Market Watch
May 7, 2018
Maurcio Nicocelli Netto's main purpose of visiting the Canton Fair in China's Guangzhou City was to learn about new agricultural technology and how it might be used in Brazil.
Last month I visited China to learn...
Industry News
May 7, 2018
It’s reportedly been a busy spring down at The Climate Corporation offices in Creve Coeur, MO, a tony bedroom community on the outer rings of the St. Louis metropolitan area.
The company many know as Monsanto’s ag tech-focused little brother...
Industry News
May 4, 2018
Jason Tatge, Farmobile CEO, shows us the latest Farmobile PUC for the 2018 growing season, at Commodity Classic 2017 in Decatur, IL.
Farmobile today announced that the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska has...
Imagery
May 3, 2018
Paramount Reports, a reporting platform developed by Ag Developer, was built to display data collected on the agX Platform in a clear and concise format that would best facilitate communication between trusted advisors and growers. Satellite imagery has now...
Industry News
May 3, 2018
Bushel, a product of Myriad Mobile, an enterprise software technology company focused on mobile and web applications, today announced the growth of its Bushel mobile grain platform feature set with the inclusion of eSignature (eSign) capabilities.
The addition of eSign...
Market Watch
May 3, 2018
Potatoes may, in many ways, be the perfect candidate for precision agriculture, according to an article on PotatoPro.com.
They’re a high-volume, high-value and high-input crop and the industry has already invested more than other sectors in soil and drainage mapping,...
Market Watch
May 2, 2018
The University of California’s Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources is among the event partners and presenting sponsors for The Mixing Bowl’s FOOD IT forum. Photo courtesy of The Mixing Bowl
The challenges that come with...
Industry News
May 1, 2018
Cropstream, a new communication network built for agriculture, announces the release of a free crop registry app that allows growers to easily share their crop trait information with other farmers, agronomists and applicators right from their computer browser. Additionally,...
Data Management
May 1, 2018
AgGateway and USDA have forged an agreement to work together on data projects to benefit American farmers in the transition to digital agriculture. The current agreement will consist of a series of efforts over the next 20 months; all...
Connectivity
May 1, 2018
Agriculture today has been exploding with new advancements in technology, posing the future for a farm filled with data and information. Decoding and understanding this data through analysis and agronomics is key for success and finding the opportunities in...
Analytics
May 1, 2018
Farmers Edge released a comprehensive R&D roadmap outlining its product enhancement and innovation plans through to 2019, according to a press release issued by the company.
After introducing 19 new tools this year, Farmers Edge aims to release over 90...
Analytics
May 1, 2018
The agricultural industry is in the midst of a smart farming evolution, and the Internet of Things (IoT) era has the potential to dramatically improve farming practices. Today, CropX, an ag analytics innovator, unveiled its latest soil intelligence platform, a powerful...
Connectivity
April 30, 2018
In 1936, deep in the throes of the Great Depression, the federal government moved forward with an initiative that would eventually modernize every home in rural America: the Rural Electrification Act (REA).
Driven by the federal government, money began to...
Market Watch
April 30, 2018
Juan Sebastián Restrepo grows hydrangeas on Blue Mountain, a 5-acre farm on a hillside in Colombia. While its production process is fully manual, the farm would benefit greatly by adding IOT-based soil and plant sensors.
As...
Digital Farming
April 27, 2018
Digital solutions such as the xarvio Field Manager help growers to run their farms as efficient as possible. That cut costs and benefits the environment.
Bayer has launched its xarvio Field Manager in five countries –...
Digital Farming
April 27, 2018
I was recently asked, “Where is imagery in digital farming?” Imagery, especially from satellites and increasingly from drones, is often proposed or inferred as the core functionality of digital farming. Why else would almost every digital farming discussion center...
Analytics
April 26, 2018
The five finalist teams for the 2018 Syngenta Crop Challenge in Analytics during the award ceremony at the 2018 INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics & Operations Research in Baltimore, MD.
Last week I attended the 2018...
Analytics
April 24, 2018
Climate FieldView customers can now enjoy seamless integration of Sentera FieldAgent on-field sensor and analytics products with FieldView, as well as automatic synchronization of field boundary and other user information between platforms.
The partnership between Sentera and The Climate Corp....
Connectivity
April 24, 2018
With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), we are now seeing farmers use more wireless technologies to increase the quality and efficiency of production to achieve higher yields. IoT has opened the door for engineers to develop...
Industry News
April 24, 2018
Next Instruments is an Australian manufacturer of instrumentation for the grains and food industries. Over the last 5 years Next Instruments has been at the forefront of precision agriculture technology with the development of the CropScan 3000H On Combine...