In-Field Technologies
March 29, 2019
Attendees at the DOT Demo Day on March 27 at the University of Arizona Maricopa Research Farm got an up-close look at DOT Technology Corp.'s autonomous farm robot.
Attendees at the DOT demo day held at...
In-Field Technologies
March 29, 2019
Most farmers can tell at a glance if their crop is ready to harvest. Josh Lessing has a robot that can do that, too, reports Hiawatha Bray for the Boston Globe.
Lessing is cofounder of startup in Somerville, Massachusetts, U.S.,...
In-Field Technologies
March 29, 2019
Roboticists are creating crop-specific machines to harvest fruits and veggies, reports Matt Simon for Wired. There’s the robot that harvests lettuce with a knife made of water. Now comes the apple-picking robot, a metallic farmer that just graduated from...
Market Watch
March 29, 2019
Modern technologies have revolutionized every industry sector and agriculture is no exception. Smart farming using IoT will give rise to more efficient farming techniques and transform the agricultural sector, writes Naveen Roshi on BBN Times.
The advent of modern technologies...
Connectivity
March 28, 2019
Is it possible for a couple of words on one question in the U.S. Census to create data that misleads lawmakers, regulators, and the general public about the availability of broadband internet access in Rural America? A recent report...
Drones | UAVs
March 28, 2019
Increasingly regulation, combined with bad press for drones, is causing a mild decline in recreational drone sales, so DJI of China is directing more attention to promoting drones for agriculture, according to Drone Reviews and News.
The Financial Times is...
Irrigation
March 27, 2019
Editor’s note: This is part three of a three-part series on precision irrigation by Caleb Midgley of Iteris.
For the final installment of this irrigation scheduling blog series – please read part one and part two if you haven’t already –...
Irrigation
March 27, 2019
Hortau, a Lévis, Québec-based provider of precision irrigation management services for agriculture, has closed a $20 million financing, writes Kirk Falconer at The PE Hub Network.
The round was backed by Export Development Canada, which invested $7 million, and Fonds...
Connectivity
March 26, 2019
We traditionally think of infrastructure as the roads and bridges that connect our cities and people with one another, writes Lisa R. Youngers on TheHill.com. While these are critical components of any nation’s infrastructure, in our increasingly digital world,...
Drones | UAVs
March 25, 2019
Regardless of whether you are an independent flier or a corporate entity using drones for various tasks, mapping is one of the biggest utilizations for drone technology to date, writes Mark Sheehan fo Commerical UAV News. Thankfully, there are...
Industry News
March 25, 2019
Leading global crop protection company ADAMA Ltd. has partnered with Tactical Robotics Ltd., an innovative Israeli aerospace company, in a joint feasibility study for a High-Payload, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for aerial spraying.
Tactical Robotics has developed the Cormorant, a...
Analytics
March 22, 2019
Two powerful trends – the Internet of Things (IoT) and data analytics – are generating lots of press for their industrial and infrastructure applications, writes Rich Quinnell for EE Times. But there is another application space that is quietly...
Drones | UAVs
March 21, 2019
To hear the early adopters for drone technology tell it, low-flying platforms equipped with multi-spectral sensors can deliver high-resolution field data on everything from the performance of irrigation systems to soil maps that tell growers where and when to...
Drones | UAVs
March 20, 2019
The agriculture ministry of Japan has unveiled a plan to promote the spread of drones for agriculture to cope with the aging of farmers and shortages of successors of farms in the country, reports The Japan News.
In the plan...
Irrigation
March 20, 2019
Prospera, an Israeli ag-tech company, plans to turn 60,000 irrigation pivots in open fields into artificial intelligence (AI) autonomous growing machines that can operate 24/7, writes Jennifer Kite-Powell on Forbes.com. Through a new partnership with irrigation company Valley, the...
Connectivity
March 18, 2019
Montana State Representative Daniel Zolnikov uses his home state as an object example of how the FCC is, despite its best efforts, likely understating the scope of the gap in broadband availability for rural America. Zolnikov (R-Billings) represents House...
Connectivity
March 14, 2019
Proagrica, the leading provider of integrated data connectivity solutions for the agricultural sector, is on a mission: to guide the industry towards 100% connectivity and embrace the changes and benefits brought by the new data revolution.
“The industry is changing,”...
Digital Farming
March 13, 2019
Mauricio Nicocelli Netto and his colleagues from IMAmt got a first-hand look at the Swarmbot 5, which started tests this week all over Australia.
In the last week of February, me and two colleagues from Brazil's...
Drones | UAVs
March 13, 2019
The MicaSense RedEdge-MX multi spectral sensor
senseFly and MicaSense today announce a new dual drone and integrated sensor solution for in-depth crop analysis—the senseFly eBee X with MicaSense RedEdge-MX.
“We know from agricultural customers such as agronomists,...
Market Watch
March 12, 2019
The end of the world is coming … eventually. Shortly before his death last year, famed physicist Stephen Hawking left us with several rather grim predictions for the future of Earth and life on it. At the top of...