GiSC (Grower Information Services Cooperative), the agricultural industry's only grower-run data cooperative, and Main Street Data, an agricultural data analytics company, are joining forces with IBM to introduce a suite of data-driven solutions to help growers improve their yields,...

It’s fascinating to see how modern technology has helped us increase our agricultural productivity in areas not otherwise suited for our higher value crops. When viewing the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles and southwest Kansas in Google Earth (see below),...

According to McKinsey, the agricultural sector is the least digitized industry in the U.S., writes Tony Baer on ZDNet.com. Yet, agriculture already produces large volumes of data -- especially from IoT. There's hardly a lack of scenarios for digitizing...

Deep in the midst of December downtime, we reached out to three retailers well-versed in running a grower-facing precision ag department and asked them to share what's worked at their outlets and with their sales teams in driving grower...

CNH Industrial and The Climate Corporation announced today a new partnership that will extend and develop a portfolio of data sharing capabilities to help farmers with real-time agronomic visualization and decision-making solutions. Case IH and New Holland Agriculture, the global...

I am a firm believer that data, especially map-based data, must be experienced. Seeing your data as a map in addition to a report or spreadsheet will always be of value as a step on the data literacy path....

Blockchain technology has several uses in the agriculture industry: Documentation for certifications. One of the most aligned applications is providing documentation and authentication of records for crop or livestock certifications. For crop certifications, the use of a blockchain allows for...

Growers are very mindful of their data and the importance of owning the rights to it. Even still, many are willingly giving their data to corporations in order to improve their productivity, increase their yield, and make their farms...

My friends, as many of you told me repeatedly throughout the last 12 months, 2017 was an interesting year in Ag Tech. We witnessed needle-moving mergers and acquisitions (Deere-Blue River; AGCO-Precision Planting; FieldReveal, etc.), intriguing product launches (SmartFirmer, Sentera's Phoenix...

The digital revolution is changing the way agriculture is done. Rapid population growth, changes in market demands, depleting agricultural land, and significant changes in climate patterns, including much more frequent extreme events — all these factors are pushing agriculture out...

Probably most professionals who deal with business data have at least heard the term “blockchain” bantered about as potentially the “next big thing” for a wide range of industries, agriculture included. But what is it? One could imagine a Jerry...

For you sports junkies out there, if I could prove to you that I can correctly predict winners and losers with 80% accuracy, would you use my advice in Las Vegas? I don’t gamble, but according to this article...

AgGateway's Precision Agriculture and Grain & Feed councils have issued a call for participation for a proof-of-concept initiative in AgGateway's ongoing grain traceability project; the deadline is January 23 to express interest in participating. The Commodity Automation by Rail...

All service technicians have heard this line. Most often when spring makes its anticipated return to our lives. It is the phone call or text most often received by me, and any other technology specialist, early in the morning,...

It is here again--the end of another year. For me, this is always a good time to take a look back at some of the big stories from the past year, writes Ag Law Blog author and attorney Todd...

It was an exciting year in farm technology involving a few high profile venture capital exits and some of the largest deals on record, writes AgFunder.com's Emma Cosgrove. In fact, funding records for this category and the subcategories within were...

As the outside temperature regularly reads over 40 degrees Celsius, Australian cotton growers have again reached one of the busiest times of the season: irrigation time! With some fields that are irrigated by overhead equipment as an exception, flood...

Blockchain can be the “key mediator” to make supply chains more transparent by enabling food firms to share data based on trust, and to transform their operations to be much more efficient, but it will require a fundamental shift...

Seated from left: Prof. Dr. Arno Ruckelshausen, Dr. Bernd Scherer, and Dr. Reinhard Grandke. While North American growers slog through yet another season of depressed farm incomes and commodity markets, across the pond it’s looking like...

If you checked the Internet lately, you’ve probably seen the words, Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and blockchain. I won’t describe them in great detail here, but Google is your friend. Currently, Bitcoin is the talk of the town gaining 1,000% in value...