Hands Free Hectares plants winter wheat crop

Hayley Kennedy
Updated March 9 2018 - 9:34am, first published March 8 2018 - 3:12pm
Agricultural engineer Kit Franklin, who is leading the team conducting the Hands Free Hectare project, with the automated tractor that is doing all the work. Picture: Lea Coghlan.
Agricultural engineer Kit Franklin, who is leading the team conducting the Hands Free Hectare project, with the automated tractor that is doing all the work. Picture: Lea Coghlan.

The world-first project run by Harper Adams University and Precision Decisions in the United Kingdom to drill, tend and harvest a crop without operators on the machines and agronomists in the field has planted its second Hands Free Hectare (HFHa).

Hayley Kennedy

Hayley Kennedy

Livestock Editor

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