Farming row crops has always required a careful balancing act between managing costs and maintaining soil health. For decades ...

A stirrup hoe is a fast, efficient weeding tool you can use around the garden. Here, a professional horticulturist reveals ...

For sustainable farmers, hand-weeding can be laborious, backbreaking work and can cost upwards of $300 an acre in labor costs. A French startup called Naïo Technologies is hoping to solve this problem ...

The USDA agronomist was sure he could find a use for the waste, and a few web searches revealed that fruit processors often grind up pits to use in sand blasters. This led to a less obvious question ...

Kenny Lee, CEO of Aigen with his low-energy robot. Worldwide, weeding is a big business. In general, it's back-breaking labor – not the kind of thing that it's particularly easy for humans to do. In ...

You might not have realised this, but there’s a group of hackers out there without whom you wouldn’t be able to put food on the table. They hack under the blazing sun and pouring rain, and have been ...

Kenneth Kioria Gicira and Michael Mwaisakenyi, Mechatronic Engineering students at JKUAT who invented the weed robot. Two Mechatronic Engineering students at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture ...

Weeds are the bane of gardens worldwide, spoiling the visual splendour and demanding hours to remove without knowing the ...