Irrigation
August 16, 2017
In the last week, AgriHub, formed by farmers and consultants from Brazil, visited 10 Israeli agribusiness companies, including the Ministry of Agriculture, some ag tech startups, and the Volcani Institute, which is responsible for research in the country. It...
In-Field Technologies
August 15, 2017
With new, specialized offerings from equipment manufacturers, such as Gregoire, there's been an uptick in opportunities for grape growers to mechanize practices, leading to more economical, efficient, and effective businesses.
Precision technology moves at different speeds...
Connectivity
August 10, 2017
Acclerator, incubator, start-up, connectivity — the buzzwords of the digital age can be clear as, well, mud, writes Alex Sampson on WeeklyTimesNow.com.au.
And when lumped under the umbrella term “agtech”, it’s no wonder farmers, investors and business leaders can be...
Digital Farming
August 10, 2017
If you’re interested in an intense, week-long immersion in the use of high-tech products and practices in New Zealand agriculture, then this event could be just the opportunity you are looking for.
Space Exploration Asia Sdn Bhd (Malaysia) has partnered...
Imagery
August 6, 2017
SatShot President Lanny Faleide has been a fixture on the remote imagery scene for as long as about anyone still trying to make the technology work for agriculture. He was one of the first people we met back in...
Market Watch
August 4, 2017
Ag Info Tech in Fredericktown, OH
With fall harvest a few weeks away for most of the country, ag service providers from every walk of life are getting ready for yield monitor calibration season. Ag Info...
Imagery
August 3, 2017
It starts with Big Maps, Google Earth, and GPS on iPhones and Androids. But it’s the combination of easy access to, and use of, high quality imagery — combined with agronomy tools like Climate FieldView and SST — that...
Imagery
August 2, 2017
These photos demonstrate the stark difference between (left) medium and very high resolution.
Field imagery in agriculture has been around for decades. But as the industry stands in “Crop Season 2017,” agriculture still has a ways...
Imagery
August 2, 2017
Camouflage photography, developed during World War II, opened the era of remotely sensed images and the possibility of seeing more than the visible light spectrum that the human eye can see. On either side of the visible light spectrum...
Imagery
August 2, 2017
As you have seen throughout this report, aerial imagery has been a “thing” in agriculture for decades. Systems and delivery mechanisms have come, gone, and evolved. New satellite deployment for image capture has exploded in recent years, while the...
Imagery
August 2, 2017
Look around a bit, and you will find lots of information and ideas about when and how to use imagery for row crop management on the Internet. Whole books have been written about this subject, and lots of papers...
Market Watch
August 1, 2017
Here at PrecisionAg® Professional we’re all about the numbers.
And taking a look back at the numbers, it appears that many of you thoroughly enjoyed June's featured Listicle, the “Top 10 Most Intriguing Technologies in Agriculture,” making it the top viewed...
Connectivity
July 28, 2017
As I sit here and ponder just what it was that we all experienced last week, off the top of mind I'd say InfoAg 2017 seemed vastly different from the previous iteration — perhaps a bit subdued, or less...
In-Field Technologies
July 28, 2017
One company in North Dakota owns 42,000 acres of prime farmland, 34 grain elevators, a grain-trading firm, and three company towns with dozens of smaller company-owned businesses.
Never heard of it? Probably because the year is 1893.
Bonanza farms, as it...
Drones | UAVs
July 28, 2017
MicaSense Atlas is now integrated with Pix4D desktop software.
This exciting partnership is designed to offer MicaSense customers the power of desktop processing, as well as the flexibility of MicaSense Atlas.
“Our customers value Atlas as an analytics and collaboration platform,”...
Connectivity
July 26, 2017
Senet, a provider of global connectivity and network management for the Internet of Things, and Sensoterra BV, a provider of low-cost, wireless soil moisture measurement sensors, today announced a multi-year partnership to operate Sensoterra’s soil moisture system on Senet’s...
Connectivity
July 26, 2017
AGCO and The Climate Corp. announced today that a definitive agreement has been signed for AGCO to acquire the Precision Planting equipment business.
(RELATED: Ohio Precision Planting Dealer Comments on Possible Merger Partners)
“Precision Planting is a strong business that plays...
Connectivity
July 26, 2017
Trimble and CNH Industrial are enabling wireless connectivity between Trimble Ag Software and Case IH Advanced Farming Systems Connect and New Holland Precision Land Management Connect telematics platforms in North America.
Trimble and CNH Industrial, a...
Imagery
July 25, 2017
EFC Systems, Inc. has announced a new integration between its FieldAlytics product and Geosys Bridge API for direct delivery of in-season and historical imagery. With this functionality now in release, FieldAlytics users can leverage field-level satellite imagery layers and...
Data Management
July 13, 2017
It is mid-July, which, for the Australian cotton industry, means that picking is still going on for some growers. A different group of growers, however, is getting ready to start planting cotton again in three weeks time, and the...
