It's not every day that this reporter walks into the office of a precision ag dealer, sits across from the owner at his component-strewn desk, and the first words spoken are, “I’m not sure what you’re going to get...

"Valley Agronomics, out in the Pacific Northwest … there’s something about those guys, they just get it …” Those words, in an email I had received some forgettable winter morning after soliciting an industry contact for recommendations on up-and-coming...

Iowa agriculture is now worth more than $15 billion according to the USDA, writes Jake Slobe on ClayandMilk.com. For entrepreneurs and investors willing to look outside of Silicon Valley, Iowa’s agricultural technology — often called “agtech” — ecosystem offers valuable...

The House earlier this week approved a Farm Bureau-supported measure that will help close rural America’s digital divide. The Precision Agriculture Connectivity Act of 2018 (H.R. 4881) would create a task force to bring together public and private stakeholders...

  InfoAg 2018 - Union Station, St. Louis, MO. InfoAg, precision farming’s annual mid-summer blowout, is about a week in the rearview as I type this, a hazy Midwestern summer morning underway here in Ohio. Seven days later,...

Aeris, a technology provider in the Internet of Things (IoT) space, said today it is collaborating with Ranch Systems of Novato, CA, to help farmers and businesses improve their sustainable water management, food production and environmental monitoring. Aeris is...

The agricultural community has spent several years synthesizing an operational description for digital farming. In several cases, there have also been solutions put forth all claiming to be digital farming, but now, more than ever, there is as much...

Proagrica has announced it will be bringing together its F4F, DBT and SST Software businesses under the Proagrica brand. This comprehensive move will integrate the varied offerings from Proagrica, and in turn deliver more connected solutions for customers. “This marks a...

The world of technology-based solutions has been increasingly flooded with buzzwords like “analytics”, “big data”, and “Internet of Things”. In the past few years, the availability of cost-effective, large-scale cloud computing and open-source scientific programming libraries has led to...

We here at PrecisionAg.com and PrecisionAg Professional recently had the opportunity to attend the 2018 Conservation Technology Information Center's annual Conservation In Action Tour, which took place in various locations around the Chesapeake Bay region in Maryland, July 10-11. Here...

Seeding and planting technology innovator Clean Seed has signed an agreement to strategically acquire U.S. planting equipment manufacturer Harvest International, uniting the two family-run companies. Executives from both companies will be discussing the partnership and what it means for...

Jason Tatge, Farmobile CEO, shows us the latest Farmobile PUC for the 2018 growing season, at Commodity Classic 2017 in Decatur, IL. Busy times these days out in Leawood, KS, for ag data startup Farmobile, as...

Nutrien announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Agrible for total consideration of $63 million, according to a press release issued by Nutrien. Agrible is a digital agriculture company with an advanced platform and product...

Farmobile today announced an agreement to acquire the assets of Prime Meridian, a precision agriculture data management company based in Nevada, MO. The acquisition will aid in the creation of a new data stewardship offering, Farmobile DataServices, which will help...

Take a walk into the Suggs Laboratory for Precision Agriculture and Machine Systems and it’s hard not to be impressed, writes Rebecca Nagy on North Carolina State University's Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering (BAE) website. Named after Charlie...

The vegetable production areas of the Central Coast of California have lifted vegetable cultivation to a high art, writes Richard Smith on GrowingProduce.com. Except for a 4-inch wide band around the seedline, growers cultivate the entire bed. That uncultivated band...

AgJunction Inc., a leader in advanced guidance and autosteering, has settled a patent infringement lawsuit it filed against Raven Industries, Inc. in January of this year. The suit alleged Raven products violated three AgJunction patents related to automated mechanical...

Respondents to a CropLife® magazine survey on precision agriculture programs reveal confidence in value delivered and a strong internal commitment to the business ... but challenges remain. In the overall agriculture market, the rhetoric surrounding emerging...

Raven Industries, Inc. has announced several new services available on the Slingshot and Viper 4 platforms: Job Generator and Job Sync. A new tool, called Job Generator, helps increase efficiency and reduce the risk of costly mistakes. Users are now...

AgIntegrated, Inc. (AGI), a leader in precision ag data integration and software development, and Satshot, a leader and pioneer in agriculture remote sensing software and solutions for over 24 years, have come to an agreement for AGI to acquire an...