In order to get fresh produce to its consumers, the ecommerce giant Amazon Retail India (ARIPL) has announced that it is running a farm-to-fork pilot project in Pune, where it will be directly working with farmers to source fresh...

It is a great time to be an agribusiness in India writes Sohini Mitter at YourStory. Although we’ve traditionally been an agrarian economy, with nearly two-thirds of the country’s population earning its livelihood on farms, there is a renewed...

If you believe the latest hype about technology, you’d think that blockchain technology (BCT) is going to transform every business by next Wednesday. Of course, that’s not the case, but the agrifood system seems custom-designed for the technology. More...

Editor’s note: Brett Whelan, an Associate Professor of Precision Agriculture at the University of Sydney – Australia, is one of the recipients of the 2019 PrecisionAg Awards of Excellence. Here he shares his first experiences with ag technology, what...

Agrifood investments are growing outside the North American hub – particularly in Israel, Europe, and New Zealand, and now with clusters in Latin America and Great Asia. New Zealand is a prime example of an agrifood area with substantial...

Once known for primarily for its microbial seed treatments, Indigo Ag is building a framework for commodity crop production and marketing designed to shift producer focus away from yield as the primary value generator. It's quite a row to

By 2025, 20% of the top 10 global grocers by revenue will be using blockchain for food safety and traceability to create visibility to production, quality and freshness, predicts Gartner Inc., a global research and advisory firm. Some grocers have...

The VISION Conference has become established as the definitive precision agriculture and digital farming conference for North America. Pictured: Meister Media Worldwide Group Editor Paul Schrimpf moderates a session at the 2019 VISION Conference in...

If you have been following any precision ag media or technology news in general, there has been a lot of excitement and interest around blockchain. But what is blockchain? Where did it come from? More importantly, what does it...

Ahmedabad, India-based agritech startup MyCrop is currently testing blockchain in the seed supply chain to track its entire supply movement — from seed aggregators, distributors, retailers to farmers, reports Dipen Pradhan for Inc42. The move to implement blockchain is...

An engaging panel discussion at SXSW addressed why investment remains a challenge for women entrepreneurs and what it would take to get more women leaders in the agtech sector. Editor's note: This article was originally published in...

Autopilot systems, GPS receivers, and mapping, yield monitor systems, drones, NDVI imaging, weed sensors, automatic section cutting, variable dosing, AI, blockchain, big data... Even pioneers of direct seeding could not have imagined, 30 years ago, so many technical terms...

An IBM presentation on the application of blockchain technology for food safety will be one of many opportunities for learning and innovation at the 2019 Salinas Valley Ag Technology Summit on March 26-27. IBM, which is developing blockchain data-tracking solutions...

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...

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...

If you’re here you likely have received a special Meister Media Worldwide code to get $100 off your registration to our inaugural Growing Innovations conference, Nov. 7-8 in Las Vegas  – but only if you register before Oct. 20. Maybe you...

When you think about artificial intelligence (AI), you probably don't imagine using it for a farm. IBM is bringing data and AI together with the global release of the Watson Decision Platform for Agriculture to help growers makes better...

Land O'Lakes SUSTAIN today announced its plan to roll out the Truterra Insights Engine, an interactive on-farm digital platform that will help farmers advance their stewardship goals and return-on-investment in real time, acre-by-acre and help food companies measure sustainability...

When the Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) was standardized in 1982, permitting the worldwide proliferation of interconnected networks and eventually the internet, very few would have ever dreamed of the digital information age it would unleash, writes Frank Giles on...

"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...