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HandsFreeHectare & Farm retweeted
3 Oct 2025
Cultivation autonomously @FreeHectare for the next season of strip cropping yesterday.
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HandsFreeHectare & Farm retweeted
6 Oct 2025
Very pleased to share the publication of "Hands free Hectare: The Heuristics of the first arable crop produced by robots"
doi.org/10.1016/j.atech.2025…
A paper describing the research approach and key outcomes of Hands @FreeHectare @HarperAdamsUni
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HandsFreeHectare & Farm retweeted
14 Aug 2025
On this week's @BrashAgri podcast I got my Hands @FreeHectare co-creator Jonathan Gill on to reflect upon 10 years since we coined the name and concept of #HFHa
Search "Brash Ag" on @Spotify @ApplePodcasts @YouTube etc!
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HandsFreeHectare & Farm retweeted
24 Aug 2025
Was great to chat to Wallace on the Rural to Kitchen Pod. Talking #HFHa, #Agritech, @IAgrE, @BrashAgri and why we need people to study Ag Eng @HarperAdamsUni
open.spotify.com/episode/1im…
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14 Aug 2025
Ten years from #HFHa concept!
What sparked the Hands Free projects?
Give Brash Ag a listen to find out!
14 Aug 2025
On this week's @BrashAgri podcast I got my Hands @FreeHectare co-creator Jonathan Gill on to reflect upon 10 years since we coined the name and concept of #HFHa
Search "Brash Ag" on @Spotify @ApplePodcasts @YouTube etc!
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HandsFreeHectare & Farm retweeted
28 Mar 2025
Busy week for @FreeHectare - strip intercropping also sown beans, naked barley and boats (beans oats mixed intercropping)
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28 Mar 2025
Another run through of Rotofence demonstration. Autonomous post placement, straight and upright.
@HarperAdamsUni @FarmscanAGUK Kidd Farm Machinery. @innovateuk
#Agtech #Agritech #HFHa #handsfreefarm
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28 Mar 2025
Autonomous Fencing cycle!
Collaboration between @FarmscanAGUK, @HarperAdamsUni and Kidd Farm Machinery.
An @innovateuk funded project "Rotofence"
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28 Mar 2025
Beautiful morning for an Autonomous Fencing demonstration.
Keep posted for footage later!
#handsfreefarm #HFHa
@HarperAdamsUni
@FarmscanAGUK
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8 Jan 2025
Early field testing of autonomous post positioning and slope compensation, promising start, watch this space
@HarperAdamsUni @FarmscanAGUK
#autonomosfarming
#Agritech
#autonomousAg
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HandsFreeHectare & Farm retweeted
25 Nov 2024
Landing in Denmark for @agromek_dk expo and the Advances & Innovations in Ag Eng conference where I am giving the keynote about @FreeHectare on Wednesday.
It's fairly wet here plenty of standing water on approach.
@HarperAdamsUni
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21 Nov 2024
Tractor leaving @HarperAdamsUni to go for on farm autonomous project testing with @FarmscanAGUK #HandsFree
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25 Oct 2024
In this Podcast you can hear what Callum and @FarmscanAGUK took from their involvement in the #handsfreefarm #HFF project as a commercial partner. As well as his insight into the challenges of autonomous farming.
24 Oct 2024
In this weeks Chewing the Cud Pod Kit @AgEngResearch and Ray @Flynt_tech are joined by @FarmscanAGUK MD Callum Chalmers.
Hear Callum's take on skills, @innovateuk funding, the European Ag Electronics market and future developments.
open.spotify.com/episode/4tx…
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HandsFreeHectare & Farm retweeted
24 Oct 2024
Sowing the new site for @FreeHectare strip #intercropping @HarperAdamsUni winter wheat blend of Extase and Mayflower, Mascani oats, other strips will be spring barley, spring beans and legume fallow
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HandsFreeHectare & Farm retweeted
25 Jul 2024
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) @FreeHectare @HarperAdamsUni
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HandsFreeHectare & Farm retweeted
12 Jun 2024
Solar dome. Oak Farm Population wheat. Plants in centre taller, plants on edges tillering out. Domed top to strip. Increased surface area.
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HandsFreeHectare & Farm retweeted
21 Jun 2024
Cyberpeasant: agroecology meets agritech wheat and clover strip cropping @FreeHectare @HarperAdamsUni - will be talking about diverse cereals @Groundswellaguk with @UKGrainlab on Thursday at 1pm
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HandsFreeHectare & Farm retweeted
5 Jul 2024
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HandsFreeHectare & Farm retweeted
9 Nov 2023
Just arrived @PlumptonCollege for West Sussex Growers Association conference. Great to be back after a successful 2018 event to report on Hands @FreeHectare progress and commercial Ag robotic uptake.
9 Nov 2023
We are so excited to welcome the West Sussex Growers Association within our AgriFood Centre today for the WSGA Autumn Conference 2023! The event kicks off at 10am with a talk from the WSGA Chair, Richard Hopkins, followed by the @NFUtweets President, Minette Batters 🌿
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