I was recently asked, “Where is imagery in digital farming?” Imagery, especially from satellites and increasingly from drones, is often proposed or inferred as the core functionality of digital farming. Why else would almost every digital farming discussion center...

The five finalist teams for the 2018 Syngenta Crop Challenge in Analytics during the award ceremony at the 2018 INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics & Operations Research in Baltimore, MD. Last week I attended the 2018...

Climate FieldView customers can now enjoy seamless integration of Sentera FieldAgent on-field sensor and analytics products with FieldView, as well as automatic synchronization of field boundary and other user information between platforms. The partnership between Sentera and The Climate Corp....

Nutrien's retail division – soon to be rebranded as Nutrien Ag Solutions – has announced the launch of a new digital platform designed to augment its industry-leading distribution network, agronomic advice and services. The platform will provide growers with...

The Climate Corporation announced the addition of five industry-leading partners to The Climate Corporation’s Climate FieldView digital agriculture platform. The new partners -- AgWorks, DroneDeploy, MyAgData, Sentera and Skymatics -- will deliver powerful new capabilities and tremendous value for...

Precipitation is arguably the most important agricultural weather parameter, yet it is the most difficult variable to precisely measure. For a wide variety of agronomic decisions, accurate tracking of actual rainfall during the course of a season can be...

Here are seven core concepts of digital farming and why they are important in the agricultural and digital world.

Today, a seemingly endless amount of ag data flows from growers’ fields into a host of technology platforms. It is top of mind given the Facebook data breach involving Cambridge Analytica that compromised millions of users’ personal information. With...

Bayer's xarvio made quite the splash at Agritechnica 2017 in Hannover, Germany, back in November. Germany’s Bayer plans to sell its digital farming business to BASF as part of changes to concessions it has offered to...

Sentera announces the availability of high-fidelity crop stand, weed pressure mapping, spot scouting maps, and free local image stitching within the Sentera FieldAgent platform. These valuable, field-edge tools are available today to all FieldAgent customers using high-resolution crop imagery....

AgVend is pleased to announce the close of a $1.75m seed fundraising round led by Iowa native Drew Oetting at 8VC. This investment will enable the team to expand its pursuit of driving eCommerce in US agriculture across the...

Disclaimer: I have never been a crop scout. My intolerance for insects insinuating themselves in places that are competing for the sweat rolling down the back and pant legs would not allow for that career path. But my respect for...

The agricultural fair circuit in Brazil has begun and the central theme thus far has been digital agriculture. With an emphasis on education and research, agricultural fairs are creating paths and examples of how farmers can be inserted into...

Farmers Business Network (FBN) today announced its international expansion into Canada for the 2018 growing season, and the acquisition of Yorkton Distributors in Yorkton, Saskatchewan. Canadian farmers can now take advantage of the rapidly growing FBN network providing growers...

Sentera today announced the immediate availability of the Sentera AGX710 gimbaled precision agriculture sensor with plug-and-play integration for DJI's industry leading Matrice 200 Series industrial drones. The AGX710 sensor delivers exceptional crop health insights and enables ag professionals to...

Gorham If only software from precision agriculture companies was more like Facebook or Google, no one in North America would be talking about how reluctant farmers are to use it. Sid Gorham, chief executive and co-founder of...

Earth Observing System (EOS), a Menlo Park based startup, announces the release of a unique cloud-based platform called EOS Crop Monitoring, which provides solutions for input suppliers, farmers, commodity traders, crop insurance companies, and all members of the agriculture...

Understory today announced an international expansion and strategic collaboration with Monsanto. Monsanto’s use of Understory’s weather network is providing on-the-ground insights into localized weather in Argentina to drive growers’ decisions and optimize high value operations, the two companies claim...

Corteva Agriscience, Agriculture Division of DowDuPont, through its software business, Granular, announced today with Planet – an integrated aerospace and data analytics company – a significantly expanded global partnership to deliver digital agriculture software solutions for farmers. The three-year agreement...

AgGateway has submitted its proposed irrigation data exchange standard to the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE), a major achievement in precision agriculture to help growers manage data from their irrigation management systems. The standard is the result...