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...

“Agritech” at one time would have meant new equipment such as tractors and combine harvesters, but today it refers to the wave of digital innovation sweeping through agriculture, writes Lachlan Colquhoun on CDOTrends.com. So far, that has extended to Big...

After graduating from IIT-Madras, the first thing that Vivek Rajkumar did was to buy four acres near Thiruvananthapuram and start farming, according to an article on India's TheHinduBusinessLine.com. He was trying to cultivate paddy and grow banana. His neighbours...

Forbes magazine recently posted a list of the 25 most innovative ag-tech startups in 2018, which includes a few companies involved in greenhouse plant production, according to an article PrecisionAg.com sister website, GreenhouseGrower.com. To compile the list, Forbes editors surveyed...

Nutrien (formerly Crop Production Services) has officially rebranded its retail business to Nutrien Ag Solutions, aligning the company’s retail operations across the globe, according to a recent press release. The rebrand also features the roll out of an integrated digital...

One of the pioneers in deep learning, Dr. Yoshua Bengio of the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms presented “From Data to Decisions with Artificial Intelligence” at the 14th International Conference on Precision Agriculture in Montreal,...

TerrAvion, Inc., a large volume provider of aerial imagery to agriculture, has announced an integration to allow TerrAvion’s aerial imagery to be displayed inside of John Deere Operations Center. For growers, the Operations Center on MyJohnDeere.com is the central...

We live in an exciting time in agriculture. Not only is technology advancing rapidly, but the understanding and comprehension of technology and data is becoming easier to decode and decipher. By 2050, the population of Earth will amass 9.7...

One of the things I love most about my work is making periodic treks into the field – more often than not actual fields – to better understand the irrigation problems growers are facing. Many attribute the military truism, “No...

More than two-dozen definitions of precision agriculture have been identified through the years -- but which is the best and most definitive? That question has been posed to the membership of the International Society of Precision Agriculture (ISPA). "We have...

Bottom line instead of brand loyalty. Tractors and harvesters will look more like computers. Data will drive productivity. These are just a few of the realities that equipment manufacturers will have to contend with over the next 25 years, according...

One of my dad’s favorite, albeit borrowed, sayings was, “Act like you’ve been there before.” He was mostly referring to NFL players who showboat after scoring touchdowns (think Deion “Primetime” Sanders or Billy “White Shoes” Johnson). And forget about today’s...

Farmers Edge announced on Wednesday it will partner with Nufarm Limited in Australia to distribute its precision ag products and services, marking its first distribution alliance with a seed and crop protection company. Under the alliance, Nufarm channel partners in...

According to a press release issued by the company, Raven Industries was recognized today in the naming of South Dakota State University’s future precision agriculture facility. The Raven Precision Agriculture Center, to be located on the university’s main campus...

There is no doubt that advancements in genetics, precision agriculture, and innovative farming practices have all played an instrumental role in increasing field production. When examining field production in the U.S., it is clear the agriculture revolution that has...

IntelinAir has partnered with TerrAvion to deliver what it is calling a "best in class imagery solution" to joint customers in 2018. IntelinAir delivers mission-critical full-season actionable intelligence to help farmers make data-driven decisions to improve operational efficiency, yields,...