AgXeed
AgXeed builds autonomous diesel-electric field robots, its AgBots, alongside TraXwise, a platform that pre-plans, monitors and documents every field task. Control units also bring existing tractors and implements into the same connected system.
What is AgXeed?
AgXeed is a Dutch company that builds autonomous agricultural machines and the software that runs them. Four founders started it in the summer of 2018 in Venray; production now sits in Grubbenvorst, the first AgBot was sold commercially in 2022, and the range has since grown to four series, all diesel-electric: the T2 7 SERIES at 170 kW (230 hp), the T2 5 SERIES at 115 kW (156 hp), and the W3 2 and W4 2 SERIES at 55 kW (75 hp). The tracked T2 machines handle broad arable work, the W3 is built for orchards and tree nurseries, the W4 for lighter tillage and specialty crops.
The machine is only half of it. TraXwise is where the work is defined before anyone reaches the field: driving lines, headland sequences, speeds, working depths and hydraulic flow rates are set once, the platform generates the optimised routing and the task file, and the task is transmitted to an AgBot or to a third-party tractor carrying AgXeed's Vehicle Control Unit over ISOBUS TIM. A Tool Control Unit does the same for implements, spotting blocked rows, empty hoppers or sheared bolts and pushing alerts back into the platform.
Autonomy here means unsupervised work inside a surveyed, geofenced field. Each machine ships with a CE declaration of conformity, obstacle detection and emergency protocols; the approved autonomous speed tops out at 13.5 km/h; and a task halts by itself if the mobile signal has not come back within twenty minutes. AgXeed claims up to twenty running hours per tank at 75% engine load, up to 2,000 operating hours a year, labour savings of up to 90% and total cost reductions of 25 to 35% against conventional tractors. Two published customer accounts report 600 hours in three and a half months, and 1,200 hours in a first season without a single road journey.
Twenty-four use cases are documented with implement, speed, fuel use and soil type, from stubble tillage and subsoiling to seeding, ridge forming, intra-row weeding, orchard spraying and spot spraying. Everything is sold through a dealer network, and no price is published.
What it does
- Plan a complete field task in advance, implement settings included, and generate the routing automatically
- Send the task to an autonomous AgBot or to a tractor fitted with a Vehicle Control Unit
- Run tillage, seeding, mowing, weeding and spraying work without an operator in the cab
- Track machines and implements live from a phone, tablet or computer, camera feeds included
- Receive real-time alerts when an implement blocks, empties or breaks a shear bolt
- Document every operation automatically for traceability and later analysis
- Stay inside surveyed field boundaries through geofencing, obstacle detection and emergency protocols
When to use AgXeed / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if AgXeed is the right fit.
When to use AgXeed
- Arable farmers running broad-acre tillage, seeding and mowing who want machine hours without extra drivers
- Vegetable, bulb and specialty crop growers working narrow beds where a lighter machine protects soil structure
- Orchard and tree nursery operators needing precise spraying, mowing and intra-row weeding between rows
- Agricultural contractors chasing maximum machine utilisation across several holdings in short agronomic windows
- Farm businesses that already own tractors and implements and want to automate them through control units rather than replace them
When not to use AgXeed
- Smallholders and hobby growers, since every machine is a capital purchase quoted through a dealer
- Anyone expecting a self-service signup: field surveying, commissioning and certification all run through a distributor
- Operations needing road travel between plots, as the machines are designed to work inside surveyed field boundaries
- Farms in areas with weak satellite coverage or unreliable mobile data, where tasks halt automatically after twenty minutes offline
- Users of non-standard implements, since the AgBots are built around conventional three-point linkage attachments
How to use AgXeed
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Contact AgXeed or a local dealer: there is no online purchase or self-service signup
- Have a certified professional survey each field on site with GNSS to map its exact boundaries
- Let the dealer define the safety buffers that keep the machine away from roads, ditches and treelines
- Receive the geofences uploaded into your own TraXwise portal, with your AgBots already registered
- Digitise your implements in the portal and pair them virtually with the machines that will carry them
- Pre-plan the task: pick the field, choose the machine and implement combination, set speed, depth and hydraulic flow, select the A-B reference line
- Let TraXwise generate the optimised routing and the complete task file
- Send the task to the AgBot or to the VCU-equipped tractor over an active internet connection
- Follow progress live in the TraXwise web portal, TraXwise Mobile or TraXwise Command, with sensor data and on-board camera feeds
- Pause or stop the mission at any time from the monitor, then review the automatically documented results
Pros & Cons
Pros
- A complete system rather than an app: machines, planning platform and retrofit units share one ecosystem
- Commercially deployed since 2022, with customer operating hours published rather than promised
- Soil protection is measured, not just claimed: the T2 7 SERIES stays under 30 kPa ground pressure
- Near round-the-clock work widens the agronomic windows that labour shortages usually close
- Existing tractors and implements can join the system without replacing the fleet
- Every machine ships with CE marking and an EC declaration of conformity naming the standards applied
- Four series cover arable, vegetables, orchards and tree nurseries rather than a single machine format
Cons
- No public pricing at all: every figure comes through a dealer quotation
- This is capital equipment, not a subscription, so the entry cost is a machine purchase
- Commissioning cannot be done alone: a professional GNSS field survey is mandatory for each field
- Operation depends on satellite coverage and stable mobile data, with tasks halting automatically after twenty minutes offline
- No free trial and no free tier are offered or mentioned
- No data processing agreement, no subprocessor list and no security certification are published
- TraXwise Mobile is referenced but no App Store or Google Play listing is linked anywhere on the site
Pricing & Plans
There is no free plan and no published price. AgXeed operates no pricing page: its FAQ states that questions about the price of the different AgBots should be sent to customer@agxeed.com, and machines are sold through the dealer network on quotation. The only cost figures released are comparative claims, namely labour savings of up to 90% and a 25 to 35% reduction in total cost against conventional tractors, together with per-operation fuel consumption ranging from 5 l/h for nursery weeding to 29.4 l/ha for disc harrowing. No currency, no entry price point and no subscription tier are disclosed.
