Raven Industries announced today it will be utilizing its precision agriculture technologies to power the autonomous farming solutions of the future. Already a proven leader in many precision ag markets, Raven develops solutions that will be a pivotal tool...

In recent years, technology in agriculture, also known as AgTech has rapidly changed the industry, writes Daniel Newman on Forbes.com. In 2015, the industry’s investment in technology reached a whopping $4.6 billion — and that was three years ago!...

Growers such as Steve Pitstick can now use new intelligence gained from industrial AI seamlessly and autonomously in the context of their daily workflow to make smarter decisions. I go to great lengths to speak with...

The inaugural Growing Innovations conference and tradeshow is slated for Nov. 7-8 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. As a service provider, you and your grower customers probably can agree on this much: While innovation abounds...

Raven Industries and Farmers Edge announced today a marketing and collaboration agreement. The two companies are working together to develop new precision agriculture technologies that will rapidly increase expansion of Farmers Edge digital agronomy and risk management solutions in key...

Paramount Reports, a reporting platform developed by Ag Developer, was built to display data collected on the agX Platform in a clear and concise format that would best facilitate communication between trusted advisors and growers. Satellite imagery has now...

Agriculture today has been exploding with new advancements in technology, posing the future for a farm filled with data and information. Decoding and understanding this data through analysis and agronomics is key for success and finding the opportunities in...

Farmers Edge released a comprehensive R&D roadmap outlining its product enhancement and innovation plans through to 2019, according to a press release issued by the company. After introducing 19 new tools this year, Farmers Edge aims to release over 90...

The agricultural industry is in the midst of a smart farming evolution, and the Internet of Things (IoT) era has the potential to dramatically improve farming practices. Today, CropX, an ag analytics innovator, unveiled its latest soil intelligence platform, a powerful...

In 1936, deep in the throes of the Great Depression, the federal government moved forward with an initiative that would eventually modernize every home in rural America: the Rural Electrification Act (REA). Driven by the federal government, money began to...

Juan Sebastián Restrepo grows hydrangeas on Blue Mountain, a 5-acre farm on a hillside in Colombia. While its production process is fully manual, the farm would benefit greatly by adding IOT-based soil and plant sensors. As...

I was recently asked, “Where is imagery in digital farming?” Imagery, especially from satellites and increasingly from drones, is often proposed or inferred as the core functionality of digital farming. Why else would almost every digital farming discussion center...

With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), we are now seeing farmers use more wireless technologies to increase the quality and efficiency of production to achieve higher yields. IoT has opened the door for engineers to develop...

The Climate Corporation announced the addition of five industry-leading partners to The Climate Corporation’s Climate FieldView digital agriculture platform. The new partners -- AgWorks, DroneDeploy, MyAgData, Sentera and Skymatics -- will deliver powerful new capabilities and tremendous value for...

Indian startup AgNext has raised an undisclosed seed round led by India-focused Agtech VC Omnivore Partners along with Singaporean angel investor Samir Kumar, writes Emma Cosgrove on AgFunderNews.com. Before harvest, AgNext provides a varied suite of precision agriculture tools including...

Avocados are one of the few crops in Chile that can economically be commercially cultivated on hills. On one hand hills don’t contain pests or diseases that require frequent control measures, on the other hand however, maintenance and harvesting...

To say that the Golden State can lay claim to the title of king of almonds might be an understatement. In 2017, California accounted for nearly 80% of the world’s almond production, a crown jewel in the already impressively...

AgGateway, the non-profit organization with the mission to promote and enable the industry's transition to digital agriculture, is offering a limited-time 25% discount on 2018 rates for its Ag Industry Identification System (AGIIS) service, as an incentive to further...

Precision agriculture management requires understanding soil at increasingly finer scales. Conventional soil sampling and laboratory analyses often lack this granularity and can be time consuming and expensive. Remote soil sensing overcomes these shortcomings. Through its collection of spatial data...

For Harvest CROO Robotics’ automated strawberry harvester, the picking wheel is the heart of technology with cameras to identify ripe berries and clamps to pick them. Photo courtesy of Harvest CROO Robotics While the immigration debate...