Winters Farming farm manager Alex Bergwerff (left) and Ranch Systems marketing and business development manager Hylon Kaufmann discuss water management in Manteca, CA. As many of us already know, almonds tend to get a bad rap...

Sentera announces the availability of elevation maps within the Sentera AgVault platform, offering agronomists, crop consultants, and growers additional field insights. The system now delivers elevation variance maps. Topography and elevation data helps ag professionals increase operating efficiencies when...

Data capture is near real-time and on demand with agricultural drones. There is not a remote sensing platform that is innately better at all things: satellites, manned aircraft, and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) all fill a...

It was an exciting year in farm technology involving a few high profile venture capital exits and some of the largest deals on record, writes AgFunder.com's Emma Cosgrove. In fact, funding records for this category and the subcategories within were...

I recently attended the Emerald Cup, a large two-day gathering of the California cannabis industry, which was first posted on sUASnews.com. Tens of thousands of participants, growers, associations, and grow-related businesses descended on the Sonoma County fairgrounds in Santa...

As seen in the images above, Ceres proved helpful identifying outbreaks of Cercospora beneath a healthy-looking soybean canopy. Ceres Imaging, which provides science-backed aerial images to growers, will offer Midwestern corn and soybean farmers an early...

American Robotics, an industrial drone developer specializing in agricultural automation, has unveiled its flagship product Scout. It is a self-charging, self-managing drone system capable of autonomously carrying out daily scouting missions. Scout from American Robotics is...

Seated from left: Prof. Dr. Arno Ruckelshausen, Dr. Bernd Scherer, and Dr. Reinhard Grandke. While North American growers slog through yet another season of depressed farm incomes and commodity markets, across the pond it’s looking like...

Simon Blackmore: “Agricultural robots are here. They are moving from academia into the commercial sector." The market for agricultural robotics market is small but burgeoning, and their impact is likely to be quite a bit more...

Some estimates suggest over half of growers’ activities are impacted by weather conditions, from field workability to fertility management to harvest timing. No wonder more companies are entering the weather data and analysis space, either with standalone products or by teaming...

Monash University is establishing an ag-tech facility in Melbourne’s southeast with the vision to innovate new smart farming techniques including automated harvesting and driverless vehicles in response to the growing challenges faced by the agriculture sector, writes Priyankar Bhunia...

In the late 1990's, Oklahoma State University (OSU) developed a way to determine nitrogen (N) fertilizer requirements, writes Wilma Trujillo on Journal-Advocate.com. The new N management strategy addressed two conditions that greatly affect how much N fertilizer a crop...

Agritechnica 2017 wrapped up this past weekend, and now with the show in the books and a few days to think about/process everything seen and heard in Hannover, Germany last week, I have but one overriding thought to offer:...

This soybean field in Mato Grasso, Brazil, was photographed from 65 meters up by an agricultural drone. Technology adoption usually occurs in stages. In agriculture, it progresses best when new innovations are spurred by competition, and...

The Springfield Beckley-Municipal Airport now has a new hangar for unmanned aircraft and precision agriculture, writes Allyson Brown on GovTech.com. The new hangar, the Clark State-Ohio Center for Precision Agriculture, is a part of a $1.2 million project to build...

The Climate Corp., a subsidiary of Monsanto Co., has announced a partnership with Deveron UAS Corp., that will deliver farmers advanced aerial imagery data combined with powerful analytics through The Climate Corp.'s industry-leading Climate FieldView digital agriculture platform. The...

At its annual conference last week, AgGateway honored individuals and companies that are advancing electronic connectivity efforts in agriculture and related industries, thereby expanding the use of information to maximize efficiency and productivity. Randy Fry, Data Process and Information Systems...

Intelligent Agricultural Solutions, LLC (Intelligent Ag), a leader in electronics innovations for modern farming, has released Engage Zone Control, the industry’s first retrofit section control available for John Deere air carts. Custom designed and built for the popular John Deere...

The Climate Corp., a subsidiary of Monsanto Co., has announced at Agritechnica, the world’s leading trade fair for agricultural machinery, the pre-commercial launch of the Climate FieldView digital agriculture platform into regions of Europe for the 2018 growing season....

Topcon Agriculture has introduced TAP, the Topcon Agriculture Platform, a cloud-based agricultural ecosystem designed to provide real-time monitoring and data analysis for smart decision making during every phase of the farming cycle. “The platform is part of our goal to...