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how AgXeed handles your data.
GDPR overview
GDPR implementation is explicit but limited to the website and commercial contacts. The privacy notice carries a dedicated section for the EU and the UK, listing the legal bases relied on: consent, legitimate interests, legal obligations and vital interests. It sets out rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability and objection, the right to withdraw consent at any time, and the right to complain to a national supervisory authority, with a pointer to the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner. Requests go to info@agxeed.com or by post to Grubbenvorst. As the company is established in the Netherlands, no Article 27 representative is required or named. There is no data processing agreement, no subprocessor list and no security certification published anywhere on the site.
Who owns the data?
The published privacy notice, dated 14 May 2024, names AgXeed B.V. as the party that collects and processes personal information, and gives visitors the right to request access, correction or deletion through a data subject access request or by writing to info@agxeed.com. It covers names, contact details, job titles, device data and location, and allows sharing during a merger, sale or financing, plus with Google Maps Platform APIs. It says nothing about ownership of the agronomic data a farm generates in TraXwise, so field boundaries, task files and machine records are governed by no published clause.
Reuse rights
The terms grant no reuse rights to the reader: AgXeed states it owns or licenses all site content, code, databases, designs, text, images and trademarks, and nothing in the documents permits copying or redistributing them without permission. On the customer's own side, the platform is described as a place to store, share and analyse the farm's own operational data, and the privacy notice lets an individual obtain a copy of their personal information. No clause defines whether task files, field maps or machine telemetry may be exported or reused outside the platform, nor whether AgXeed may exploit them commercially.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
Hosting is documented for the website and only briefly. The terms state that the site is hosted in the Netherlands and that using it means transferring personal data to the Netherlands, where it is processed, with Dutch law governing the agreement and the Dutch courts holding non-exclusive jurisdiction. DNS resolution is consistent with that: the domain answers on an address geolocated in Venlo, Netherlands, on a Dutch autonomous system. For the product itself, the FAQ says only that pre-planned tasks are saved securely in the cloud and transmitted to the machine over an active internet connection, without naming a country, a region or a hosting provider. No trust or security page, no list of data centres and no subprocessor disclosure exists, so the location of field maps, task files and machine telemetry is not publicly established.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting AgXeed.
- Savings of up to 90% on labour and 25-35% on total cost are the manufacturer's own claims, not independently audited figures
- Unsupervised autonomy is safe only inside the limits of the operator manual, an accurate survey and active geofences: a sloppy field setup moves the risk onto the ground
- National rules on highly automated agricultural vehicles differ, and AgXeed asks to be told about local restrictions rather than listing them itself
- The privacy notice is a generic template dated May 2024, citing HIPAA, GLBA and Canadian law, and says nothing about the farm data flowing through TraXwise
- No data processing agreement, subprocessor list or security certification is published, which leaves a business dependency undocumented
- Handing planning to the platform can erode the operator's own feel for the field, the kind of judgement that only survives by being used
- A single connectivity or satellite failure stops the work: automation concentrates the risk that several drivers used to spread
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Low for the farmer, but not self-service. The dealer does the demanding part: a one-time GNSS survey of each field, safety buffers away from roads and ditches, and the geofences uploaded to the customer's TraXwise portal, where the AgBots already appear at first login. The customer then digitises implements and pairs them virtually with the machines. After that, building a mission takes four steps in the interface. Certification is required to upload boundaries and transmit missions, so competence is assumed, not installation skill.
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Frequently asked questions
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Should you pick AgXeed?
AgXeed is one of the few autonomous farming propositions that has left the demonstration stage. Machines have been sold and delivered since 2022, four series now cover arable land, vegetables, orchards and tree nurseries, customers publish operating hours rather than intentions, and the 2025 launch of the T2 7 SERIES added 230 hp to a range whose defining argument is ground pressure below 30 kPa. TraXwise is the part that makes the rest usable: plan the work once, send it to a machine, watch it happen, and keep the record automatically. The Vehicle and Tool Control Units matter just as much, because they let a farm reach the same system without replacing equipment it already owns.
The reservations are commercial and documentary rather than technical. Nothing can be evaluated on price, since none is published and every figure arrives through a dealer quotation. Commissioning is not self-service: each field needs a professional GNSS survey before a machine will work it, and the whole purchase runs through a distributor. Operation leans on satellite coverage and mobile data, with an automatic halt after twenty minutes offline. The legal paperwork is thinner than the engineering: a generic privacy notice dated May 2024 that still mentions HIPAA and Canadian law, no data processing agreement, no subprocessor list, no security certification, and no clause anywhere describing who owns the agronomic data a farm accumulates in TraXwise.
For a working farm or a contractor with the capital and a dealer nearby, this is a credible answer to labour shortage and soil compaction at the same time. Ask for the operator manual, the data terms and a reference customer before signing, since the vendor's savings figures remain the vendor's own.
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