With aging farmers, tighter immigration laws, and jobs nobody wants,  the agricultural industry is facing challenges that technology and robotics can solve, writes Denham Sadler at Information Age. And now is the time for investors and farmers to get...

Editor's note: Part Three of this three-part series on agricultural spraying drones features Rantizo. Be sure to also check out Part One (ADAMA/Tactical Robotics) and Part Two (Bayer CropScience). Drone technology in agriculture has moved rapidly though the technology hype...

It's no longer science fiction. Aussie farmers are increasingly turning to tech for help in the global competition to increase production efficiency, according to Farm Weekly. A new generation of innovative thinkers is fast-tracking that progress through the national SproutX...

Robot farming startup Iron Ox has announced that it’s selling robot-reared leafy greens in a single location in California, The Verge reports. Iron Ox is one of a number of companies trying to automate the human-intensive work of agriculture. It...

Editor's note: Part Two of this three-part series on agricultural spraying drones features Bayer CropScience. Be sure to also check out Part One (ADAMA/Tactical Robotics) and Part Three (Rantizo). Drone technology in agriculture has moved rapidly though the technology hype...

Meister Media Worldwide and its Global Precision Initiative are pleased to announce the expansion of the long-standing website PrecisionAg.com – among the first media sites in the world devoted exclusively to agricultural technology – as a global digital source...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E45hQxGsbXY&w=560&h=315 Gedera, Israel area-based Tevel Aerobotics Technologies says it has come up with an automated drone that can do the labor-intensive fruit-picking quickly and efficiently, taking over from humans in the orchards and greenhouses, writes Federico Maccioni for TimesofIsrael.com. “There is...

South African agri-tech startup Aerobotics, which launched a batch of new products late last year, expanded its Series A funding round to US $4 million last month and has now launched Aeroview InField, a brand new problem detection app...

Editor's note: Part One of this three-part series on agricultural spraying drones features ADAMA/Tactical Robotics. Be sure to also check out Part Two (Bayer CropScience) and Part Three (Rantizo). Drone technology in agriculture has moved rapidly though the technology hype...

The VISION Conference has become established as the definitive precision agriculture and digital farming conference for North America. Pictured: Meister Media Worldwide Group Editor Paul Schrimpf moderates a session at the 2019 VISION Conference in...

A Cape Town, South Africa agri-tech start-up company held a post-harvest vineyard management workshop in Paarl to educate farmers and the agricultural industry on how to use the latest innovations in precision agriculture, reports Mthuthuzeli Ntseku for Independent Online. Aerobotics...

A field robotics start-up based on technology created by the University of Sydney's Australian Centre for Field Robotics has received a $6.5 million investment, thanks to Australia's longest running research commercialization fund, Uniseed. Founded by University of Sydney Professor of Robotics...

Roboticists are creating crop-specific machines to harvest fruits and veggies, reports Matt Simon for Wired. There’s the robot that harvests lettuce with a knife made of water. Now comes the apple-picking robot, a metallic farmer that just graduated from...

Leading global crop protection company ADAMA Ltd. has partnered with Tactical Robotics Ltd., an innovative Israeli aerospace company, in a joint feasibility study for a High-Payload, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for aerial spraying. Tactical Robotics has developed the Cormorant, a...

Mauricio Nicocelli Netto and his colleagues from IMAmt got a first-hand look at the Swarmbot 5, which started tests this week all over Australia. In the last week of February, me and two colleagues from Brazil's...

The end of the world is coming … eventually. Shortly before his death last year, famed physicist Stephen Hawking left us with several rather grim predictions for the future of Earth and life on it. At the top of...

While the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to transform practically every aspect of our existence, the agriculture sector is only now starting to really benefit from technologies like sensors, according to an article on Nanalyze.com. Farmers are typically old-school...

“Smart farming,” which utilizes cutting-edge robotics and artificial intelligence, could hold the key to an agricultural resurgence in a nation of graying farmers and a general population reluctant to toil in the soil, according to an article by The...

Agriculture, one of the world’s oldest vocations, is also one that continues to reinvent itself with new technology, according to an article on AgDaily.com. From the introduction of the steel plow to automated tractors to modern fertilizer applications, technology...

Ah yes, time again for our annual click-collecting effort here on PrecisionAg.com, otherwise known as our (quasi) annual list of companies that we think will make news in precision farming circles in 2019. Our 2018 entry in the series...