Agriculture has historically depended on disruptive discoveries and innovations to make big strides. In the 20th century, four innovations brought about change in agriculture: genetics (seeds), mechanisation, fertilizers and pesticides. These four innovations allowed more food, feed and fiber to be produced from less and...

Connectivity, interoperability, data portability, and data rights are the technology challenges that the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) believes has hindered the widespread adoption of digital technologies for agricultural businesses, writes Aimee Chanthadavong at ZDNet. During an address to...

Growing up and working in California’s Salinas Valley, Jaclyn Bennett has long heard the complaints from growers who want to use beneficial insects but bemoan the man-hours needed to disperse them in the field, reports David Eddy at Growing...

A possible architecture of sensors is to have a network of affordable sensors to address field-scale variability that communicate to a more expensive and advanced sensor that serves as a central hub. Sensor technology in agriculture...

China-based XAG has announced it has introduced autonomous drones to improve pest control efficacy against disease caused by fall armyworms, writes Gulli Arnason at Financial News. XAG is among the first to introduce fully autonomous drones in some of the...

When U.S. Congress reformed the tax code in late 2017, it naturally had broad implications on businesses and non-profits nationwide. Unfortunately, one of the unforeseen impacts of the tax reform has hampered rural electric co-ops’ (REC’s) ability to develop...

Earlier this year scientists revealed the first-ever image captured of a black hole. Thought to be impossible, the feat required the collaboration of more than 350 astronomers over several years, and their efforts recently earned them the Breakthrough Prize...

At this week’s InterDrone conference in Las Vegas, Michael Ritter of SlantRange gave a great presentation – and explained how drones may be able to completely revolutionize global agriculture, reports Harry McNabb at DroneLife. Imagine aerial data that can tell you much, much...

Modern and efficient farm equipment lets farmers improve their produce, reduce input costs, reduce work and increase comfort, and more, reports Silicon Canals. Such precision agriculture equipment produces higher yields with reduced pesticides and increases the efficiency of the...

Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley (YMVSV), the venture arm of Yamaha Motor Co, led the $7.5 million Series A funding round for Advanced Farm Technologies (AFT), which develops robotic farming equipment like the T-6 robotic strawberry harvester, which uses multiple robotic...

https://youtu.be/FoIo8RxwloU Rantizo’s drone-spraying platform is growing in broad-area crops in the U.S., where many said it wasn’t feasible. We talk to CEO Michael Ott to understand how this emerging application method is getting traction with retailers and growers at any...

A new special report from the Editors of PrecisionAg and AgriBusiness Global highlights trends and innovation behind the rapidly maturing space of drone application technology. Download The State of Precision Drone Application to get exclusive insights on: Global investment trends...

https://youtu.be/-4BGSGeoE90 In this episode of Precision Perspectives, Precision Ag Market Development Director David Frabotta discusses Ipsos research with Jessica Chung, Co-Lead at the Center of Excellence for Commercial Drone Adoption at Ipsos Business Consulting....

A recent article by CIO Australia outlines how the rapid development and deployment of technology-based systems are doing more than create new businesses, they are creating completely new industries around agriculture productivity, traceability, and decision support. Several of the technologies...

Drones can help growers address hard-to-solve production issues, writes Matthew Grassi at Growing Produce. Any time you adopt new technology, however, there’s ample opportunity to waste time and money. That’s why you’ll want advice from someone experienced with drones...

The advancements in technology are compelling businesses to adapt new innovative technological tools and solution to support exponential growth, reports Analytics Insight. In particular, the era of intelligent automation is bringing about a variety of changes in a business....

It’s been called the longest running precision survey, compiled in the U.S. but seen around the world as a bellwether of what’s to come in ag technology in other parts of the world and dissected at events including the...

So here we go again. Since we are now in the heat of summer, everyone seems to once again be clambering for imagery of their fields or some data that’s imagery related. Oddly enough though, not too recently this...

UAV-IQ has announced that it is offering aerial biocontrol, a new integrated pest management (IPM) service that uses drones to release beneficial biological control agents bred by Koppert Biological Systems, according to a press release on PR Newswire. Drone-based...

I previously posed the question: Why not just call precision agriculture “precision agriculture”? Mercifully the majority of you agree with me, if the poll that accompanied the post is any indication. At last count about 80% of poll participants said...