The United Arab Emirates imports at least 80% of its food. A startup in the capital Abu Dhabi wants to help change that, reports CNN. Launched in 2016, Pure Harvest Smart Farms is developing smart greenhouses, using technology to allow...

It's no longer science fiction. Aussie farmers are increasingly turning to tech for help in the global competition to increase production efficiency, according to Farm Weekly. A new generation of innovative thinkers is fast-tracking that progress through the national SproutX...

Very few studies have examined precision agriculture in Canada, but a new one from University of Lethbridge researchers has put some numbers on the benefits, reports Alberta Farm Express. And they’re big — both in terms of reducing inputs and...

Robot farming startup Iron Ox has announced that it’s selling robot-reared leafy greens in a single location in California, The Verge reports. Iron Ox is one of a number of companies trying to automate the human-intensive work of agriculture. It...

Editor's note: Part Two of this three-part series on agricultural spraying drones features Bayer CropScience. Be sure to also check out Part One (ADAMA/Tactical Robotics) and Part Three (Rantizo). Drone technology in agriculture has moved rapidly though the technology hype...

PrecisionHawk today announced PrecisionAnalytics Agriculture, an aerial mapping, modeling, and agronomy platform purpose-built for precision agriculture, according to a Business Wire post on APNews.com. Using PrecisionAnalytics, business leaders in agriculture can apply the latest generation of analytics tools and artificial intelligence...

Meister Media Worldwide and its Global Precision Initiative are pleased to announce the expansion of the long-standing website PrecisionAg.com – among the first media sites in the world devoted exclusively to agricultural technology – as a global digital source...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E45hQxGsbXY&w=560&h=315 Gedera, Israel area-based Tevel Aerobotics Technologies says it has come up with an automated drone that can do the labor-intensive fruit-picking quickly and efficiently, taking over from humans in the orchards and greenhouses, writes Federico Maccioni for TimesofIsrael.com. “There is...

South African agri-tech startup Aerobotics, which launched a batch of new products late last year, expanded its Series A funding round to US $4 million last month and has now launched Aeroview InField, a brand new problem detection app...

Much has happened since we last spoke with Taranis in the fall of 2018. Since raising $20 million in Series B funding, the Israeli smart farming start-up has tripled its customer base and acres serviced to 20 million-plus, and...

Editor's note: Part One of this three-part series on agricultural spraying drones features ADAMA/Tactical Robotics. Be sure to also check out Part Two (Bayer CropScience) and Part Three (Rantizo). Drone technology in agriculture has moved rapidly though the technology hype...

The VISION Conference has become established as the definitive precision agriculture and digital farming conference for North America. Pictured: Meister Media Worldwide Group Editor Paul Schrimpf moderates a session at the 2019 VISION Conference in...

A Purdue University researcher has come up with a patented design for drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles, that works in windy conditions, is more energy efficient, and can handle a larger payload. Credit: Xiumin Diao/Purdue...

Sentera has announced the launch of a miniature high-speed brushless gimbal customized for Sentera Single sensors mounted on DJI Phantom 4 Pro V2.0 equipment, according to a press release on Sentera.com. The gimbal boosts acres-per-hour coverage by 40 percent,...

While most industries have been using modern software solutions for years, the farming industry has been slower to adopt. Most farmers are still relying on paper and ink or at best, make use of spreadsheets and some type of...

One way to effectively monitor weeds is using remote sensing data, especially those obtained by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), writes Vidi Nene for DroneBelow.com. In a recent study carried out by the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research-Remote Sensing Division...

Farm drones have come a long way (a veritable COUNTRY MILE, if you will)  since they first started hitting the InfoAg trade show floor back in 2013, and they’ve come an even longer way in the last two and...

A Cape Town, South Africa agri-tech start-up company held a post-harvest vineyard management workshop in Paarl to educate farmers and the agricultural industry on how to use the latest innovations in precision agriculture, reports Mthuthuzeli Ntseku for Independent Online. Aerobotics...

As the world’s population continues to increase at a fast pace, more food and water will be needed to sustain humanity, writes Mark Trapolino at Sensors Online. In the past 50 years, we have tripled our need for water...

A field robotics start-up based on technology created by the University of Sydney's Australian Centre for Field Robotics has received a $6.5 million investment, thanks to Australia's longest running research commercialization fund, Uniseed. Founded by University of Sydney Professor of Robotics...