I took this video on an organic vegetable farm in Switzerland in early spring in a large broccoli field a few years ago. This was the second weeding after transplanting I believe. There was a major flush of weeds which you can see at around 20 seconds, and most of them were bigger than ideal (2+ leaves). Then you can see the success of the Robocrop in getting most but not all of these weeds. Broccoli got knocked around a bit but nothing too damaging overall. At the very end of the video you can see another tractor in the distance that had a set of finger weeders on it. It was moving a lot faster and getting similar or better control of these weeds without damaging the broccoli. But for more leafy crops like lettuce the Robocrop is safer.
24 сен 2024