Swarm robots can 'reduce cost of wheat production.' An economic analysis based on the Hands Free Hectare (HFH) experience provides the first concrete evidence that crop robots will help make UK farmers more competitive and improve environmental management. That was the core message of a paper presented to the Agricultural Economics Society (AES) Annual Conference in April at Warwick by Professor Karl Behrendt, who holds the Elizabeth Creak Chair in Agri-Tech Economic Modeling at Harper Adams University. "Robotics will radically change the economies of scale in arable farming," Behrendt said. "Once human drivers are removed from farm equipment, The strategic importance and economic value of the British food and farming industry must not be overlooked in the Brexit discussions to come, the NFU has said today after it published new Defra figures as part of its State of the Farming Economy report.
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