Kansas farmer invents robots to reduce pesticide use
ALICE MANNETTE, The Hutchinson News
July 9, 2021
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1of11A Greenfield Robotics robot travels in between rows of soybeans as it cuts down weeds in a field near Cheney, Kan., on Tuesday, July 6, 2021. In front of the robot is the density of weeds that will be cut and behind it shows the result. (Sandra J. Milburn/The Hutchinson News via AP)Sandra J. Milburn/The Hutchinson News/APShow MoreShow Less
2of11Nicholas Moehring, an electrical engineering intern from Wichita State University, solders while creating a wire harness for the robots as Andy Helten, right, senior engineer, works on a robot in the Greenfield Robotics shop near Cheney, Kan., on Tuesday, July 6, 2021. (Sandra J. Milburn/The Hutchinson News via AP)Sandra J. Milburn/The Hutchinson News/APShow MoreShow Less
CHENEY, Kan. (AP) – For years, Kansas farmer Clint Brauer has struggled with keeping weeds out of his row crops. Along with keeping living roots in the ground, organic practices and no-till methods, he tried crimping but the pigweeds just grew taller.
Three years ago, Brauer, an ex-California-based executive who farms in Haven and Cheney, decided to implement a wild plan, using robots to behead weeds. I realized there was no great way to get the weeds out at scale without chemicals, Brauer said. I needed to invent one.
He started Greenfield Robotics.
Before chemicals replaced them, workers pulled weeds from the farm. Greenfield Robotics puts the workers back in the field with a new kind of worker a mechanized one, The Hutchinson News reports.
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