Microsoft Research (MSR) has high hopes for digital farming. Microsoft Research's Kenneth Tran (second from left) led Team Sonoma, which won the first International Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge by successfully growing greenhouse cucumbers in the Netherlands for...

BASF Venture Capital and Canada’s TELUS Ventures are among the lead investors in a series B investment round for British startup Hummingbird Technologies, a global leader in advanced crop analytics, according to a release at Globe Newswire. Other main...

Technical debt is like any form of debt. It originates from any action taken now that requires a future action to cancel or mitigate it.  Technical debt appears in every product approaching obsolescence. It impacts every stage of the...

Radar AgTech 2019 is the largest study of the Brazilian ag innovation ecosystem. This year's study was conducted by Embrapa, SP Ventures, and consulting firm Homo Ludens, with the support of StartAgro, ACE, and the FEI University Center. Radar AgTech...

Have you struggled with selecting a farm management system? That's understandable, and you're not alone. Lots of farmers like you need a tech platform that supports their business, but with so many different types of software options out there...

If we are to believe the literature, all innovations have an S–Curve that models and describes their market acceptance.  The S-Curve is a generalized model that plots product acceptance over time. This S-Curve also integrates to a normal curve. The...

Winegrape production – with its relatively smaller tracts of highly manageable land and potentially monstrous returns on investment – is especially fertile ground for precision agriculture technology. Dr. Russell Smithyman, Director of Viticulture, Ste. Michelle Wine...

Since the Great Farming Revolution in the 1960s, the global population has doubled in size. This has resulted in more pressure and strain on the agriculture industry to supply the necessary demand the current population requires. In recent years,...

The digital age has brought many partnerships in agriculture with new access to technology and tools. These strategic partnerships have become a daily discussion in precision agriculture, and for good reason. Partnerships are shaping a new model of business,...

By now anyone who knows me is aware that I’m a fan of Moneyball and Sabermetrics. The ability to grind through a lot of data and have that data make sense by bringing it down to 1 number has...

I recently read an interesting article about Brazilian ag tech startups and what they are bringing to the table for South American producers. The article focuses on seven companies that are developing products to help farmers in different ways,...

Earlier this year scientists revealed the first-ever image captured of a black hole. Thought to be impossible, the feat required the collaboration of more than 350 astronomers over several years, and their efforts recently earned them the Breakthrough Prize...

By 2050, 10 billion people would require a 70% increase in global food production. In order to satisfy the global food demand, there is a strong need for sustainable agriculture solutions. For that reason, agricultural technology is one of the...

We in agriculture tend to talk about technology companies that don’t understand us and don’t really bother to invest the time and effort to do so. It’s nice every once in a while to talk about those that do....

Over the last six years, large-scale farms became one of our major customer segments, as the complexity of their operations and risk they need to handle are the highest. Experiences we gathered through our work with large-scale farms from...

A major way to improve traceability, sustainability, and quality of goods from a farm is through the adoption of technology, including an integrated farm management platform. Agriculture is continuously changing through innovation in science and technology....

It’s hard to open any agricultural website at the moment, or even LinkedIn or Twitter for that matter, without reading about the rising trend of hemp cultivation in the U.S. Hemp was legalized in the Farm Bill that President...

It’s been called the longest running precision survey, compiled in the U.S. but seen around the world as a bellwether of what’s to come in ag technology in other parts of the world and dissected at events including the...

At the InfoAg Conference last week, a common and prevalent theme throughout several discussions on the trade show floor, as well as during sessions, suggested the ag industry is on the cusp of truly beginning to utilize data within...

Members of AgriHub recently had the opportunity to meet individuals from Agri NEST startups and Business France to talk about the Brazilian agriculture market. Contributing writer Mauricio Nicocelli Netto (sitting) was on hand to learn...