The new Parrot Sequoia+ multispectral sensor. Tools dedicated to precision agriculture help farmers and agronomists optimize their crop's ROI and improve their daily productivity. The extreme precision and analysis enables farming experts to make well thought...

As wireless sensors become smaller, less expensive, and easier to use, farmers are beginning to deploy themin greater numbers to better detect the wide-ranging soil conditions across their fields. As any farmer can attest, agricultural fields...

Andrew Kappes, Agtegra Cooperative, Langford, SD; Agtegra Cooperative’s Andrew Kappes has two pieces of advice for precision farming-focused ag service providers: Take a team-first approach, and become that grower’s trusted advisor. Kappes, along with farmer-customer Joel Erickson...

Aymeric Barthès, Naïo Technologies Co-Founder and CEO. One to watch in the growing agribotics niche is Naïo Technologies out of Toulouse, France. The company has a trio of robots that have been fully commercialized, ranging in...

Most farmers in America don’t currently use farm management software (FMS) – but that could change, fast. Working from data collected from a survey of 1,490 farmers in January 2018, a new report estimates the U.S. market for farm management...

AgVend is pleased to announce the close of a $1.75m seed fundraising round led by Iowa native Drew Oetting at 8VC. This investment will enable the team to expand its pursuit of driving eCommerce in US agriculture across the...

We all remember that TV trivia show with good ole Jeff Foxworthy, right? He’d ask an average adult 5th grade level questions while also seeing if a few select 5th graders themselves could outsmart them. It made great TV...

PrecisionAg® Professional Accelerator is pleased to welcome Dr. Michael Boehlje as the full day lead instructor for day two of this summer's 2½ day professional development program. A Distinguished Professor at Purdue University's Department of Agricultural Economics, the fundamental focus...

InSiteCDM provides farmers with correlations that reveal the value of specific field practices while pinpointing weak points in their programs to help get the most out of their crops. Bruce Baier is another deeply experienced precision...

Disclaimer: I have never been a crop scout. My intolerance for insects insinuating themselves in places that are competing for the sweat rolling down the back and pant legs would not allow for that career path. But my respect for...

The agricultural fair circuit in Brazil has begun and the central theme thus far has been digital agriculture. With an emphasis on education and research, agricultural fairs are creating paths and examples of how farmers can be inserted into...

Semtech Corporation, a leading supplier of high performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms, announced that Teralytic, a manufacturer of wireless soil sensors, implemented LoRa devices and wireless radio frequency technology (LoRa Technology) in its wireless sensor to detect nitrogen, phosphate...

Farmers Business Network (FBN) today announced its international expansion into Canada for the 2018 growing season, and the acquisition of Yorkton Distributors in Yorkton, Saskatchewan. Canadian farmers can now take advantage of the rapidly growing FBN network providing growers...

I posed a question in a twitter poll in order to raise awareness of how measurements of biomass from remote sensing have major limitations in a soil applied variable-rate fertilizer program. 324 voters participated. The correct answer? D. There is...

Pix4D is announcing Pix4Dfields, software that the company claims is the first fully dedicated product to give users fast and accurate maps while in the field, with a simple yet powerful interface fully dedicated to agriculture. When Pix4D first decided to...

Sentera today announced the immediate availability of the Sentera AGX710 gimbaled precision agriculture sensor with plug-and-play integration for DJI's industry leading Matrice 200 Series industrial drones. The AGX710 sensor delivers exceptional crop health insights and enables ag professionals to...

The Accelerating Precision to Decision Agriculture (P2D) project is supported by funding from the Australian Government's Department of Agriculture and Water Resources as part of its Rural R&D for Profit program. Led by CRDC, the P2D project involves all...

Gorham If only software from precision agriculture companies was more like Facebook or Google, no one in North America would be talking about how reluctant farmers are to use it. Sid Gorham, chief executive and co-founder of...

Southern States cooperative announces the appointment of a new precision ag product line leader in Mike DiPaola. DiPaola comes from FarmWizard where he served as director of business development. “Southern States has built its name by helping farmers make sound...

Syngenta and Strider have announced that Syngenta has entered into a binding agreement to acquire Strider, a Brazilian agtech company focused on operational management solutions for farms. Completion of the transaction is subject to clearance by the relevant merger-control authorities....