm

[Edward Dickin @naked_barley]

Robot strip #intercropping @FreeHectare @HarperAdamsUni

[Kit Franklin @AgEngResearch]

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.