Digital Farming
February 27, 2019
The drone-deployable, multi spectral sensing unit that will capture the insights that power Syngenta and Sony's new Smart Agriculture Solution.
As part of the 2019 Commodity Classic Convention & Expo in Orlando, FL, this week, Syngenta...
Digital Farming
February 27, 2019
Today, xarvio Digital Farming Solutions by BASF launched the xarvio Field Manager for the U.S. market at Commodity Classic tradeshow in Orlando, FL, according to a press release distributed by the Associated Press (AP).
The new digital product supports growers...
Analytics
February 25, 2019
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)...
Data Management
February 22, 2019
Instagram models and pizza - strange bedfellows perhaps back in the Nineties - but in today’s anything-goes, Internet-driven society? Like milk and cookies, my friends….
Here’s another coupling to add to the strange bedfellows list: Domino’s Pizza and Artificial...
Analytics
February 21, 2019
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....
Data Management
February 15, 2019
John Deere precision agriculture technology and tools, such as JDLink in the John Deere Operations Center, can be helpful in the tracking, organization, and compiling of information needed for standard annual reporting.
The USDA reporting is...
Analytics
February 15, 2019
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...
Analytics
February 14, 2019
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...
Analytics
February 12, 2019
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...
Connectivity
February 5, 2019
Jeremy Leifker welcomes attendees to the 2019 Develop With Deere Conference Jan. 23, 2019, at the Chicago Sheraton Grand in downtown Chicago, IL. (Photo Courtesy - AgNewsWire/ZimmComm)
The wide, wacky world of machine and data interconnectivity...
Analytics
February 4, 2019
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...
Digital Farming
February 4, 2019
This weekend I received an email with a link to the investment slide deck that was used by Fyre Media in 2016 to attract funding for the Fyre Festival. We all know how that little adventure ended and it...
Digital Farming
February 1, 2019
Editor’s Note: Through the evolution of agricultural technology, there always are differing opinions about the real prospects for widespread adoption – from the skeptical to the all-embracing. Here, Mike Stern of The Climate Corporation and Digital Farming at Bayer...
Analytics
January 31, 2019
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...
Data Management
January 30, 2019
How far are we from a computer being able to decide what variety or hybrid should be planted in a field, how it is fertilized, and prescribe crop protection chemicals needed? The promise of artificial intelligence (AI) has been...
Connectivity
January 22, 2019
I recently attended the PrecisionAg VISION Conference in Seattle. The event offers attendees a clear look at the changes that are likely to transform their businesses in the next 3-5 years. About 200 people attended the conference, including many from the...
Analytics
January 21, 2019
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...
Analytics
January 17, 2019
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...
Digital Farming
January 7, 2019
As I sit here pondering what is the next big thing needed for digital ag/precision ag/agtech/digital farming…..blah blah blah, it came to me to write down a list of things that we actually need changed or just need to...
Analytics
January 4, 2019
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...
