Figure 1. The Harvest Automation HV-100 robot
THE RISE OF THE MACHINES A variety of cutting-edge, specialist equipment was on display at one of Europe’s leading nursery machinery trade shows.
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Baumschultechnik is a nursery machinery trade show staged in Ellerhoop, a few miles north of Hamburg in Germany. It attracts thousands of visitors from all over continental Europe, particularly growers of field-grown nursery stock. The show brings together a variety of specialist machinery manufacturers and distributors into a single location. A diverse array of equipment is on display, covering almost every aspect of production, including soil sterilisation, crop lifting, grading and bundling. Visitors can see new pieces of kit, upgrade old machinery, purchase spare parts and network with other growers. The show features a whole spectrum of machinery and automation, from simple wheelbarrows for delivering fertiliser to row-grown crops, through a range of tractor-mounted equipment, to robots for weeding and spacing containergrown plants.
