First and foremost agricultural robots must be safe. However, the current regulatory context for robots is at times ill-suited and inaccurate.

The sharp increase could also see a net gain in “new roles” for humans, who will have to revamp skills to keep pace with the “seismic shift” in how we work with machines and computer programmes, the forum estimated.

Ton Moors was one of the first Dutch vegetable growers to start using GPS-guidance in 2004.

In coming decades as we transition to renewable energy in response to a climate change, Australia's excellent wind and solar resources will increasingly provide landowners with a bonanza of renewable energy opportunities, according to Professor Ken Baldwin when he was addressing the National Renewables in Agriculture conference and expo in Wagga Wagga.

Maybe the trigger for the rise of oxygen on Earth was nothing special.

I recently visited a remarkable farm in Carnation, Washington, just 25 miles from downtown Seattle.