All posts tagged "Pollination"

World Food Day on 16 October reminds us that 821 million people in the world are undernourished and that sustainable agriculture requires mainstreaming of biodiversity. Farmers across the world are facing difficult times. Unpredictable weather patterns make it difficult to know exactly when to plant and when to harvest crops. Big commercial...

Walmart has filed a patent for autonomous robotic bees, technically called pollination drones, that could potentially pollinate crops just like real bees. The drones would carry pollen from one plant to another, using sensors and cameras to detect the locations of the crops. First spotted by CB Insights, the robot bee patent appears along five other...

Croptimal performs real time immediate tests and analysis in the field for crops, soil and water, replacing...

Researchers from the Warsaw University of Technology have been working on an automated pollination system for 4 years now. First a mobile version with wheels, and now the flying B-Droid has been garnering considerable interest not only in Poland. That’s hardly surprising, as our scientists have developed software for devices that can...

The opportunity to produce bountiful levels of vital food crops such as apples, tomatoes and watermelons could...

As local farmers, field hands and migrant workers toiled in the fields this summer picking blueberries, several recounted...

Plants produce volatiles, air-borne organic chemical compounds, to attract pollinators and seed dispersers, and to repulse plant-eating...

Farmers Scott and Susan Hill in front of their pollinator garden. “We had an agricultural specialist visit...