Controlling weeds remains vital in vegetable production. With rising labor costs and labor shortages, farmers continue to ...

A robot might be raising your Thanksgiving turkey - National Turkey Federation chairman John Zimmerman tells Mike Bedigan ...

CHUALAR, Calif. – Looking like the ungainly combination of a Transformer and Edward Scissorhands, the robot slowly trundles across the field of tiny plants. It uses three high-resolution cameras to ...

Getting your greens off Amazon is weird enough, but to think that they were grown and harvested by gentle-moving robot farmers is downright bonkers. Yes, there are quite a few robots and drones giving ...

Christian Luedtke, a researcher at Michigan State University, demonstrates a prototype of a tile robot. (Screen capture from Iowa Learning Farms via Iowa Capital Dispatch) Buy Photo The Gazette offers ...

In a special test vineyard in New York State, you may spot an unusual sight: tall, boxy robots with rugged tires patrolling the cultivated rows, moving autonomously thanks to onboard GPS. As they ...

The future holds a wealth of opportunities for rural communities like Cumbria, from high-tech harvests to advancements in the ...

Women in the Field: Here is Marlane Williams’ journey to getting back to what she cares about most, owning a dairy farm. Marlane Willams grew up on a family farm near Renick, Mo., just north of ...

TOKYO - Manual labor is becoming more and more difficult for Japan's aging farmers, prompting a Tokyo professor to devise a high-tech solution: mechanize the bodies of the farmers themselves. Prof.

SAN CARLOS, Calif. -- Brandon Alexander would like to introduce you to Angus, the farmer of the future. He's heavyset, weighing in at nearly 1,000 pounds, not to mention a bit slow. But he's strong ...

The US is facing an agricultural worker shortage, along with aging farm owners, at the same time it juggles demand in food from a global population boom. If we're being blunt, those elements added ...