Emerging precision technologies – especially drones/UAVs by air and “see & spray” units by ground – have the potential to revolutionize application and disrupt the entire production-to-distribution channel for crop input products. This is especially true of drone application...

Floods, drought, fires, pest damage, or disease can decimate a season’s profits. A single drone flight can provide rapid, easy, and accurate assessment for insurance adjustment procedures and compensation. Crop damage assessments and adjustments have traditionally been difficult to make...

Disruptive innovation is seldom taken seriously in its infancy. Computer pioneers in the 1970s famously downplayed how much consumers would want microcomputers in their homes until Apple invented the personal computer. Newspaper publishers scoffed at internet advertising as “trading dollars...

This driver-less tractor from Kingman Ag Enterprises of California features a 55-gallon tank/barrel so it can go a long way before refueling. (Photo: Connor Kingman) Another driver-less tractor debuted a few weeks ago in California, bringing...

A trio of French engineers fresh out of college is leading the “green-on-green” race with their startup, Bilberry, which they launched in Paris in 2015. Despite having no agricultural backgrounds to speak of, the twentysomethings developed an intelligent spot-spraying system...

https://youtu.be/8xbyvIclbp8 In this episode of Precision Perspectives, Jess Lowenberg-DeBoer of Harper Adams University in the U.K. discusses current research initiatives at the school, and makes the case for the value of robotics in grain applications....

Hand-in-hand with how machines and technology are going to advance farming is the discussion of how we, those working in the business, are going to adapt to this new normal. Nestled in the Red River Valley,...

Sometimes the collective precision agriculture sector seems like an insecure teenager who just can’t decide what nickname to go by. Site-specific farming? “Too old-fashioned.” Precision farming? “Isn’t that basically the same thing as site-specific farming?” Digital farming? “I don’t even know what...

Looking at the challenges to the adoption of precision agriculture, we’ve talked often about the ‘digital divide’ that exists between rural and urban areas of the U.S. Broadband availability and reliability lags considerably behind in rural areas, bottlenecking the...

In past articles I took the opportunity to introduce new companies that have entered the Brazilian agricultural market. These companies often bring a technology advantage to the sector, resulting in an increase in productivity for our farmers. For example,...

Last month I made the trek to downtown Chicago to attend the annual conference of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI), mercifully shorthanded to the event known as XPONENTIAL. This year was the eighth edition of the meeting,...

Drone sprayers have been used in Pacific Rim agriculture for more than two decades, and they gained California certification four years ago. But do they have potential beyond the orchard gate? Probably not, at least not in the foreseeable future,...

Sustainable precision agriculture is this century's most valuable innovation in farm management that is based on using information and communication technologies, notes The Hans India. India has many hurdles to adoption including farm size and educational and economic challenges. However,...

A new report by market analysts and consultants Tractica has said that global shipments of robots designed for agricultural use are set to rise to a value of $87.9 billion by 2025, reports TechHQ. Karen Lewis, a tree fruit specialist at...

As demographics continue to shift and change labor markets around the world, Bayer is looking for technology solutions that can help replace manpower that applies its crop protection products. Dr. Harald Printz, Bayer CropScience Japan's president and representative director, along...

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also referred to as drones, have captured the attention of almost every industry, including the fields of medicine, retail, media, and real estate. The agriculture industry is no exception to this, with PrecisionAg recently publishing...

I recently read an interesting article on FutureFarming.com about soil compaction in Brazil and how several companies are helping farmers to measure their soil. Farmers from Brazil and throughout South America are realizing how much soil compaction can hurt...

U.S. regulations are finally moving in the right direction for widespread ag drone adoption, allowing the U.S. to finally join places like Japan and China atop the medal podium of drone usage. Photo credit: China...

Delair today introduced a new model of its popular long-range UAV, the Delair DT26, which offers an easy-to-integrate architecture for adding user-specified sensors and other payloads to the platform. The Delair DT26 Open Payload model features a removable container...

Even in the worst case scenario – if just 10% of farmers use the technology – it would still be worth the massive sums the Government is investing, Communications Minister Richard Bruton has claimed, according to a report from...