Horrible wet day today but thankfully HandsFreeHectare & Farm team drilled the strip cropping polyculture trial Harper Adams University on Monday. 2 systems: 1. wheat, barley, beans (to be drilled later), and 2 wheat alternating with living clover ley strips.

Strip cropping polyculture trial Harper Adams University using HandsFreeHectare & Farm technology coming up. Bit of flooding at far end. Clover-wheat system is KWS Extase and my Oak Farm Population

Strip cropping polyculture #intercropping HandsFreeHectare & Farm Harper Adams University barley and wheat up (except drowned bits) and beans to go in once dry enough to travel.

Just arrived Plumpton College for West Sussex Growers Association conference. Great to be back after a successful 2018 event to report on Hands HandsFreeHectare & Farm progress and commercial Ag robotic uptake.

HandsFreeHectare & Farm Harper Adams University Solar dome. Oak Farm Population wheat. Plants in centre taller, plants on edges tillering out. Domed top to strip. Increased surface area.

Cyberpeasant: agroecology meets agritech wheat and clover strip cropping HandsFreeHectare & Farm Harper Adams University - will be talking about diverse cereals Groundswell with Grain Lab on Thursday at 1pm

Robot strip #intercropping HandsFreeHectare & Farm Harper Adams University

Strip cropping #intercropping with 2m wide strips barley, spring beans and wheat. Beans near the barley appear to have more pods. Edge effects and temporal complementary (relay cropping) HandsFreeHectare & Farm Harper Adams University

Sowing the new site for HandsFreeHectare & Farm strip #intercropping Harper Adams University winter wheat blend of Extase and Mayflower, Mascani oats, other strips will be spring barley, spring beans and legume fallow

HandsFreeHectare & Farm driving autonomously

In this Podcast you can hear what Callum and FarmscanAG UK took from their involvement in the #handsfreefarm #HFF project as a commercial partner. As well as his insight into the challenges of autonomous farming.

Tractor leaving Harper Adams University to go for on farm autonomous project testing with FarmscanAG UK #HandsFree

Landing in Denmark for Agromek expo and the Advances & Innovations in Ag Eng conference where I am giving the keynote about HandsFreeHectare & Farm on Wednesday. It's fairly wet here plenty of standing water on approach. Harper Adams University

Early field testing of autonomous post positioning and slope compensation, promising start, watch this space Harper Adams University FarmscanAG UK #autonomosfarming #Agritech #autonomousAg

Beautiful morning for an Autonomous Fencing demonstration. Keep posted for footage later! #handsfreefarm #HFHa Harper Adams University FarmscanAG UK

Autonomous Fencing cycle! Collaboration between FarmscanAG UK, Harper Adams University and Kidd Farm Machinery. An Innovate UK funded project "Rotofence"

Another run through of Rotofence demonstration. Autonomous post placement, straight and upright. Harper Adams University FarmscanAG UK Kidd Farm Machinery. Innovate UK #Agtech #Agritech #HFHa #handsfreefarm

HandsFreeHectare & Farm Harper Adams University FarmscanAG UK Innovate UK Busy week for HandsFreeHectare & Farm - strip intercropping also sown beans, naked barley and boats (beans + oats mixed intercropping)

Ten years from #HFHa concept! What sparked the Hands Free projects? Give Brash Ag a listen to find out!

Was great to chat to Wallace on the Rural to Kitchen Pod. Talking #HFHa, #Agritech, Institution of Agricultural Engineers, Brash Ag Farm Innovation Podcast and why we need people to study Ag Eng Harper Adams University open.spotify.com/episode/1imBhA…