Data Management
February 16, 2016
Attendees at the product launch used available tablets for self-guided demonstrations of the Advantage Acre platform. The platform is a comprehensive suite of technologies that bring together three foundational elements of farming: seed, soil and...
Data Management
February 16, 2016
Bayer has acquired the plant health diagnosis and infection level warning service provider proPlant Gesellschaft für Agrar- und Umweltinformatik mbH. The acquisition continues the expansion of Bayer’s activities in the field of agricultural digitalization. The company based in Münster...
Data Management
February 12, 2016
Andrew Nixon over at BetterForTheJob.com has published an agriculture drone buyer's guide at bestdroneforthejob.com/drones-for-work/agriculture-drone-buyers-guide/.
It's a pretty well-curated web resource that covers a lot of ground on the subject of UAVs. Feel free to check it out at the link...
Data Management
February 10, 2016
Sentera, a global provider of software, sensors, and drones to the agriculture industry, announces its compatibility with the agX Platform. The collaboration benefits both agX and Sentera customers. agX clients can easily incorporate Sentera’s data management solution, AgVault Software,...
Data Management
February 10, 2016
There are now around 300,000 drones registered to the Federal Aviation Administration. Drones are seeing strides forward in use after registration was opened at the end of last year, reports David Geiger with Agribusiness Report in Cedar Rapids, IA.
In...
Data Management
February 9, 2016
All Drone Solutions announces its intention to demonstrate and launch ROAM (Remotely Operated Agriculture Mapping) solution for growers and agronomists at the World Ag Expo , Feb. 9-11, Building C Booth 3816. An in-house and portable local processing system...
Data Management
February 9, 2016
The Data On The Farm: Successes, Pain Points And Opportunities panel, including Steve Pitstick (center, second from left) and moderator Lisa Prassack (far right).
On Tuesday, January 26, 2016, I joined the over 235 strong for...
Data Management
February 9, 2016
Swiss professional drone maker, senseFly, has confirmed that Parrot’s Sequoia multispectral sensor – announced today at World Ag Expo in Tulare, CA, and due to launch in March 2016 – will be immediately available for its eBee Ag drone.
Sequoia...
Analytics
February 3, 2016
AgReliant Genetics has announced its formal collaboration with AgSoil Analytics, Inc., a Purdue-affiliated company led by Purdue University agronomy professor Phillip Owens.
Phillip R. Owens, from left, Purdue University associate professor of agronomy, and doctoral graduate...
Data Management
February 2, 2016
Sentera, LLC, a global provider of software, sensors, and drone technologies to the agriculture industry, has announced completing the integration as a John Deere Operations Center Production Partner. This affiliation gives John Deere's dealer and customer network access to...
Data Management
January 29, 2016
Hortau, a provider of precision irrigation management systems and services for agriculture since 2002, has been named to the Global Cleantech 100 Companies to Watch List.
Produced by the Cleantech Group, the Global Cleantech lists recognize companies that are best...
Data Management
January 27, 2016
Farmers Edge, a global leader in precision agriculture and independent data management solutions, today announced it has received a $58 million CAD raise led by existing investors, Mitsui & Co., Ltd., Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers' Green Growth Fund...
Data Management
January 27, 2016
As part of its drive to transform modern agriculture, FarmLink has announced the creation of its advisory board focused on increasing adoption of new technology and precision agriculture tools necessary to improve productivity, profitability, and sustainability of farm operations...
Data Management
January 25, 2016
Farmers Edge, a global leader in precision agriculture and independent data management solutions, has announced the addition of its new Iowa headquarters in Ames. This continuing expansion into key Midwestern agricultural regions comes on the heels of the Company’s...
Analytics
January 21, 2016
The next few years may be tough for ag retailers. High yields continue to depress grain prices while the global economy faces contraction on many fronts. This has many in the agribusiness sector concerned about how long this current...
Data Management
January 21, 2016
Mavrx ultra-high-resolution imagery from aircraft reveal deeper insights into field conditions than low-resolution data from satellites. For example, you can see the rows in the field and patterns made by farm equipment. Mavrx Scout uses...
Data Management
January 21, 2016
According to Kris Poulson, vice president of agriculture for Sentera, an estimated 45,000 farmers across the U.S. received a drone or unmanned aerial system for Christmas, reports Keith Norman on TheDickinsonPress.com.
Sentera is a Minneapolis-based company that develops and markets...
Data Management
January 19, 2016
In an era when unmanned aerial systems seem to be the inevitable future for agricultural data collection, one implement dealer has started offering a service of collecting data for customers with a Cessna airplane, flown by an actual pilot,...
Data Management
January 19, 2016
A new agreement between aWhere and HydroBio will provide more accurate daily and weekly irrigation prescriptions, crop monitoring, crop water storage and strategy information that will enable more precise decision-making for growers worldwide, says the two companies in a...
Data Management
January 15, 2016
Agribotix and Hawkins Manufacturing Inc. have partnered to make turnkey drone-enabled agricultural intelligence technologies and services widely available across the US. Hawkins' nationwide dealer network will offer the fully supported, efficient, agricultural analytics solution to 567 dealers in 33...
