Analytics
February 21, 2018
Last week’s annual National Farm Machinery Show (NFMS) in Louisville, KY, was this author’s first experience attending the mid-winter Midwest equipment classic, and although it’s not quite on the level of an Agritechnica (another first for me this year),...
Analytics
February 20, 2018
Mavrx booth at InfoAg 2017, Union Station Hotel, St. Louis, MO.
The team at San Francisco, CA-based Mavrx has announced an initiative to increase access to advanced decision support tools in agriculture by opening it's platform,...
Analytics
February 15, 2018
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),...
Analytics
February 14, 2018
DTN has announced a partnership today at the National Farm Machinery Show with Agronomic Technology Corp (ATC), a Yara International Company and the leader in nitrogen modeling. Through the partnership, DTN, an independent source of insight and analysis, and...
Digital Farming
February 9, 2018
Industry innovators in agriculture, food, and information technology are set to mix it up again at this year’s Forbes Mixing Bowl NYC event to be held March 22 at Forbes on Fifth in New York City. The unique interactive...
Analytics
February 5, 2018
UPDATED 2.5.18, 2:10 PM
Proagrica has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of SST Software, including Raven’s ownership stake. Based in London, Proagrica is a dominant agriculture player in Australia and the UK, and has a significant footprint in Europe...
Data Management
February 1, 2018
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...
Data Management
February 1, 2018
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...
Connectivity
February 1, 2018
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...
Analytics
January 30, 2018
On Monday, SVG Partners announced its THRIVE Top 50, an annual ranking of 50 leading agricultural technology companies exemplifying the best in agriculture technology around the globe. Recognizing companies across six different technology areas in agriculture – including biotechnology,...
Connectivity
January 29, 2018
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....
Analytics
January 24, 2018
Bringing sustainability to scale and shaping the future of farming requires collaboration across the supply chain, starting with growers and their trusted partners. Growers rely heavily on their local retailer advisors for recommendations and services that will drive productivity,...
Analytics
January 24, 2018
According to a recent press release, PrecisionHawk, Inc. announced it has raised a $75 million round of funding from a group of venture and strategic investors. This investment brings PrecisionHawk’s total funding to more than $100 million since...
Data Management
January 23, 2018
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...
Data Management
January 23, 2018
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...
Data Management
January 17, 2018
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...
Data Management
January 17, 2018
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...
Data Management
January 16, 2018
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...
Data Management
January 16, 2018
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...
Data Management
January 15, 2018
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...
