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As a wine grape farmer I have to say that there is not much going on. There are people using drones, but I don't see much actionable data going out of them (es
by dejv 10y ago
As a wine grape farmer I have to say that there is not much going on.
There are people using drones, but I don't see much actionable data going out of them (especialy as you check each individual plan few times a week anyway). There are reports about some robots being developed, but nothing much being deployed.
State of art technology is optical sorting machine, which check each berry, after being destemed, and discard those which are unripe, molded or damaged. It is kind of cool and I hope to be able to afford it some day.
- ju-st 10y agoIsn't there at least some buzz around optimizing water usage? Fine grained monitoring of individual plants using cheap sensors for example.
- dejv 10y agoIt might be case in California: grapes are ok without any irrigation, unless you are farming in couple of really hot places, or you really want to boost your quantity instead of quality.