Labor costs form an integral part of a producer's production costs and labor increases will therefore directly affect the profitability of producers.

The agricultural sector is under pressure. They are asked to produce more and more food using fewer and fewer resources.

A Dutch strawberry grower built his own spraying robot. Although this autonomous vehicle looks like a prototype, it has proven to be fully operational and is being deployed without problems in strawberry tunnels

Single-seed planters using technologies developed by US manufacturer Precision Planting are being evaluated in Europe for the first time.

The Jacto 4000 JAV sprayer can operate autonomously. Laser-scanning ensures optimised application.

Agricultural equipment makers such as Kubota and John Deere also recognise as farming, which has traditionally been a generational business, is eroded as youngsters move away from the country, there is also a need to provide a transition to a new way of farming.