Market Watch
July 7, 2016
Smart Farming is not just for large farms and research centers, but is starting to impact small and medium-sized farms, says Beecham Research, a leading IoT analyst and research firm that looks closely at the agriculture sector.
“The farming industry...
Irrigation
July 6, 2016
Made for growers, by growers, CropMetrics creates easy-to-use software that can be integrated with current precision ag software. The latest product, VRI 2.0 is a cloud-based software designed to adapt any grower and field to Variable Rate Irrigation –...
Market Watch
July 6, 2016
Who says agriculture is a low-tech enterprise?
Not conglomerate Calata Corp., which has partnered with Austrian firm Pessl Instruments GmbH to sow the seed of the cutting-edge Internet of Things (IoT) in Philippine farming, reports Angel Palpal-Iatoc and Ronnel W....
Guidance
July 6, 2016
AgJunction Inc. and TeeJet Technologies, one of the world's leading application technology providers for agriculture, have entered into a global strategic partnership. AgJunction will become the preferred steering supplier for TeeJet's range of precision farming solutions. This new agreement...
Drones | UAVs
July 5, 2016
According to a recently-issued joint press release, Skyward and senseFly are partnering to deliver a custom operations management software and consulting services package for senseFly aircraft.
The package, available for customers in North America through the senseFly distribution network or...
Drones | UAVs
June 28, 2016
A team in Saga, Japan, has successfully developed Agridrone, which will seek out and terminate 50 different types of pests.
Agridrone was created in a joint project of Saga University, Saga Prefecture, and IT firm OPTiM....
Data Management
June 27, 2016
Sentera, LLC sensors have officially captured over 25,000,000 acres of images. Sentera's AgVault 2.0 Software translates this imagery into actionable data for the precision agriculture industry. Sentera's unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), precision sensors, and software are recognized by customers...
Drones | UAVs
June 21, 2016
Today, FAA has finalized the first operational rules for routine commercial use of small unmanned aircraft systems, opening pathways towards fully integrating UAS into the nation’s airspace. These new regulations work to harness new innovations safely, to spur job...
Drones | UAVs
June 16, 2016
Milrem and Leica Geosystems today announced Pegasus:Multiscope, the first unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) for off-road use, opening new applications in surveying, security, and monitoring.
Combining Milrem’s Multiscope UGV and Leica Geosystems’ Pegasus:Two mobile mapping sensor platform, the UGV provides faster,...
Data Management
June 14, 2016
In combination with other “smart” techniques, drones can contribute to enhanced resource efficiency, productivity and profitability as well as greater sustainability, contributing to the fight against environmental damage.
EU agricultural co-operative Copa & Cogeca has underlined...
Drones | UAVs
June 9, 2016
Sentera, LLC, a global provider of UAV hardware, sensors and data management platforms, brings a whole new level of control to users with the Phoenix 2 Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), launched today. The Phoenix 2 is light-weight and...
Drones | UAVs
June 8, 2016
Sentera, a global provider of software, sensors, and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), announces the addition of autonomous UAV route planning to its AgVault 2.0. Mobile app. The added capability works with the DJI PHANTOM 4, PHANTOM 3, and INSPIRE...
Guidance
June 1, 2016
Two new row guidance products available for John Deere sprayers
Two new AutoTrac products are available to help row crop producers and ag service providers more accurately navigate row-crop fields when making postemergence sprayer applications.
AutoTrac Vision utilizes a single-lens camera...
Drones | UAVs
June 1, 2016
The NDSU project uses this Hermes 450, a plane that weighs 1,200 pounds and has a 35-foot wingspan. The plane is owned by Elbit Systems of Haifa, Israel. It carries up to 400 pounds of...
Irrigation
May 31, 2016
FIGARO, an EU-funded international project focused on developing the new precision agriculture Decision Support System (DSS) to improve irrigation management for increasing water productivity, will unveil the world's most advanced precision irrigation at a partners' meeting which will take...
Data Management
May 31, 2016
In LiDAR drone market, precision agriculture application is expected to grow at the highest CAGR. Precision agriculture involves the usage of drones to monitor soil erosion and crop maturity, mitigate the effects of frost, and monitor invasive plant species...
Data Management
May 31, 2016
All it took was a few drone flights over Nebraska cornfields for Mike Ritter, CEO of SLANTRANGE, to show farmers the value of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in agriculture using the technology developed by his company, writes Patrick C....
Digital Farming
May 31, 2016
Despite the outlook for low farm net income and a down farm economy, large American farmers have a surprisingly aggressive outlook toward buying and utilizing new technologies on their operations, with high hopes for potentially disruptive entrants. According to a...
Digital Farming
May 31, 2016
Bayer and the aerospace technology company Planetary Resources, based in Redmond, WA, have signed a memorandum of understanding about the development of applications and products based on satellite images. Bayer intends to purchase these data from Planetary Resources to...
Data Management
May 25, 2016
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) – or drones as they are popularly known – is now becoming relatively common, but Brechin, UK-based precision farming specialists SoilEssentials is taking the whole concept of data collection and use to...
