Analytics
March 11, 2019
Image Credit: AgNewsWire/Chuck Zimmerman
A little over a week and a half ago, the 2019 Commodity Classic took over the sprawling Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL, for the annual celebration of American farmers and...
Digital Farming
February 27, 2019
The drone-deployable, multi spectral sensing unit that will capture the insights that power Syngenta and Sony's new Smart Agriculture Solution.
As part of the 2019 Commodity Classic Convention & Expo in Orlando, FL, this week, Syngenta...
Drones | UAVs
February 25, 2019
Corteva Agriscience announced today a global agreement with DroneDeploy to use DroneDeploy in its fleet of more than 400 DJI drones across the Company’s global Seed Production and Supply Chain, as well as its Pioneer Strategic Account Management and...
Analytics
February 14, 2019
Ah yes, time again for our annual click-collecting effort here on PrecisionAg.com, otherwise known as our (quasi) annual list of companies that we think will make news in precision farming circles in 2019. Our 2018 entry in the series...
Analytics
February 12, 2019
AeroVironment today introduced the next generation of its Quantix VTOL hybrid drone and the AeroVironment Decision Support System (AV DSS) for precision agriculture. Enhancements across the Quantix & AV DSS ecosystem deliver a combination of new features, performance improvements...
Analytics
January 4, 2019
A man walks past a scaled-down replica of the SAOCOM 1-A/B satellite on display at Argentina’s space agency CONAE in Buenos Aires, Argentina September 20, 2018. — Reuters photo
Like the flying objects that convey its...
Analytics
December 21, 2018
Source: Finistere Ventures & The Mixing Bowl
Being our resident all-things-imagery geek here at PrecisionAg.com, I figured with the release of last week’s Finistere Ventures 2018 Ag Tech Investment Review – along with its handy Ag...
Analytics
December 14, 2018
Ceres Imaging has announced the release of its new Cumulative Stress Index.
The index combines Ceres Imaging’s various imagery indices into a single metric to assess overall plant stress over a growing season and strongly correlates to actual yield results. Farmers can...
Data Management
November 6, 2018
“For the first time ever, farmers are seeing that our imagery is as good as walking in the field. Farmers get it because it’s so visual. It’s a wow moment. ‘You captured this from a plane? That’s pretty amazing,’”...
Analytics
October 25, 2018
AgEagle announced an expansion of the existing partnership between Agribotix, an AgEagle company, and The Climate Corporation, a subsidiary of Bayer, to introduce advanced aerial imagery analytics to farmers.
Through the AgEagle platform, farmers are able to utilize aerial imagery...
Drones | UAVs
October 15, 2018
Prunes are European plums with a high sugar content that allows them to dry without fermenting around the pit and are almost all marketed dried, as prunes or dried plums. California produces 96% of the prunes grown in the...
Imagery
September 4, 2018
Before you get bent out of shape from the title, remember if you’ve read my articles before you know I like to reference pop culture in them. This one refers to the cult classic rom-com movie from 1999. I...
Analytics
July 25, 2018
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,...
Analytics
June 21, 2018
IntelinAir has partnered with TerrAvion to deliver what it is calling a "best in class imagery solution" to joint customers in 2018. IntelinAir delivers mission-critical full-season actionable intelligence to help farmers make data-driven decisions to improve operational efficiency, yields,...
Imagery
June 4, 2018
Where do I begin….I’ve been dealing with imagery in agriculture since I was 10 when my dad started Satshot. At the time in 1994 it seemed like imagery was going to be the next big thing after yield data...
Imagery
May 17, 2018
Taranis, an Israel-based provider of high-resolution agriculture aerial imagery and deep learning, today announced the acquisition of all Mavrx assets, one of the world’s leading agriculture aerial imagery providers. Effective immediately, current Mavrx and Taranis clients have access to a...
Imagery
May 3, 2018
Paramount Reports, a reporting platform developed by Ag Developer, was built to display data collected on the agX Platform in a clear and concise format that would best facilitate communication between trusted advisors and growers. Satellite imagery has now...
Digital Farming
April 27, 2018
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...
Imagery
April 11, 2018
Precision agriculture management requires understanding soil at increasingly finer scales. Conventional soil sampling and laboratory analyses often lack this granularity and can be time consuming and expensive. Remote soil sensing overcomes these shortcomings. Through its collection of spatial data...
Analytics
March 27, 2018
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...