Topcon Opus A6 (top) and A8 Consoles. Topcon Agriculture has added industry-leading ISOBUS universal terminal and task controller functionality to the Opus A6 and A8 consoles. The industry standard universal terminal provides compatibility with a wide range...

In the past few months there has been a flurry of acquisitions of agtech startups by major players in the industry. Let’s look at a short and hardly complete list of a few of these recent acquisitions: Adapt-N –...

AgGateway's Grain Traceability Proof of Concept demo at Wilson Farms, Olney, IL, Oct. 26, 2017. We talk about closed-loop systems quite a bit in modern production agriculture. Having a closed-loop, or completely self-contained, system is ideal...

Jason Tatge, CEO, Farmobile. All over the country, in ag communities large and small, farmers are reporting crop damage, neighbors are fighting, lawsuits and damage complaints are being filed, and the government is scrambling to step...

Farmer’s Business Network, Inc. is modernizing the way farmers shop with a new e-commerce platform designed and engineered exclusively for agricultural inputs. FBN members can now search for, compare, and buy thousands of input products online. The site, which...

DJI showcased new hardware and software advancements that make it easier for businesses across multiple industries to incorporate drones into their daily operations at its AirWorks user conference in Denver today. During the keynote presentation, DJI demonstrated its new FlightHub...

As the harvest season comes to a close, a quick look at Twitter gives us some insights into how things went. Many had great shots of harvesters and grain carts with the next generation driving them, which was amazing...

Sentera announced today availability of gimbaled Double 4k and Quad sensors for the popular DJI Inspire 2 drone. Sentera's swappable precision crop health sensors paired with the Inspire 2 offers agronomists, crop consultants, and growers an economical way to...

Farmobile today announced a strategic partnership with AmTrust Agriculture Insurance Services, a subsidiary of AmTrust Financial, Inc., a multinational property and casualty insurer specializing in coverage for small business. The agreement, effective immediately, will allow the two companies to...

So busy were we at PrecisionAg® in staying on top of this fast-changing industry that we nearly lost sight of an important milestone. Twenty years ago the first edition of PrecisionAg Illustrated – forebear to today’s PrecisionAg Professional and...

Yara International completed the acquisition of Agronomic Technology Corp (ATC), which operates Adapt-N, a leading nitrogen recommendation platform in the US that improves farmer profitability and agricultural sustainability. In line with Yara’s strategy to accelerate its investments in digital farming,...

Ceres Imaging, which specializes in spectral imaging technology to help farmers increase yields by more efficiently applying water and fertilizer, announced it has raised $2.5 million in Series A financing from Romulus Capital. Ceres Imaging uses aerial imagery and spectral...

In recent years, producers in Mato Grosso have experienced a stagnation of productivity and increased production costs, limiting crop production and thus tightening their overall margins. With growing demand for the commodities of Mato Grosso, this productive sector finds...

President Trump recently announced the new Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Integration Pilot Program to accelerate the integration of UAS into our nation’s busy airspace and to spur innovation, according to a press release sent out by FAA this afternoon. The...

The Kokoda Track — a 60-mile path in Papua New Guinea — offered plenty of opportunities to learn about local agriculture. I recently spent two weeks in the Central Highlands area of Papua New Guinea (PNG)...

Agriculture is big business in Brazil, which is the fifth largest country in the world. It is a nation with a very well developed and professional farming sector and a number of large operators, according to a press release...

Staying on top of the hundreds of product and service providers in precision agriculture and ag-tech companies can be difficult — until now. With the "Guide to Precision Agriculture and Ag-Tech Companies" compiled by the editors of Meister Media Worldwide, you’ll...

Ag tech company Farmobile has reaped a substantial Series B funding round that positions the firm to rapidly accelerate across the world, reports Bobby Burch on StartlandNews.com. The Overland Park, KS-based company announced Friday that it raised $18.1 million to...

Come December, tur growers in Karnataka can look forward to the prospect of having a better visibility on the price trend of the red gram at least for the next six months, which could help them take an informed...

Trimble has introduced the Trimble GFX-750 display system for agriculture applications. The display system comes with the simple-to-install, roof-mounted NAV-900 guidance controller featuring Trimble's most advanced multi-constellation GNSS receiver. The satellite coverage provides farmers with more robust signal availability...