Former Monsanto President (now Bayer CropScience Chief Operating Office) Brett Begemann’s opening salvo during his first appearance at a Farm Progress Show (FPS) donning the Bayer Baby Blue summed up the tone and tenor of this year’s FPS rather...

I recently attended Strider Day in São Paulo, an event hosted by Brazilian agtech company Strider. The event offered two days (August 30-31) of lectures and debates about the relevance and impact of technology on the agricultural revolution in...

The Climate Corporation, a subsidiary of Bayer, has announced the advancement of a new predictive seed selection and placement technology to pre-commercial testing. This fall, approximately 50 seed dealers will be testing Seed Advisor, a data science-driven tool that...

Open Prairie has made its second investment through the Open Prairie Rural Opportunities Fund, a growth-stage private equity fund dedicated to providing capital to agribusiness companies throughout rural America. The $2 million of convertible debt financing will allow MyAgData...

From the invention of hoes, scythes and ploughs to the introduction of tractors, innovation is at the heart of agriculture, writes Anmar Frangoul on CNBC.com. Today, a number of digital technologies — from autonomous robots that pick fruit to...

I think it’s safe to say we’re pretty obsessed with adoption in this industry, aren’t we? Whether it be on trade show floors at the various winter meetings, in meetings with our PrecisionAg Institute member companies, or in dreary, fluorescent-lighted...

No matter a grower’s skill level, there are three key areas in helping them get the most value from the John Deere Operations Center. Today’s farming operation looks different than it did 20, 10, even just...

From commodity prices and competition for business to future-proofing the operation, ag retailers shared their challenges and concerns in a recent survey conducted by Proagrica.

UrtheCast Corp. and Land O’Lakes, Inc. today announced they have entered a binding term sheet for the purchase of Geosys Technology Holding LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Land O’Lakes, for a purchase price of US$20 million. This landmark...

As the days in the Northern Hemisphere slowly get shorter, they are getting longer in the Southern Hemisphere and everywhere growers are starting to prepare their equipment in anticipation of the upcoming harvest. In the U.S., 26% of corn...

Agile Networks, a leading provider of telecommunications solutions, and Microsoft Corp. has announced a new agreement to bring broadband internet access to rural areas in Ohio, reaching 110,000 currently unserved people and greatly expanding access in underserved rural areas. According...

Rather than breaking things down into smaller, bite-sized pieces that are easily digested, we’ve learned to over-indulge in data, quickly leading us to become bloated with un-actionable results. Big data is one of the most buzzed-about...

AgEagle Aerial Systems has signed an agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of Agribotix, a Boulder, CO-based drone-enabled software company that provides advanced imaging and data analysis for sustainable and precision agriculture. The closing of the transaction...

Building a house starts with a plan and then a foundation; it does not start with doors and windows. From foundation the house progresses to walls and roof, and then the doors and windows. Building any system starts with...

PrecisionAg Award of Excellence recipient Bruce Erickson is driven to share his knowledge of precision technologies and techniques with students, as well as the larger agriculture community.

Farmers Edge is colloborating with Phillips Seed Farms. Farmers Edge recently announced a collaboration with Phillips Seed Farms Inc., a full-line seed company servicing Midwest and Southern U.S. States. According to a press release from Farmers Edge,...

"Valley Agronomics, out in the Pacific Northwest … there’s something about those guys, they just get it …” Those words, in an email I had received some forgettable winter morning after soliciting an industry contact for recommendations on up-and-coming...

  InfoAg 2018 - Union Station, St. Louis, MO. InfoAg, precision farming’s annual mid-summer blowout, is about a week in the rearview as I type this, a hazy Midwestern summer morning underway here in Ohio. Seven days later,...

The agricultural community has spent several years synthesizing an operational description for digital farming. In several cases, there have also been solutions put forth all claiming to be digital farming, but now, more than ever, there is as much...

The world of technology-based solutions has been increasingly flooded with buzzwords like “analytics”, “big data”, and “Internet of Things”. In the past few years, the availability of cost-effective, large-scale cloud computing and open-source scientific programming libraries has led to...