Every year it is always interesting to reflect on the past and look for lessons learned in the last year. Agriculture is facing many challenges as we arrive in the New Year, and lessons can be learned or thought...

Source: Finistere Ventures & The Mixing Bowl Being our resident all-things-imagery geek here at PrecisionAg.com, I figured with the release of last week’s Finistere Ventures 2018 Ag Tech Investment Review – along with its handy Ag...

"Life in the fast lane Surely make you lose your mind Life in the fast lane, yeah" Last week in Omaha, NE, was this author's inaugural (hopefully not the last?) trip to Farmers Business Network's annual all-things-pro-farmer blowout, Farmer2Farmer, which this...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a technology that exhibits behavior that could be interpreted as human intelligence. Can we apply artificial intelligence in agriculture? Can a computer be better than man in making decisions related to other living organisms in...

Ceres Imaging has announced the release of its new Cumulative Stress Index. The index combines Ceres Imaging’s various imagery indices into a single metric to assess overall plant stress over a growing season and strongly correlates to actual yield results. Farmers can...

Raven Industries, Inc. announced today that it has signed an asset purchase agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of AgSync, Inc., manufacturer of a popular ag logistics software and headquartered in Wakarusa, IN, according to a December press...

One of CropMetrics' first group of FFA Irrigation Management Program participants. (Photo Credit - Nick Lammers, CropMetrics) Like many around the precision ag industry lately, a Nebraska irrigation management tech outfit is putting its money (and...

Nobody ever said farming was easy, but 2018 was a particularly difficult year for many in agriculture: trade tensions, uncooperative weather during harvest, and bitter partisan wrangling over the now-lapsed Farm Bill all caused major headaches for producers across...

Jason Tatge, Farmobile CEO, shows us the latest Farmobile PUC for the 2018 growing season, at Commodity Classic 2017 in Decatur, IL. Ah yes, it’s that time of year again. That time of year when online publishers...

CEOs from some of the largest tech companies in the world are highlighting the importance of data privacy and security. Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple claimed the personal data accumulated by some tech companies is being “weaponized against...

Understory, the weather network and analytics company, has announced that it has secured $7.5 million in additional funding led by 4490 Ventures. A new investor in the current round is Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, the DC-based...

With an increasing number of technology providers offering their services to growers with the aim of solving very specific problems or offering service in a small niche of agriculture, I see more and more ‘silos’ forming in the ag-tech...

Editor's note: This article was originally published in November 2018.  Paraguay is a country located in South America with a population of 6.8 million people, with much of its territory bordered by Brazil. Many people around the world still associate...

“For the first time ever, farmers are seeing that our imagery is as good as walking in the field. Farmers get it because it’s so visual. It’s a wow moment. ‘You captured this from a plane? That’s pretty amazing,’”...

Friday morning’s big news in precision ag – the forming of a strategic partnership between Canadian ag tech agronomy provider Farmers Edge (Winnipeg, MB) and international equipment giant CNH Industrial (CNHi) – confirmed a long standing suspicion many in...

CNH Industrial and Farmers Edge have entered into a strategic digital agriculture agreement that will deliver a portfolio of connectivity and agronomic solutions to Case IH customers. Through this agreement, CNH Industrial will provide Case IH customers with access to FarmCommand, a unique...

If you, like me, have been fortunate to witness what Land O’ Lakes CIO Mike Macrie has called the two great revolutions in agriculture since mechanization – biotechnology and now ag tech – you well know that confusion often...

Harvest is always an exciting time of the year, to reap the workings of an entire growing season and begin evaluating decisions to make for the coming season and year. Knowing how trials, varieties/hybrids, and management practices impacted final...

AgEagle announced an expansion of the existing partnership between Agribotix, an AgEagle company, and The Climate Corporation, a subsidiary of Bayer, to introduce advanced aerial imagery analytics to farmers. Through the AgEagle platform, farmers are able to utilize aerial imagery...

There are some commonly spoken narratives that are actually false, at least as stated in the exact words used, that erode trust in weather forecasting. For example, just recently a friend mentioned how “it seems clear, at least to...