Market Watch
January 10, 2019
The drive toward automation from planting to harvest is underway in the specialty crop industry, writes Frank Giles on GrowingProduce.com. Growers are taking matters into their own hands developing and commercializing new technology in response to a dwindling labor...
Farm to Fork
August 24, 2018
When the Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) was standardized in 1982, permitting the worldwide proliferation of interconnected networks and eventually the internet, very few would have ever dreamed of the digital information age it would unleash, writes Frank Giles on...
In-Field Technologies
April 11, 2018
For Harvest CROO Robotics’ automated strawberry harvester, the picking wheel is the heart of technology with cameras to identify ripe berries and clamps to pick them. Photo courtesy of Harvest CROO Robotics
While the immigration debate...
Drones | UAVs
March 13, 2018
This unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is equipped with a LiDAR camera. Photo courtesy of UF/IFAS
Dr. Yiannis Ampatzidis recently joined the faculty at UF/IFAS Southwest Florida Research and Education Center (SWFREC) in Immokalee, writes Frank Giles on...
Market Watch
January 17, 2018
Brittany Lee of Waldo-based Florida Blue Farms stands in front of a young planting of blueberries. Photo by Frank Giles
Brittany Lee is no stranger to land management, writes Frank Giles on GrowingProduce.com. She grew up around it,...
Market Watch
January 23, 2017
Technology is going mobile, allowing growers to access information in the field from tablets or phones. Photo courtesy of Highland Precision Ag
This year, the iPhone will celebrate its 10th birthday. In only a decade, smartphones...