Market Watch
September 13, 2017
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...
Imagery
September 12, 2017
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...
In-Field Technologies
September 11, 2017
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 —...
Connectivity
September 8, 2017
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),...
Guidance
September 7, 2017
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...
Drones | UAVs
September 7, 2017
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...
Connectivity
September 6, 2017
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...
Market Watch
September 1, 2017
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...
Drones | UAVs
August 31, 2017
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...
Connectivity
August 31, 2017
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...
Imagery
August 30, 2017
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...
Guidance
August 30, 2017
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,...
Connectivity
August 30, 2017
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...
Market Watch
August 30, 2017
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...
In-Field Technologies
August 28, 2017
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...
Connectivity
August 24, 2017
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...
Industry News
August 23, 2017
Last week AGCO hosted the Minnesota leg of its second annual summer U.S. Corn Belt Crop Tour at Nelson Farm, a corn and soybean operation on the outskirts of Hanska, MN, which is about an hour southeast of the...
Guidance
August 23, 2017
Raven Industries announces the release of two new precision agriculture products: RS1 and CR7.
The RS1 combines autosteer, GPS, and Slingshot into one intuitive, easy-to-use unit for navigation. The RS1’s incredible accuracy at both high and low speeds, along with...
Connectivity
August 22, 2017
Four leading agribusinesses, Wheat Growers, Landus Cooperative, Central Valley Ag and WinField United, have signed a letter of intent to form a joint venture called FieldReveal to provide ag retailers with a proven, easy-to-use precision ag platform by the...
Connectivity
August 21, 2017
AMVAC Chemical Corp. has signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding with Trimble. The two companies are working toward an agreement that will grant Trimble global distribution rights for the patented SIMPAS prescriptive application equipment from AMVAC. The SIMPAS distribution...