Variable rate irrigation (VRI) can allow growers to address field variability and potentially conserve resources and improve yield. Photo: Copyright Valmont Industries, Inc. All rights reserved. Water management is becoming an increasing concern in agriculture, whether that’s...

Via DroneLife.com's Jason Reagan: According to an August study by Esticast Research & Consulting Market Research, the global commercial drone market may reach $3.6 billion by 2024. However, a new study forecasts an even larger bumper crop for just one...

As the domestic ag tech market continues to mature and develop as we barrel into 2018, another intriguing partnership has emerged from the shadows. Winnipeg-based Farm Management Information System (FMIS) outfit Farmers Edge — a company founded and headed...

From the Rose Garden at the White House, to the laser-leveled fields of Yuma, AZ (home to 90% of this country’s winter leafy greens), data analysis, precision/digital agriculture, and drones are hot topics of conversation, writes Lee Allen on...

Ready or not, farming as we know it is changing – out of necessity. Lack of adequate labor, along with an urgent need to feed a constantly growing global population, is forcing more producers to innovate. To help growers...

Deepfield Robotics is preparing to showcase its robotics and automation technologies for the agriculture market at the Agrilevante event, in Italy, according to an article on RoboticsandAutomationNews.com. The company is a startup established by industrial giant Bosch, and has a...

Chernovetskyi Investment Group (CIG) has reached an agreement on investment into Kray Technologies company, which manufactures Kray Protection industrial robotic cargo UAVs (drones) for spraying with plant protection products and regulators of crop yield growth, according to an article...

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...