Since our acquisition of Terra Bella, and the SkySat constellation of seven satellites, we’ve been focused on making this high-resolution data accessible and available via our cloud-based data infrastructure. After four months of heavy lifting from our spacecraft, data...

Despite its superpower status as a producer and exporter of agricultural goods and services, up until now Australia has had only one accelerator program – SproutX – that has focused on AgTech, writes Aimee Chanthadavong on InnovationAUS.com. Until now that...

The vision of having license-free community sensor networks for agricultural users has made a giant leap closer to reality. A team of collaborating companies connected a Vinduino agricultural sensor station to the eVineyard application via a long-range wireless data...

I recently attended the Forbes AgTech Summit in Salinas, CA, where roughly 50 start-up companies originating from Silicon Valley and other high-tech regions of the country demonstrated their latest wares for the agriculture industry. Many of these companies are developing...

Several months ago I wrote an article about curve compensation in planters and how these systems can help create more uniform stands and improved yield in fields with curves. Another area where there is a lot of value with curve...

As the growing season has progressed, aerial imagery has been part of the world record setting data-collection efforts for Terra, a single corn plant in a Farm Science Review field, writes Matt Reese of Ohio's Country Journal and Ohio...

One of Blue River's R&D See & Spray rigs hard at work in a cotton field outside of Lubbock, TX, in July 2017. No, Blue River Co-founder and CEO Jorge Heraud has not been deposed —...

John Deere’s recent acquisition of Blue River Technology (BRT) isn’t just meaningful for farmers. It suggests that the very systems that agriculture uses to deliver crop protection products are undergoing another convulsive change. Kiersten Stead of Monsanto Growth Ventures (MGV),...

DigiFarm VBN LLC, an agricultural technology company, announces it has signed a supplier agreement with AGCO Corp., a world-leading manufacturer and distributor of agricultural equipment solutions. The supplier agreement will offer DigiFarm VBN (Virtual Base Network) cellular hardware and...

The farming industry is on the cusp of a so-called ‘technological revolution,’ writes Sohini Bagchi on CXOToday.com. With drones, robots and intelligent monitoring systems now successfully being used in research and field trials, artificial intelligence, or machine learning, is...

Deere & Company has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Blue River Technology, an agriculture technology company specializing in machine learning. “We welcome the opportunity to work with a Blue River Technology team that is highly skilled and intensely dedicated...

With Farm Progress Show wrapping up just yesterday, and our own Innovation Series having closed it's doors on 2017 this past Monday with a fantastic meeting in Champaign, IL, at the I Hotel, with those events in the rear...

Sentera today announced new features for the NDVI Toolbox in Sentera AgVault Desktop. The new tools offer agriculture professionals improved field insights for use on and off the field. New capabilities include zone management, a basic prescription-writing tool, and...

Lack of broadband access, labor shortages, and the financial difficulty of getting started in agriculture were all up for discussion Friday at Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue’s listening session, writes Stuart Taylor on TiftonGazette.com. Held at the University of Georgia...

Airbus Defence and Space has entered into an agreement with the GIS mapping engine operator Satshot to provide high-resolution SPOT 6/7 satellite data over a large area of the corn and wheat belt within the continental United States. SPOT...

Outback Guidance, a leader in automated steering and advanced precision farming solutions, and a part of AgJunction, Inc., is launching its hands-free farming campaign at the Farm Progress show 2017, which is being held August 29-31, 2017 in Decatur,...

The Climate Corp. announced at Farm Progress Show the addition of new features and data connectivity enhancements for the 2018 season to its Climate FieldView digital agriculture platform. Additionally, Climate announced R&D advancements accelerating through the company’s innovation pipeline...

AgTech is increasingly being used to help solve complex problems in agriculture to meet the needs of our modern, high-tech food system. To keep up with these challenges, companies seek employees with backgrounds in agriculture and information technology, according...

Dr. Ed Barnes of Cotton Incorporated is at it again. A recent article posted on GrowingGeorgia.com describes the preliminary work that Barnes – Cotton Inc.’s senior director of Agricultural and Environmental Research – is conducting to test the viability of...

BASF and Proagrica have signed a development and operation agreement to bring one of the first farm management system interfaces to market. Growers will benefit as they will be able to connect BASF’s digital offer Maglis with different digital...