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In a recent episode of Countryfile [1](popular UK BBC1 program on the country and farming) the resident farmer was mentioning both crop rotation and the issue o
by stoneman24 2y ago
In a recent episode of Countryfile [1](popular UK BBC1 program on the country and farming) the resident farmer was mentioning both crop rotation and the issue of black grass invading his wheat fields.
The black grass was slowly out competing his cash crop and would difficult to remove (perhaps taking the entire field out of any production for a year or the use of chemicals).
Having a horde of little robots might greatly assist in manually keeping other plants at bay without indiscriminately affecting the field with chemicals (extra one-use expense, robots would last many years).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countryfile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countryfile
- ensocode 2y agoI am searching for solutions in this field. Do you have any links to any consumer hardware for this. like drones which can cut down small invasive plants which were selected by AI?
- pbmonster 2y agoHave you looked at laser weeding? A camera looks at the plants, an ML model identifies which plants are crop and which are weeds, and then a laser burns the weeds just enough so they die from water loss. Research: https://ethz.ch/en/industry/industry/news/data/2022/03/laser-based-weeding-robot.html https://ethz.ch/en/industry/industry/news/data/2022/03/laser... Commercial product (first one I found, there are countless others): https://carbonrobotics.com/ https://carbonrobotics.com/
- doubloon 2y agoTertill cuts weeds but the ai is “if object is tall and firm enough to trip my bumper, turn”
- rurban 2y agoI do work in this field. The AI and the sensors are much better than that. It can recognize each plant, builds a 3D model, a growth model and does disease detection. It controls robots, lighting (in vertical farming) and water. Colleagues from the university did the drone things, and Lora sensors, but they are still way too expensive for the average farmers here in Germany. We should concentrate on the SW, and the Chinese on the HW.