Understory today announced that it received a patent for its mechanical strain-based weather sensor, a key component in its weather station technology. “To date, weather infrastructure has been expensive, with most costs going to ongoing maintenance and recalibration,” said Alex...

Farmers need to be open to allowing select companies that interest them to have an inside look at their operation, try a new product, and provide feedback for further development. Water is essential for agriculture. While...

The Board of Directors of Agtegra Cooperative presented a $500,000 pledge to South Dakota State University for the Precision Ag Building Project at SDSU. Pictured from left to right: Dr. Don Marshall, Interim Dean, College...

Interdependency is defined as the quality or condition of being mutually reliant on each other. I’m not a huge sports fan but I do enjoy studying team sports. Why? Because they’re great examples of leadership and interdependency. In fact while...

It’s fascinating to see how modern technology has helped us increase our agricultural productivity in areas not otherwise suited for our higher value crops. When viewing the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles and southwest Kansas in Google Earth (see below),...

DTN has announced a partnership today at the National Farm Machinery Show with Agronomic Technology Corp (ATC), a Yara International Company and the leader in nitrogen modeling. Through the partnership, DTN, an independent source of insight and analysis, and...

Syngenta has acquired FarmShots, Inc., a North Carolina-based innovator of high-resolution satellite imagery that detects plant health by analyzing absorbed light from field images. This service was developed to help farmers, agronomists and retailers quickly and accurately spot field issues...

The advancement of machine learning applications for agriculture has come at the right time to offer a different approach comparatively to the traditional ways for disease detection. Photo credit: Pexels With the development of agricultural technologies,...

Today Winnipeg-based FMIS giant Farmers Edge announced a partnership around crop insurance with Zurich-based PartnerRE. Although a bit short on specifics at the moment, the PartnerRE-issued press release announcing the deal explains that "in this partnership, Farmers Edge and PartnerRe...

Hortau today announced a strategic partnership with Agrian Inc. to deliver an expansive precision irrigation service for commercial agriculture. "With this partnership, Agrian will be able to offer additional services in precision irrigation to their partners," Hortau Vice President of...

At the trial farm in Tamil Nadu, eight vegetable crops have been farmed using the SCORRES precision irrigation system. A cloud-based, micro-irrigation system tested on a farm in India has cut water use by up to...

Industry innovators in agriculture, food, and information technology are set to mix it up again at this year’s Forbes Mixing Bowl NYC event to be held March 22 at Forbes on Fifth in New York City. The unique interactive...

March 20th is the first day of spring, making spring much closer than even I expected. On the farm I grew up on in Minnesota there were considerable fears when it comes to this time of year. Of course,...

(Article Notes: This monthly column takes some crazy sounding ideas and applies them to the field of Ag Tech. The purpose of this is purely entertainment, but hey, if we can spread ideas or ignite imaginations, how awesome is...

AgGateway's ADAPT Framework, which is designed to make it easy for various hardware and software systems that growers use in their businesses to "talk to each other", now has a new tool to help developers: the ADAPT ISO Plugin....

At right, Roger DuMond of Kova Fertilizer shares experience, and a few laughs, with third-year intern Brandon Butz. “Sharing ideas with our younger employees is a joy, and we learn a lot this way,” says...

I’ve seen a lot of ideas and met a lot of people in the agtech world. There have been great achievements but also inevitable failures. There have been good times, bad times, and everything-in-between times, all of which bring...

UPDATED 2.5.18, 2:10 PM Proagrica has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of SST Software, including Raven’s ownership stake. Based in London, Proagrica is a dominant agriculture player in Australia and the UK, and has a significant footprint in Europe...

"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” -Vince Lombardi Those words of wisdom could easily apply to the off-season blueprint followed by Dodge City, KS-based agronomy provider Servi-Tech, a 200-plus employee outfit that annually services...

Is Farmers Business Network (FBN) — and its admittedly slick crop inputs e-commerce platform, FBN Direct — really the Big Bad Boogie Man some have made it out to be? That, dear reader, we’ll leave up to you to decide. AgVend...