Digital Farming
April 26, 2019
If you have been following any precision ag media or technology news in general, there has been a lot of excitement and interest around blockchain. But what is blockchain? Where did it come from? More importantly, what does it...
Digital Farming
April 12, 2019
If you’re a regular visitor to PrecisionAg.com – and we hope you are – you’re keenly aware that precision agriculture and digital farming are changing and evolving.
So, too, is PrecisionAg.com. The site now offers entirely new look and focus...
Digital Farming
April 12, 2019
Nokia’s Smart Agriculture-as-a-Service solution runs on the Nokia Worldwide IoT Network Grid (WING), which is a global horizontal platform which allows telcos to not only roll out IoT services more quickly on their network but gives them the flexibility to scale globally when they need...
Data Management
April 10, 2019
It has been nearly two years since I published my thoughts about "building your own" and, as the topic is still as relevant now as it was back then, I think it is time for a follow-up article to...
Data Management
April 8, 2019
The CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture is helping to facilitate a new relationship between farmers and the digital world, reports Food Tank. Using the emerging tools of Big Data, the CGIAR Platform is developing approaches for solving complex...
Digital Farming
April 4, 2019
Technology in agriculture started as early as the 1960s. The decades that followed brought significant improvements in machine and methods, and technology presented novel methods of dealing with the imminent food crisis, writes CropIn Technology CEO Krishna Kumar on...
Digital Farming
April 3, 2019
What if rural, smallholder farmers in Asia could harness the power of digital technology to access solutions that were previously within each of only wealthy, large-scale farmers and agribusiness corporations?
Their laborious work supporting the global production of food and...
Digital Farming
April 3, 2019
Each farm is different. Every field unique. Farmers must rely on their knowledge and experience to maximize the potential of their plot whilst using as few resources as possible. And they are experts at doing so, according to an...
Digital Farming
April 2, 2019
Even in our modern world, farming remains a core industry, writes Vitaly Kuprenko for IoT For All. Human beings engaged in agribusiness are working day and night to increase crop yield and livestock growth. Mixed reality (MR) and artificial...
Analytics
March 28, 2019
Agricultural technologies offer a pathway to a more sustainable future – one in which farmers can both improve their yields and drive down waste, writes Ayal Karmi for Scientific American. Artificial intelligence, data analytics, and even drones are among...
Digital Farming
March 27, 2019
You are at the starting line before the race, or on the field before the game. You look around at your competitors – can I take these guys? You wonder about your own readiness: Have I done what I...
Digital Farming
March 23, 2019
Activity in the ag-tech sector has skyrocketed over the last five years — marking its arrival as an important piece of the venture capital ecosystem, according to with Arama Kukutai of the venture capital firm Finistere.
Kukutai told Tim Sandle...
Analytics
March 22, 2019
Two powerful trends – the Internet of Things (IoT) and data analytics – are generating lots of press for their industrial and infrastructure applications, writes Rich Quinnell for EE Times. But there is another application space that is quietly...
Digital Farming
March 20, 2019
A recent research report predicts that the global smart farming market is expected to touch $23.14 billion by 2022, rising at a compound annual growth rate of 19.3 per cent from 2017 to 2022, notes Chittaranjan Jena, co-founder and...
Digital Farming
March 20, 2019
The third International VDI Conference on Smart Farming 2019 will be held in Düsseldorf, Germany, May 14-15, 2019.
Smart Farming 2019 – hosted by the Association of German Engineers (VDI), one of the largest technical-scientific associations in Europe – is...
Digital Farming
March 20, 2019
The Climate Corporation (Climate), a subsidiary of Bayer, has announced a platform agreement between the company's industry-leading Climate FieldView digital agriculture platform and NAU Country Insurance Company, a QBE Insurance Company. The new agreement between Climate and NAU Country...
Analytics
March 20, 2019
Growers Edge today introduced an extensive lineup of fintech solutions for growers, agribusiness, distribution partners and institutions to accelerate the adoption of agtech innovations while managing risk.
“Growers Edge has created an unmatched network of technology, insurance and farm partners...
Digital Farming
March 19, 2019
AGCO announces a commercial and technological partnership with Solinftec, a Brazil-based developer and distributor of digital agriculture solutions.The partnership will reportedly give AGCO customers direct access to Solinftec´s portfolio of solutions including on-board computers, weather stations, soil sensors, telemetry...
Digital Farming
March 19, 2019
Anyone who wears glasses, or contacts like I do, will be familiar with the feeling of getting a new set of glasses with improved correction and no scratches. Oh man, doesn’t that make everything look clearer!
It is this exact...
Analytics
March 18, 2019
Leading the way in using drive increasingly sophisticated data and analytics tools to drive efficiencies and cut waste in agriculture and food production is John Deere, writes futurist Bernard Marr on Forbes.com. The 180-year-old manufacturer of farming and industrial machinery...
