James C. Sulecki

The inaugural Growing Innovations conference and tradeshow is slated for Nov. 7-8 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. As a service provider, you and your grower customers probably can agree on this much: While innovation abounds...

Simon Blackmore: “Agricultural robots are here. They are moving from academia into the commercial sector." The market for agricultural robotics market is small but burgeoning, and their impact is likely to be quite a bit more...

Aaron Ault: “From the farmer’s perspective, data has been the future for 25 years. Without an open-source platform, the ag-data market is negligible." To Aaron Ault’s eyes, ag technology right now is something like a walled...

So busy were we at PrecisionAg® in staying on top of this fast-changing industry that we nearly lost sight of an important milestone. Twenty years ago the first edition of PrecisionAg Illustrated – forebear to today’s PrecisionAg Professional and...

When John Deere acquired Blue River Technologies (BRT) recently, BRT’s See & Spray technology received plenty of play. Yet many vegetable growers already were familiar with the Lettuce Bot, the company’s lettuce-thinning technology, writes Jim Sulecki on GrowingProduce.com. And there...

John Deere’s recent acquisition of Blue River Technology (BRT) isn’t just meaningful for farmers. It suggests that the very systems that agriculture uses to deliver crop protection products are undergoing another convulsive change. Kiersten Stead of Monsanto Growth Ventures (MGV),...

A popular joke within the tech industry was trotted out at GAI AgTech Week in Boston, MA, speaking volumes about the continuing – but hopefully narrowing – divide between agriculture and the technologists who hope to transform it. Here’s how...

For the professionals and organizations providing agronomic and technology advice to farmers, the battle to create a sustainable service business has never been more challenging. The investment and ag-tech sectors’ continuing courtship of agriculture, smoldering for three...

PrecisionAg Professional magazine will debut in February 2017. Agricultural technology is accelerating, and precision agriculture is gaining renewed interest across cropping systems. At the same time, growers are busy, and they rely on their trusted advisors...

In the large open spaces of Planet Labs’ offices in San Francisco, CA, last spring, mounted screens tracked the locations of orbiting satellites beaming data to be processed and analyzed, a special team was sequestered away building new proprietary...

Whether Monsanto retains the Climate Corp. after various acquisition scenarios have played out or else Bayer CropScience or even some other entity ultimately holds title to it, the one-time “unicorn” tech startup acquired a few years ago for $1 billion...

Hypoxic “dead zones” are a continuing problem in areas ranging from Lake Erie to the Gulf of Mexico and beyond, but officials at Tulane University reckon there’s a solution to the problem somewhere out there, and they’re willing to...

As I made a West Coast swing this spring to visit companies including The Climate Corp. and Planet Labs, there was a palpable sense of – wow, the sky really now is the limit for precision agriculture. Or should I...

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