Data Management
January 11, 2016
As farmers face continuing economic challenges, a FarmLink analysis of its proprietary benchmark data found that for the second year in a row approximately one third of farm operations could have earned additional revenue in 2015, totaling $8.1 billion across...
Data Management
January 11, 2016
Measure has released the first-ever Drone Flight Calculator to help farmers assess the value of using drones in their agriculture operations. The Web-based application is the direct result of a study and flight operations conducted with the American Farm Bureau...
Data Management
January 11, 2016
Dr. Mark Trotter, senior lecturer in precision agriculture at the University of New England, oversees data streaming from the university's SMARTfarm Learning Hub. Photo credit: ABC Rural, Lisa Herbert
A project to connect students with data...
Data Management
January 11, 2016
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Technology Convergence Enabling Precision Agriculture (TechVision)" report to their offering.
Precision agriculture is an emerging concept in the field of agriculture. Unlike conventional methods, where the farmers decision making is based...
Data Management
January 8, 2016
Top Intelligence, Inc., an Iowa-based ag technology business, has partnered with AgPixel to provide high-resolution aerial imagery to growers throughout Iowa and Nebraska. Headquartered in Honey Creek, IA, Top Intelligence is one of the premier aerial solution providers in...
Data Management
January 7, 2016
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Precision Farming for Crop Protection 2015" report to their offering. According to the report, the global market for precision farming technologies is forecast to reach a value of nearly $4 billion...
Data Management
January 6, 2016
Septentrio, a provider of GNSS receivers, announces the availability of its geographical information systems (GIS) PinPoint-GIS on the ArcGIS Marketplace. PinPoint-GIS was developed to enable straightforward GIS data collection without the need for expensive additional software linking a GNSS...
Data Management
January 5, 2016
MapShots, Inc. and Trimble today announced a new integration that allows all users of MapShots’ signature AgStudio software platform to read as-applied maps and production data from Trimble's Connected Farm solution. Previously, AgStudio software users could only read harvest...
Data Management
December 22, 2015
DuPont Pioneer and Trimble today announced a collaborative effort that will give growers increased access to field data to help improve their productivity and profitability acre-by-acre. The collaboration allows for the seamless flow of information between the Trimble Connected...
Data Management
December 21, 2015
More than 650 of America’s most innovative farmers, industry representatives, pioneers and master practitioners of data analytics came together at the first ever Farmer2Farmer Conference, hosted by Farmers Business Network. Experts in areas such as professional sports and the...
Data Management
December 17, 2015
Farmobile, a fast-growing technology company specializing in farm data, has announced the completion of a $5.5 million Series A round of equity investment, led by Anterra Capital. The financing will be used to develop and distribute new modules on...
Data Management
December 16, 2015
On the heels of its entrance into the U.S. market earlier this year, Farmers Edge has announced it is expanding its sales and operations teams throughout the nation and will have a presence throughout the nation's major growing regions,...
Data Management
December 15, 2015
A more technological approach to farming is crucial for meeting the needs of an extra 2.4 billion extra people who are expected to swell the world’s population by 2050, according a new EU study and reported on by YorkshirePost.co.uk.
Yet...
Data Management
December 15, 2015
A screenshot from Agrible's Find My Seed tool.
Agrible, Inc., creators of the Morning Farm Report suite of predictive analytics tools, today launched Find My Seed, an independent, free seed selection tool for growers. Find My...
Data Management
December 15, 2015
One of the unique components of 4R Nutrient Stewardship that separates it from traditional nutrient management planning strategies is the inclusion of performance indicators.
Performance indicators are parameters that can be used to objectively evaluate outcomes from a specific set...
Data Management
December 14, 2015
Analysts forecast global precision agriculture market to grow at a CAGR of 14.43% over the period 2014-2019, according to the recent report "Global Precision Agriculture Market 2015-2019."
"As farmers worldwide grow increasingly wary of the effects of agriculture on the...
Data Management
December 14, 2015
Typically in the tech/startup world, when a major player like Google comes knocking on the Angel Investment door people start paying attention, reports Matthew Grassi on CropLife.com.
Back in May, Google Ventures came knocking at the door of San Carlos,...
Data Management
December 14, 2015
A new Copa and Cogeca Task Force debated in Brussels last week the importance of technology in modern farming – big data and precision farming – to improve farmers returns, reports FarmingLife.com.
“Innovation contributes to a competitive, efficient EU agriculture...
Data Management
December 11, 2015
As part of its ramp-up for the 2016 season, software manufacturer FarmLogs this week unveiled two recommendation-based products: Nitrogen Monitoring and Variable Rate Prescriptions for seeding and nitrogen. The new features are available immediately.
"We’ve taken a huge step forward in our...
Data Management
December 9, 2015
Cibus, a leader in non-transgenic breeding and precision gene editing, announced today the publication of the article “Oligonucleotide-directed Mutagenesis for Precision Gene Editing” in Plant Biotechnology Journal, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell in association with the Society for Experimental...
