Market Intelligence
December 25, 2023
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Digital Farming
August 15, 2023
The Role of AI in Agrifood
Every executive is asking and being asked, “What is your company’s AI strategy?” Discussed at business dinners and board rooms, the potential of AI to inform decision making, growth strategies and operational efficiencies has taken center stage, writes Anastasia...
Farm to Fork
November 1, 2022
How Vertical Farming and Agtech Can Help Address Food Insecurity
Advancements in agtech improve indoor farming productivity so that firms can produce greater amounts of product in year-round operations.
Market Watch
May 12, 2022
How the Food Industry Can Meet the Needs for Traceability and Sustainability
Modern agriculture and food production need to be recalibrated to support the sustainability demands and traceability requirements that come with them.
Analytics
May 2, 2022
10 Digital Technologies That Are Transforming Agriculture
From robotics to connectivity, technological transformation offers tremendous possibility for the farming and food sectors.
Market Watch
January 31, 2022
5 Trends Farmers and Tech Companies Are Betting The Farm On
What's the future of Agtech? Farmers and tech companies weigh in.
Market Watch
August 23, 2021
How Agtech Can Help Break The Poverty Cycle in Developing Countries
Developing countries should import technologies that have been tried and tested in developed countries and investing in training local people to use it.
Market Watch
March 23, 2021
This Winery and Tomato Processor Used Artificial Intelligence to Make Their Crops Better
Learn how The Morningstar Company is using new ag technologies based on AI to help improve farming decisions.
Market Watch
January 4, 2021
Agtech Attracts Celebrities
Food and farming are attracting celebrity investment including from Meghan Markle, Oprah, and Katy Perry to name a few.
Market Watch
November 21, 2019
Using Blockchain To Make Fragmented Food Supply Chains Traceable
Here are two trends: More retailers want to know where their food comes from, mostly because more consumers are asking for that information, writes Anne Field at Forbes. And a slew of startups are turning to blockchain technology, not...
Market Watch
October 8, 2019
Agriculture Gets A Blockchain Boost Through Bayer and Alibaba’s Ant Financial
The disruptive and dynamic potential of blockchain is already well heralded. However, its reach is only now starting to permeate through significant enterprises that are helping boost the capabilities of the blockchain, writes Darryn Pollock at Forbes. A recent partnership...
Market Watch
July 25, 2019
Why This AgTech Founder Believes Climate Change Demands Industry-Wide Innovation
The planet’s exponential population growth and redistribution correspond with increased CO2 emissions that will continue to magnify the impact of global warming in the coming decades, according to an article at Forbes. By 2050, the world’s population will include...
Market Watch
July 11, 2019
How AI Is Transforming Agriculture
Farms produce hundreds of thousands of data points on the ground daily, Forbes notes. With the help of AI, farmers can now analyze a variety of things in real time such as weather conditions, temperature, water usage or soil...
Market Watch
June 12, 2019
John Deere Ecosystem a Case Study in Innovation, Agility, and Growth
By Norma Watenpaugh, CEO of PhoenixCG specializing in collaborative business ecosystems to accelerate innovation and open new markets.
As someone who has been architecting and managing business partner ecosystems for more than 30 years in the tech industry, I am quite interested in...
Market Watch
June 4, 2019
Ag CEOs Discuss Technology Behind Future Farming
As the food industry continues to evolve, advanced technology is becoming a more prominent part of farming, writes Forbes Contributor Lana Bandoim. In recent interviews, three experts shared their ideas about the future of farming and tech.
Ofir Schlam, CEO...
Industry News
March 25, 2019
Agtech Takes Center Stage At USDA Ag Forum
"Food production in the 21st century requires enormous ingenuity, technological savvy and expertise," said Christopher Giancarlo, Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, writes Donald Marvin on Forbes.com.
Giancarlo was one of the high-profile speakers at February's USDA 95th...
Irrigation
March 20, 2019
U.S.: How To Transform 60,000 Irrigation Pivots Into Autonomous Growing Machines
Prospera, an Israeli ag-tech company, plans to turn 60,000 irrigation pivots in open fields into artificial intelligence (AI) autonomous growing machines that can operate 24/7, writes Jennifer Kite-Powell on Forbes.com. Through a new partnership with irrigation company Valley, the...
Analytics
March 18, 2019
U.S.: The Amazing Ways John Deere Uses AI And Machine Vision
Leading the way in using drive increasingly sophisticated data and analytics tools to drive efficiencies and cut waste in agriculture and food production is John Deere, writes futurist Bernard Marr on Forbes.com. The 180-year-old manufacturer of farming and industrial machinery...
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