Via Janzen Ag Law Blog: Senators Amy Klobuchar and John Thune have introduced Senate Bill 2487, the "Agricultural Data Act of 2018," writes Ag Law Attorney Todd Janzen in a recent blog post. According to Janzen, the bill seeks to...

Data is undeniably a valuable asset. Yet, in the ag ecosystem, who’s seeing the value from it? A recent article on PrecisionAg.com highlights how growers aren’t seeing value from data since, “The yield map book usually serves as a coaster...

AgReliant Genetics, the third largest seed company in North America, and The Climate Corp., a subsidiary of Monsanto Co., have announced a data connectivity agreement between Advantage Acre, AgReliant Genetics’ suite of digital technologies, and The Climate Corp.’s Climate FieldView digital...

With increased value provided by edge computing to security improvements with Blockchain integration, IoT platforms across the board are just starting to get sexy. The intelligent digital mesh is evolving and enterprises today are paying attention to the disruption and...

Indulge me and let’s beat a dead horse together. We all know that data is a huge deal these days. Companies that specialize in it are working overtime and companies that have no business in data are playing the...

Comedian Mark Mayfield opens Commodity Classic 2018 at the General Session. Once the annual end-of-winter blowout known as Commodity Classic wraps, it basically signals that we've reached go-time for agriculture. The new products, high-yielding seed varieties, and...

In today’s day and age, it is exciting to see so many developments in technology that can be applied to the farm scale. Every week we see new companies coming into the ag technology spectrum and with each a...

In a major initiative to apply disruptive technology in agriculture, a consortium of researchers has been formed with the partnership of three leading institutions in the country, with the mandate of turning farming from an ‘uncertain’ to ‘assured’ activity,...

GiSC (Grower Information Services Cooperative), the agricultural industry's only grower-run data cooperative, and Main Street Data, an agricultural data analytics company, are joining forces with IBM to introduce a suite of data-driven solutions to help growers improve their yields,...

Sentera today announced the availability of a Micro Gimbal upgrade for Sentera Single sensors mounted on the popular DJI Phantom 4 Pro, Advanced, or Standard drone platforms. The micro gimbal compensates for drone pitch and roll so that the...

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),...

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,...

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),...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...