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....

Earth Observing System (EOS), a Menlo Park based startup, announces the release of a unique cloud-based platform called EOS Crop Monitoring, which provides solutions for input suppliers, farmers, commodity traders, crop insurance companies, and all members of the agriculture...

The launch of Western Australia's first ag-tech accelerator program has ushered in a new era for agricultural innovation, writes Cally Dupe on the The West Australian website. Nine ag-tech companies, ranging from small to medium size enterprises, were almost midway...

Understory today announced an international expansion and strategic collaboration with Monsanto. Monsanto’s use of Understory’s weather network is providing on-the-ground insights into localized weather in Argentina to drive growers’ decisions and optimize high value operations, the two companies claim...

Sentera announces the general release of its RTK GPS precision positioning module for the PHX Pro fixed-wing drone. The module delivers true L1/L2, multi-constellation RTK to the PHX Pro. Sentera's RTK solution offers survey, agriculture, and mapping customers sub-5cm and...

Meister Media Worldwide, producer of innovation events for agricultural markets around the globe in addition to its leading print, digital, data and business services for specialty agricultural markets, has announced a joint venture with a leading events company as...

Sam Dingle demonstrates one of the data charts that IFV’s FruitVision system provides. (Photo: Christina Herrick) Innovation is a part of Kiwi lifestyle, GrowingProduce.com's Christina Herrick writes in her wrap up coverage of the International Fruit...

Robots – are they just a thing of the future? Many in the agriculture sector agree that the industry is heading in the direction of having more technology on the farm, which could even include robots. In fact, there...

Automation has been at the forefront of our minds for decades, if not centuries. Whether we’re talking about those who worked in flour mills or those who dealt with windmills, automated processes have always been on inventors’ minds. While...

Choosing the right college is a process. It’s one that I’m just now embarking on with my teenage daughter. Long before she’ll find herself inundated with acceptance letters (or at least I hope so), she’ll need to visit campuses,...

SST Software today announced releases of upgrade versions of their flagship desktop software and iOS mobile application. Development teams have taken user feedback and incorporated new features and performance enhancements that will keep both of these agriculture data collection and...

Walmart is applying for a range of patents using drones to automate farming. The move could support its grocery business and give the giant greater control over its supply chain, according to a report on CBInsights.com. As Walmart goes head...

Corteva Agriscience, Agriculture Division of DowDuPont, through its software business, Granular, announced today with Planet – an integrated aerospace and data analytics company – a significantly expanded global partnership to deliver digital agriculture software solutions for farmers. The three-year agreement...

What do trees, drones, and minefields all have in common? Precision aerial planting. A concept first introduced in the 1930’s (possibly as early as 1926) to originally reseed a mountain in Honolulu, planting via an airplane has captured our imagination...

AgGateway has submitted its proposed irrigation data exchange standard to the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE), a major achievement in precision agriculture to help growers manage data from their irrigation management systems. The standard is the result...

FreeWave Technologies today announced the general availability of the WAVECONTACT WC30i-AXIS Wireless Angle Sensor. This sensor measures thief hatch states (closed, cracked, open) and movement of pump jacks. As the only Class I, Div 1 wireless angle sensor on...