Pioneering agri-tech at the Hutton Integrating new tools/technologies into Scotland’s arable farming systems is essential to maintaining a successful, sustainable and thriving sector. The arable sector has pressing challenges and to hit net zero and biodiversity targets whilst adapting to a changing climate, rapid withdrawals of pesticides, altered supply chains and policy change is needed. 10 Hutton Highlights Innovation and adaptation are key to success across the farming sector and agri-tech is a vital component of this change: At the Hutton, we are involved in both the development and testing of innovative agri-tech and Andrew Christie, our agronomist and agri-Tech specialist has been involved in various projects, three of which are featured here. Tom v4 agri-tech robot In an international first, The James Hutton Institute took lease of Tom v4 robot this summer from the Small Robot Company in collaboration with the National Robotarium. An autonomous agri-tech robot, this valuable scientific tool will be used to scan agricultural fields to identify, locate and log individual weeds, streamline in-field phenotyping, bring added precision to scientific measurements and provide highresolution detail for per-plant analysis.
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