UrtheCast Corp. and Land O’ Lakes, Inc., one of the United States' premier agribusiness and food companies, today announced a long-term agreement for GEOSYS, a Land O’Lakes subsidiary, to purchase geospatial data from the UrtheDaily Constellation, UrtheCast’s planned constellation...

For two straight growing seasons, crop fields in a portion of Ukraine have benefited from unmanned aircraft vehicles used to spray bio-pesticide and liquid fertilizer, reports UAS Magazine's Luke Geiver in a recent report. Although large-scale unmanned aircraft systems...

Hortau, a provider of precision irrigation management systems and services for agriculture since 2002, continues its rapid growth heading into 2017 — when the company will celebrate its 15-year anniversary. Hortau enjoyed another year of expansion in 2016, growing sales...

EDITOR'S NOTE: DRONELIFE originally published this article in 2014 – this article has been completely updated from the original as of 2017. While drones are spreading into industries from warehousing to oil exploration, precision agriculture remains one of the most...

For the professionals and organizations providing agronomic and technology advice to farmers, the battle to create a sustainable service business has never been more challenging. The farmer-trusted adviser relationship has had a long, storied relationship that...

T-L Irrigation Co., the exclusive manufacturer of hydrostatically powered pivot irrigation systems, is pleased to announce the availability of its GPS Navigation Linear System. The GPS Navigation Linear System is the ultimate in design simplicity, claims the company. Featuring Real...

For agriculture service providers, evolving sensor technology is viewed with a sense of endless possibilities, mixed with a bit of trepidation.  Sensors can seemingly do about anything on the farm. Measure soil characteristics with electrical current? Check. Monitor soil...

Blue River’s weed-targeting See & Spray technology spent 2016 in California getting put through its paces. In 2017, research and testing shifts to the Southeast. At the PrecisionAg® Vision Conference last October, Bill Schmarzo, renowned expert...

There are a number of robotics providers that are demonstrating autonomous driving, delicate handling, high-speed motion, and independent data collection in agriculture. Agriculture has both led and trailed in the use of technology over the past...

For many years satellite imagery was a solution in search of a viable precision agriculture system in which it could deliver value. In-season, on-demand imagery was often hampered by cloud cover and a dearth of available satellites for taking...

From the service provider standpoint, getting into the aerial imagery as a service game was once an either/or proposition: Either you partner locally with a fleet of aerial application planes for weekly flyovers with a sensor payload, or you...

Veris’ electrical conductivity (EC) system for grading soil types has endured for years on the strength of its true believers and slow, steady growth. Used as the foundational test for zone management schemes, Veris has gained users with the...

Aside from field and equipment-deployed sensing, the other end of the spectrum is sensing in the grain bin. From the perspective of the local cooperative storing and marketing its grower-customers’ grain, success here is absolutely vital in keeping that...

Sensors are certainly nothing new to agriculture. Although they are getting more and more robust, on-board sensors have been providing feedback on the operation of machinery for many years. Liquid tank monitors on bulk chemical tanks have been tracking...

Representatives from Partner organizations supporting the PrecisionAg® Institute in 2017 describe their companies’ unique roles, explain how they support retailer/dealer professionals, and take a stab at longer-term prospects in the quest for increased precision adoption. WinField United Teddy Bekele Vice President of...

Last year, (2016) was often called the year of the drone by many reporters, tech advocates and news agencies. Many small drone service companies took off the ground, mid-size businesses augmented existing services, and even corporations are now looking...

Technology is going mobile, allowing growers to access information in the field from tablets or phones. Photo courtesy of Highland Precision Ag This year, the iPhone will celebrate its 10th birthday. In only a decade, smartphones...

With President-Elect Donald Trump's selection of Sonny Perdue as the new proposed Secretary of Agriculture, it brings a new set of questions as to the broader impact on the future of entire agriculture industry spectrum, including ag technology. Below...

*Article Notes: This monthly column takes some crazy sounding ideas and applies them to the field of Ag Tech. The purpose of this is purely entertainment, but hey, if we can spread ideas, or ignite imaginations, how awesome is...

Tej Kohli, a serial entrepreneur, global businessman and philanthropist, has announced he has earmarked an initial $25 million USD, through his family office, Kohli Ventures, for a high impact investment fund. The Kohli Impact Investment Initiative will be used to...