Drones | UAVs August 18, 2020 With powerful capabilities and high-resolution imagery, drone scouting empowers maximized efficiency and visibility to troubled areas within a crop.
Irrigation August 17, 2020 Sometimes, the needs and drivers of farmers’ purchases may deviate very strongly from your expectations.
Connectivity August 11, 2020 You may have noticed posts on social media recently marking #RuralBroadbandDay, writes Linda Safarian at Agri-Pulse. I’d like to take a moment to consider how important rural broadband is to our industry, our nation and the people who live...
Drones | UAVs August 10, 2020 Mast Farms in Mississippi is using Quantix Mapper and Pix4Dfields to create variable rates for Pix PGR application on their cotton farm.
In-Field Technologies July 25, 2020 Across the history of agriculture, the soil beneath our feet has been an unexplored frontier. New discoveries are showing how plants and microbes interact in order to provide the plant with more nutrients. One area that is particularly exciting...
Drones | UAVs July 21, 2020 Drone spraying has been widely used in Southeast Asian countries such as China and Japan with great results, reports sUAS News. Now the trend is spreading to the U.S. and Europe as well. Currently, we are seeing a significant increase...
Connectivity July 15, 2020 Today, 49 organizations spanning multiple industries announced they have joined forces as part of a new coalition dedicated to helping close America’s digital divide. Convened by farmer-owned cooperative Land O’Lakes, Inc., the newly formed American Connection Project Broadband Coalition (ACPBC or...
Drones | UAVs June 19, 2020 A new research report by Meticulous Research predicts that drones in agriculture will be worth more than $5 Billion by 2025, according to DroneLife. Agriculture has been a major sector for the commercial drone industry for several years. Now, new sensors and technology have made the...
Connectivity June 16, 2020 Elon Musk's SpaceX has a month to convince officials at the Federal Communications Commission that its service is up to snuff to participate in an upcoming auction for government subsidies to deliver broadband to rural parts of the country,...
In-Field Technologies June 2, 2020 Contributing writer Nathan Faleide offers a hilarious take on the current state of ag tech and how it's sometimes like herding cats.
Sensors May 26, 2020 With an array of smart agri-tech projects deploying remote sensing, India is upgrading and expanding its agricultural ventures
Irrigation May 26, 2020 Soil moisture sensors are being increasingly adopted by farmers and provide an opportunity for making VRI fully automated and much more precise.
In-Field Technologies May 18, 2020 The successful implementation of precision ag technologies in full-scale is still a far off possibility in the future for the Indian ag sector, says contributor Rashika Solomon.
In-Field Technologies May 14, 2020 Crop monitoring carried out via satellites needs less human resources and is exceptionally efficient for tracking vast areas.
Market Watch April 29, 2020 Rise of the machines in modern agriculture is elevating to new levels of importance, especially given the new point of view provided by COVID-19 fallout, reports Growing Produce. The University of North Florida (UNF) College of Computing, Engineering and Construction,...
Market Watch April 24, 2020 There’s perhaps no better time than now to talk about automation in agriculture, writes Matthew Grassi at Greenhouse Grower. Social distancing guidelines and stay-at-home orders due to COVID-19 have severely limited the available workforce in nearly every corner of farming....
In-Field Technologies April 20, 2020 Combining protein and yield provides the complete story on nitrogen availability and uptake across the field.
Variable Rate April 14, 2020 Make each and every choice on your farm a strategic one using VR technology with customized fertility and seeding plans to meet your farm’s production goals now, and for the future.
Market Watch April 12, 2020 From 2016-2019, a team from the Australian Centre for Field Robotics at the University of Sydney undertook projects focusing on advancing the application of robotics, intelligent sensing systems, precision agriculture automation, and more in Australia’s vegetable industry, reports FreshPlaza. In...
Connectivity March 31, 2020 It is hard to watch television and not see a commercial promoting 5G connectivity these days, writes Lacey Newlin at High Plains Journal, but will it live up to all the hype in rural areas or are we in...