Drones | UAVs
November 2, 2020
Wisconsin-based companies save time and money using drones to map and spot spray invasive weeds.
Digital Farming
September 30, 2020
With crop monitoring data, suppliers are able to adjust their own capacities to the current market pull, thus every player in the supply chain can benefit.
Irrigation
September 10, 2020
Israeli soil sensing and data analytics startup CropX has acquired New Zealand-based Regen, a cloud-based, precision effluent and irrigation decision support tool company, reports AgFunder News.
The acquisition marks CropX’s foray into the New Zealand market. It has longstanding ties...
Irrigation
August 19, 2020
Reinke Manufacturing, a global leader in irrigation systems and technology, and CropX, a leading global agricultural analytics and soil sensing company, have announced a partnership to empower growers with the world’s finest irrigation scheduling tools.
By integrating the technologies and...
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....