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...

In a field that’s both 30-40 years old and also perpetually new, precision agriculture suppliers can range from the granddaddies of farm equipment to the latest startup in somebody’s garage. How can someone possibly get a handle on the emerging...

The Federal Communications Commission is forming a new task force to advise the commission on how to ensure farmers and ranchers have the connectivity they need to use and benefit from precision agriculture, according to an article by the...

ADAMA US, a leading global crop protection company, announced on Tuesday it will begin offering ADAMA Eagle Eye powered by Agremo to its customers. The service offers an advanced analysis of aerial data and imagery that helps growers protect yields...

Editor's note: Last month Growing Produce Technology Editor Matthew Grassi published a list of 10 tech companies he feels has a chance to move the needle with specialty crop growers. It was by no means an exhaustive list, as...

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...