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...
Analytics
March 11, 2019
Image Credit: AgNewsWire/Chuck Zimmerman
A little over a week and a half ago, the 2019 Commodity Classic took over the sprawling Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL, for the annual celebration of American farmers and...
Connectivity
March 1, 2019
Learn more about the companies that have committed their corporate and financial support to the PrecisionAg Institute, an independent global forum dedicated to the sharing of precision agriculture practices, ideas, research, products, services and success stories.
Digital Farming
February 27, 2019
The drone-deployable, multi spectral sensing unit that will capture the insights that power Syngenta and Sony's new Smart Agriculture Solution.
As part of the 2019 Commodity Classic Convention & Expo in Orlando, FL, this week, Syngenta...
Drones | UAVs
February 25, 2019
Corteva Agriscience announced today a global agreement with DroneDeploy to use DroneDeploy in its fleet of more than 400 DJI drones across the Company’s global Seed Production and Supply Chain, as well as its Pioneer Strategic Account Management and...
Analytics
February 21, 2019
https://youtu.be/nKAz-g7MAxs
John Deere's new Farm Forward video is a vision of how technology could drive increased productivity to feed a growing population. It was created to inspire conversations and help farmers visualize what the future of their farm will be....
Robotics | Automation
February 19, 2019
While the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to transform practically every aspect of our existence, the agriculture sector is only now starting to really benefit from technologies like sensors, according to an article on Nanalyze.com. Farmers are typically old-school...
Market Watch
February 19, 2019
“Smart farming,” which utilizes cutting-edge robotics and artificial intelligence, could hold the key to an agricultural resurgence in a nation of graying farmers and a general population reluctant to toil in the soil, according to an article by The...
Irrigation
February 15, 2019
Editor's note: This is part two of a three-part series on precision irrigation by Caleb Midgley of Iteris.
In the first installment of this three-part blog series we began to dive into the numbers from the USDA Farm & Ranch...
Analytics
February 15, 2019
FluroSat, Australia’s leading crop health analytics startup, recently led a successful bid with commercial partners Agworld, PCT Agcloud, AgLink Australia, and CSIRO for a A$3M Cooperative Research Centres Project (CRC-P) grant. The aim of the grant funding is to...
Industry News
February 14, 2019
Agriculture, one of the world’s oldest vocations, is also one that continues to reinvent itself with new technology, according to an article on AgDaily.com. From the introduction of the steel plow to automated tractors to modern fertilizer applications, technology...
Analytics
February 14, 2019
Ah yes, time again for our annual click-collecting effort here on PrecisionAg.com, otherwise known as our (quasi) annual list of companies that we think will make news in precision farming circles in 2019. Our 2018 entry in the series...
Analytics
February 12, 2019
AeroVironment today introduced the next generation of its Quantix VTOL hybrid drone and the AeroVironment Decision Support System (AV DSS) for precision agriculture. Enhancements across the Quantix & AV DSS ecosystem deliver a combination of new features, performance improvements...
Market Watch
February 11, 2019
Entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and moneyed folks who want to be a player in the effort to feed the world have discovered the $8 trillion agriculture industry, writes Lee Allen on GrowingProduce.com.
Forbes magazine noticed the trend in a 2016 article,...
Connectivity
February 6, 2019
Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Anne Hazlett today announced USDA has launched a new toolkit to help support the deployment of high-speed broadband e-Connectivity in rural communities.
“High-speed broadband e-Connectivity is becoming more and more essential to doing...
Connectivity
February 5, 2019
Jeremy Leifker welcomes attendees to the 2019 Develop With Deere Conference Jan. 23, 2019, at the Chicago Sheraton Grand in downtown Chicago, IL. (Photo Courtesy - AgNewsWire/ZimmComm)
The wide, wacky world of machine and data interconnectivity...
Irrigation
February 1, 2019
Editor's note: This is part one of a three-part series on precision irrigation by Caleb Midgley of Iteris.
I am a product manager in an industry that is still trying to find its footing. Precision agriculture technologies, particularly irrigation technologies,...
