Popped over to Internet of Things World in Silicon Valley, CA, last week, and during one talk on heavy equipment, I couldn’t help think about the many concerns I’ve heard from large fruit, nut, and vegetable producers here in...

The VISION Conference has become established as the definitive precision agriculture and digital farming conference for North America. Pictured: Meister Media Worldwide Group Editor Paul Schrimpf moderates a session at the 2019 VISION Conference in...

Agricultural technologies offer a pathway to a more sustainable future – one in which farmers can both improve their yields and drive down waste, writes Ayal Karmi for Scientific American. Artificial intelligence, data analytics, and even drones are among...

Two powerful trends – the Internet of Things (IoT) and data analytics – are generating lots of press for their industrial and infrastructure applications, writes Rich Quinnell for EE Times. But there is another application space that is quietly...

Growers Edge today introduced an extensive lineup of fintech solutions for growers, agribusiness, distribution partners and institutions to accelerate the adoption of agtech innovations while managing risk. “Growers Edge has created an unmatched network of technology, insurance and farm partners...

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...

Plenty of challenges come with managing growers’ data. Defining when one crop year ends and the next begins. Establishing boundaries. And trying to work with inconsistent, inaccurate, or ‘dirty’ data tops the list. Editor's note: This...

For six generations, Ben Riensche’s family has tended corn and soybeans outside Jesup, a town of 2,500 on the windswept plains of eastern Iowa, writes Andrew Marc Noel on Bloomberg.com. But today he’s harvesting a valuable new crop from...

Image Credit: AgNewsWire/Chuck Zimmerman A little over a week and a half ago, the 2019 Commodity Classic took over the sprawling Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL, for the annual celebration of American farmers and...

Sentera announces the release of the 2019 PHX fixed-wing drone, with updates that deliver our customers' most-requested features. PHX has been equipped with a new, longer-range high-speed datalink, an omnidirectional antenna system, and an upgraded, higher-capacity battery. Imaging and...

Valmont Industries, Inc., a leading global provider of engineered products and services for infrastructure and irrigation equipment for agriculture and the parent company of Valley Irrigation, and Prospera Technologies Inc., a leading Israeli machine vision and artificial intelligence (AI)...

https://youtu.be/nKAz-g7MAxs John Deere's new Farm Forward video is a vision of how technology could drive increased productivity to feed a growing population. It was created to inspire conversations and help farmers visualize what the future of their farm will be....

FluroSat, Australia’s leading crop health analytics startup, recently led a successful bid with commercial partners Agworld, PCT Agcloud, AgLink Australia, and CSIRO for a A$3M Cooperative Research Centres Project (CRC-P) grant. The aim of the grant funding is to...

Ah yes, time again for our annual click-collecting effort here on PrecisionAg.com, otherwise known as our (quasi) annual list of companies that we think will make news in precision farming circles in 2019. Our 2018 entry in the series...

AeroVironment today introduced the next generation of its Quantix VTOL hybrid drone and the AeroVironment Decision Support System (AV DSS) for precision agriculture. Enhancements across the Quantix & AV DSS ecosystem deliver a combination of new features, performance improvements...

Airbus has launched an innovative service called Verde that delivers detailed crop analytics from satellite imagery, perfectly clipped to the field and accurately de-clouded. Served as plug and play API to any precision agriculture portal, Verde provides reliable and...

My revelatory moment came near the end of a keynote presentation at last summer’s International Conference of Precision Agriculture in Montreal, QC, Canada. The University of Montreal’s Prof. Yoshua Bengio, a global leader in deep learning research, had just concluded...

As another year passes, business leaders are wise to examine their current operations and consider their position in the marketplace. 2019 will undoubtedly see further emergence of new data technologies. Businesses that adapt are well-placed to use these technologies...

Farm Dog Technologies, a precision agriculture platform for pest and disease management, is now providing free access to its digital platform for all Extension Agents. "We are proud to offer our award-winning precision agriculture platform for free to all Extension...

A man walks past a scaled-down replica of the SAOCOM 1-A/B satellite on display at Argentina’s space agency CONAE in Buenos Aires, Argentina September 20, 2018. — Reuters photo Like the flying objects that convey its...