The new Parrot Sequoia+ multispectral sensor. Tools dedicated to precision agriculture help farmers and agronomists optimize their crop's ROI and improve their daily productivity. The extreme precision and analysis enables farming experts to make well thought...

As wireless sensors become smaller, less expensive, and easier to use, farmers are beginning to deploy themin greater numbers to better detect the wide-ranging soil conditions across their fields. As any farmer can attest, agricultural fields...

Aymeric Barthès, Naïo Technologies Co-Founder and CEO. One to watch in the growing agribotics niche is Naïo Technologies out of Toulouse, France. The company has a trio of robots that have been fully commercialized, ranging in...

Pix4D is announcing Pix4Dfields, software that the company claims is the first fully dedicated product to give users fast and accurate maps while in the field, with a simple yet powerful interface fully dedicated to agriculture. When Pix4D first decided to...

Sentera today announced the immediate availability of the Sentera AGX710 gimbaled precision agriculture sensor with plug-and-play integration for DJI's industry leading Matrice 200 Series industrial drones. The AGX710 sensor delivers exceptional crop health insights and enables ag professionals to...

The Accelerating Precision to Decision Agriculture (P2D) project is supported by funding from the Australian Government's Department of Agriculture and Water Resources as part of its Rural R&D for Profit program. Led by CRDC, the P2D project involves all...

Gorham If only software from precision agriculture companies was more like Facebook or Google, no one in North America would be talking about how reluctant farmers are to use it. Sid Gorham, chief executive and co-founder of...

Sentera announces the general release of its RTK GPS precision positioning module for the PHX Pro fixed-wing drone. The module delivers true L1/L2, multi-constellation RTK to the PHX Pro. Sentera's RTK solution offers survey, agriculture, and mapping customers sub-5cm and...

Robots – are they just a thing of the future? Many in the agriculture sector agree that the industry is heading in the direction of having more technology on the farm, which could even include robots. In fact, there...

Automation has been at the forefront of our minds for decades, if not centuries. Whether we’re talking about those who worked in flour mills or those who dealt with windmills, automated processes have always been on inventors’ minds. While...

Walmart is applying for a range of patents using drones to automate farming. The move could support its grocery business and give the giant greater control over its supply chain, according to a report on CBInsights.com. As Walmart goes head...

What do trees, drones, and minefields all have in common? Precision aerial planting. A concept first introduced in the 1930’s (possibly as early as 1926) to originally reseed a mountain in Honolulu, planting via an airplane has captured our imagination...

AgGateway has submitted its proposed irrigation data exchange standard to the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE), a major achievement in precision agriculture to help growers manage data from their irrigation management systems. The standard is the result...

There is a favorite expression of mine that I love to apply to meteorology: “Measure with a micrometer, mark it with chalk and cut it with an axe.” We can quickly get wrapped up in the allure of precision, spending...

Data is undeniably a valuable asset. Yet, in the ag ecosystem, who’s seeing the value from it? A recent article on PrecisionAg.com highlights how growers aren’t seeing value from data since, “The yield map book usually serves as a coaster...

This unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is equipped with a LiDAR camera. Photo courtesy of UF/IFAS Dr. Yiannis Ampatzidis recently joined the faculty at UF/IFAS Southwest Florida Research and Education Center (SWFREC) in Immokalee, writes Frank Giles on...

AgReliant Genetics, the third largest seed company in North America, and The Climate Corp., a subsidiary of Monsanto Co., have announced a data connectivity agreement between Advantage Acre, AgReliant Genetics’ suite of digital technologies, and The Climate Corp.’s Climate FieldView digital...

With increased value provided by edge computing to security improvements with Blockchain integration, IoT platforms across the board are just starting to get sexy. The intelligent digital mesh is evolving and enterprises today are paying attention to the disruption and...

Lindsay Corp., a leading global manufacturer and distributor of irrigation and infrastructure equipment and technology, today hosted Water Matters 3.6.18 – an educational event focused on efficient irrigation and the role it plays in precision agriculture and emerging smart...

Comedian Mark Mayfield opens Commodity Classic 2018 at the General Session. Once the annual end-of-winter blowout known as Commodity Classic wraps, it basically signals that we've reached go-time for agriculture. The new products, high-yielding seed varieties, and...