CNH Industrial and The Climate Corporation announced today a new partnership that will extend and develop a portfolio of data sharing capabilities to help farmers with real-time agronomic visualization and decision-making solutions. Case IH and New Holland Agriculture, the global...

On Monday, SVG Partners announced its THRIVE Top 50, an annual ranking of 50 leading agricultural technology companies exemplifying the best in agriculture technology around the globe. Recognizing companies across six different technology areas in agriculture – including biotechnology,...

Farm Dog and John Deere have launched a joint development project to develop variable rate spray technology for pest and disease management. The project is supported in part by a $900,000 grant from the Binational Industrial Research and Development...

I am a firm believer that data, especially map-based data, must be experienced. Seeing your data as a map in addition to a report or spreadsheet will always be of value as a step on the data literacy path....

Via DroneLife.com: I’ve been researching and writing about agriculture drone solutions since early 2012, writes SkyLogic Research CEO & Founder and drone industry analyst Colin Snow for DroneLife.com. I recently came across this OpEd on PrecisionAg.com by author Ben D. Johnson,...

Via The New York Times: For as long as he can remember, the only thing Matt Gies really wanted to do for a living was repair farm equipment, writes Noam Scheiber and Ben Casselman with The New York Times. But...

The Agricultural Broadband Coalition applauded bipartisan leaders in the House and Senate for introducing the Precision Agriculture Connectivity Act of 2018 on Thursday, a milestone piece of legislation that will help to revolutionize farming across the United States. The legislation,...

With each passing year, we have new experiences, incur a whole new set of challenges, and are taught a variety of lessons. The value in each of those lessons comes from our takeaways, then when we are faced with...

John Deere announces compatibility between its Generation 4 CommandCenter Displays and Ag Leader Technology SMS software via John Deere’s Ag Data Application Programming Toolkit (ADAPT) plug-in (Editor's Note: ADAPT is a Software Development Kit that consists of a data...

Bringing sustainability to scale and shaping the future of farming requires collaboration across the supply chain, starting with growers and their trusted partners. Growers rely heavily on their local retailer advisors for recommendations and services that will drive productivity,...

According to a recent press release, PrecisionHawk, Inc. announced it has raised a $75 million round of funding from a group of venture and strategic investors. This investment brings PrecisionHawk’s total funding to more than $100 million since...

Electrostatic spraying of crops is gaining momentum in South American countries such as Brazil. Electrostatic spraying of crops continues to become more popular in South America. This technique consists of inducing a static electric charge in...

The World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit returns to San Francisco on March 20-21, gathering over 600 major global agribusinesses, investors and ag tech start-ups to share the latest thinking and ground-breaking technologies that are transforming the agri-food sector, one of...

Blockchain technology has several uses in the agriculture industry: Documentation for certifications. One of the most aligned applications is providing documentation and authentication of records for crop or livestock certifications. For crop certifications, the use of a blockchain allows for...

Growers are very mindful of their data and the importance of owning the rights to it. Even still, many are willingly giving their data to corporations in order to improve their productivity, increase their yield, and make their farms...

AgGateway has announced its 2018 leadership, including the directors of its Strategic Board and Operational Management Board, and leaders of its councils and committees. The non-profit organization, which has more than 200 member companies, is moving into its 13th...

Brittany Lee of Waldo-based Florida Blue Farms stands in front of a young planting of blueberries. Photo by Frank Giles Brittany Lee is no stranger to land management, writes Frank Giles on GrowingProduce.com. She grew up around it,...

My friends, as many of you told me repeatedly throughout the last 12 months, 2017 was an interesting year in Ag Tech. We witnessed needle-moving mergers and acquisitions (Deere-Blue River; AGCO-Precision Planting; FieldReveal, etc.), intriguing product launches (SmartFirmer, Sentera's Phoenix...

The digital revolution is changing the way agriculture is done. Rapid population growth, changes in market demands, depleting agricultural land, and significant changes in climate patterns, including much more frequent extreme events — all these factors are pushing agriculture out...

Probably most professionals who deal with business data have at least heard the term “blockchain” bantered about as potentially the “next big thing” for a wide range of industries, agriculture included. But what is it? One could imagine a Jerry...