Yamaha Agriculture is increasing the capabilities of its Prospr autonomous farming platform with a brand new herbicide attachment designed to automate weed management in orchards and vineyards.
Developed with Croplands Equipment, the system provides precision herbicide software to Prospr’s rising checklist of autonomous discipline operations, serving to specialty crop growers cut back labor necessities, enhance spraying consistency, and enhance operational effectivity.
Designed to combine seamlessly with Prospr, the brand new attachment extends automation throughout a wider vary of orchard and winery duties and might be showcased at Hort Connections 2026 in South Australia subsequent week.
Yamaha Agriculture president and CEO Nolan Paul mentioned specialty crop growers are searching for sensible, scalable automation applied sciences that may assist them be extra sustainable, environment friendly and worthwhile at the moment, whereas additionally making ready for the longer term.
Paul mentioned: “Prospr was constructed to carry out at the moment and for the longer term. It’s modular, AI-powered and may accommodate attachments made by our companions for a spread of duties. The brand new herbicide attachment highlights the platform’s flexibility to seamlessly assist a number of functions throughout vineyards and orchards all through the rising cycle.
“The brand new herbicide functionality addresses an actual want for growers looking for automation that integrates seamlessly into current applications, significantly the place labour availability and timing are a problem, similar to weed management which impacts the standard and efficiency of the grown crop.
“In partnership with growers, we’re constructing a seamlessly related future the place sensing, autonomy, and intelligence work collectively to assist them plan, act, and adapt with confidence.”
Prospr herbicide attachment extends automation throughout vineyards and orchards
Designed to combine seamlessly with Prospr, the brand new herbicide attachment means growers can change instruments rapidly and automate a wider vary of orchard and winery duties. The system delivers exact weed-control software designed to cut back waste and enhance operational effectivity throughout each go, even in unpredictable situations.
Key herbicide attachment options embrace:
- Automated spraying capabilities together with nozzle activation, tank agitation, liquid degree sensing, and real-time price changes based mostly on automobile velocity.
- Mechanical breakaway growth arms designed to soak up impression and assist defend crops and tools when working round bushes, vines, and posts.
- Versatile chemical administration with choices for direct tank mixing or inline dosing for extra exact focus management and software administration.
All herbicide attachment configurations combine with the Yamaha Agriculture administration and planning interface, together with the multi-vehicle distant (MVR), enabling operators to oversee and handle a number of autonomous autos from a single interface, successfully and safely.
Prospr autonomous platform helps a number of instruments and attachments
Prospr is already remodeling orchard and winery administration throughout america, Australia, and New Zealand.
With market-leading autonomy designed to scale from small, complicated blocks to massive, contiguous manufacturing environments, Prospr helps a variety of orchard and winery duties, together with clever crop spraying and herbicide spray software.
Paul mentioned: “Prospr was designed as a versatile autonomous platform able to supporting a number of instruments and attachments from varied producers on a single automobile, whereas integrating discipline operations with knowledge and analytics.
“Its hybrid diesel-electric drive system helps as much as 40 hours of runtime and reduces gasoline consumption by as much as 70 p.c, whereas precision spraying applied sciences, distant fleet administration capabilities, and multi-vehicle operation helps growers enhance operational effectivity, consistency, sustainability, and security throughout orchard and winery operations.”
The Prospr platform options quick row-to-row turns designed for environment friendly operation in tight orchard and winery environments, alongside job planning and speed-controlled zones that assist standardize operations and assist extra constant passes with higher productiveness.
A particularly designed chassis and tire configuration are designed to cut back floor compaction, whereas connectivity, over-the-air updates, and distant diagnostics assist uptime and fleet administration for prime tempo rising operations.
Precision spraying functionality contains electrically pushed Quantum followers with zone and fan-level management for optimum chemical software, whereas multi-vehicle operation allows one to 2 operators to oversee a group of Prospr autonomous autos working collaboratively.
Yamaha Agriculture builds related precision agriculture methods
Yamaha Agriculture’s rising portfolio contains the Prospr autonomous hybrid automobile platform, AI-powered yield prediction and analytics, built-in farm administration methods, and expertise for autonomous fruit packing.
Designed as related methods, Yamaha Agriculture’s {hardware}, software program, and knowledge platforms work collectively to assist growers enhance operational effectivity, sustainability, and decision-making throughout the rising cycle.
“From AI-powered yield prediction and useful resource prioritization by to autonomous spraying and built-in farm administration methods, we’re constructing related applied sciences that assist growers function extra effectively, make better-informed selections, and adapt to altering situations throughout each season.”
