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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.
Olathe biotech startup represents Kansas in MassChallenge’s 50th accelerator program
Olathe biotech startup represents Kansas in MassChallenge’s 50th accelerator program
A.J. Mellott, Ronawk
More than 3,000 startups across the world applied to the 2021 MassChallenge accelerator program with Olathe-based biotechnology lab Ronawk earning one of the 229 slots to participate, shared A.J. Mellott.
“[MassChallenge] has a really good reputation for accelerating companies that are in the startup mode and growing,” said Mellott, who co-founded Ronawk in 2019 with fellow scientist Heather Decker. “We’re given access to a wide network of mentors, resources and investors, along with helping companies in refining the pitch.”
Wed, 07/07/2021
LAWRENCE Between 1918 and 1942, the majority of those sentenced to the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women were there not because they committed murder or robbery. They were there for having sex sometimes merely for sex with their husbands.
“I found so many parallels between now and then with public health, access to health care for poor people and questions about the role the prison system should play in our daily lives,” said Nicole Perry, assistant director at the Center for Undergraduate Research at the University of Kansas.
“I think we would be wise to learn some lessons from this.”