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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...