Farm
Taylor Farms said it had weeded more than 2,100 acres with Vulcan that season.
A dated step forward on the record · Sets Vulcan's stage
What the source says
“We have weeded over 2,100 acres already this season,”
What it means
Vulcan, from FarmWise (owned by Taylor Farms since 2025), is at stage 4 of 5 on our ladder: paying customers. This event is one of the milestones that placed it there.
Human help: The maker hasn't said whether people help it remotely.
More on Vulcan
- Taylor Farms bought FarmWise and said it would move the business over so Vulcan customers kept getting service.
- FarmWise said it would wind down by 1 April 2025 because it could not become profitable with the money it had raised.
- FarmWise signed an exclusive deal for the dealer RDO Equipment to sell and deliver Vulcan to more growers.
- FarmWise said its older self-driving Titan robot would be dropped in favour of the pulled machines.
- FarmWise showed Vulcan, a tractor-pulled weeder for lettuce and cabbage-family crops, at a farm robot event in Salinas, California.
- FarmWise raised $45 million. The salad grower Taylor Farms, already a customer, joined as an investor.