Precision agriculture management requires understanding soil at increasingly finer scales. Conventional soil sampling and laboratory analyses often lack this granularity and can be time consuming and expensive. Remote soil sensing overcomes these shortcomings. Through its collection of spatial data...

Bayer's xarvio made quite the splash at Agritechnica 2017 in Hannover, Germany, back in November. Germany’s Bayer plans to sell its digital farming business to BASF as part of changes to concessions it has offered to...

Sentera announces the availability of high-fidelity crop stand, weed pressure mapping, spot scouting maps, and free local image stitching within the Sentera FieldAgent platform. These valuable, field-edge tools are available today to all FieldAgent customers using high-resolution crop imagery....

Taylor Farms, a leading producer of value-added healthy fresh foods, and Plug and Play, the world’s largest global innovation platform and startup accelerator, announced a strategic partnership focused on the advancement of technology within the food and agriculture industries. Taylor...

For Harvest CROO Robotics’ automated strawberry harvester, the picking wheel is the heart of technology with cameras to identify ripe berries and clamps to pick them. Photo courtesy of Harvest CROO Robotics While the immigration debate...

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...