Last week I attended the fourth South American Congress of Precision Agriculture and Precision Machinery (IV APSUL America 2017). The event was held in Não-Me-Toque, a small city in Rio Grande do Sul, which is Brazil's southernmost state. The...

According to an AgPR news release, FieldAlytics is now available in Canada through FieldAlytics Solutions Canada, Inc. This new company is the exclusive marketing organization for the EFC Systems, Inc.’s FieldAlytics suite of precision agriculture and field data management tools...

This week AgDNA has launched a product it says has the ability to analyze profit spatially throughout a field. The new tool is called Pixel Profit and it’s designed to automatically analyze a grower’s operation and show the profit...

Ag retail-serviced acres of variable rate technology (VRT), cover crops, rotational soil testing, and other phosphorus-saving strategies continue to grow in the Sandusky River Watershed and the Great Lakes Basin, according to an article on CropLife.com. Sixty-two Great Lakes...

Joel Wipperfurth talks about the challenges of compatibility and collaboration in ag technology, and some of the key findings that the the company’s Answer Plot program is delivering for farmer customers.

These photos highlight the work of a creative farmer in Mato Grasso, Brazil, who took advantage of old planters (above) and modified some parts and added meters, spending less than half the price of a...

The WinField United Innovation Center — a new epicenter of research that will help give farmers more and better tools to grow crops more sustainably — opened today in River Falls, WI. The 55,000-square-foot facility replaces the 6,000 square-foot WinField...

(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...

Ready or not, farming as we know it is changing – out of necessity. Lack of adequate labor, along with an urgent need to feed a constantly growing global population, is forcing more producers to innovate. To help growers...

The announcement of a three-year collaboration between one of Australia’s most well-known agriculture technology providers, Precision Agriculture, and Federation University will create pathways to make digital data more easily accessible, writes Gregor Heard on FarmOnline.com.au. Chief executive at Precision Agriculture...

The Mumbai-based company is in talks with the Indian government seeking approval to make drones a part of farming methods, says Pawan Goenka, managing director, M&M in an article by Swaraj Baggonkar on MoneyControl.com. Remote-operated unmanned aerial vehicles, better known...

Deepfield Robotics is preparing to showcase its robotics and automation technologies for the agriculture market at the Agrilevante event, in Italy, according to an article on RoboticsandAutomationNews.com. The company is a startup established by industrial giant Bosch, and has a...

Chernovetskyi Investment Group (CIG) has reached an agreement on investment into Kray Technologies company, which manufactures Kray Protection industrial robotic cargo UAVs (drones) for spraying with plant protection products and regulators of crop yield growth, according to an article...

Since our acquisition of Terra Bella, and the SkySat constellation of seven satellites, we’ve been focused on making this high-resolution data accessible and available via our cloud-based data infrastructure. After four months of heavy lifting from our spacecraft, data...

Bayer said it was unable to propose the sale of any digital farming assets to allay EU concerns about its planned $66 billion takeover of Monsanto, according to an article on Reuters.com. The European Commission last month started an in-depth...

In line with a familiar growth trajectory, Agrian Inc. is moving into Australia with a physical support and sales presence to meet new market opportunities. Australia’s ag industry has always embraced new technology and innovation, and this recent extension...

When John Deere acquired Blue River Technologies (BRT) recently, BRT’s See & Spray technology received plenty of play. Yet many vegetable growers already were familiar with the Lettuce Bot, the company’s lettuce-thinning technology, writes Jim Sulecki on GrowingProduce.com. And there...

Ag data from tractors, combines, planters, and other farm machinery present a huge opportunity for growers to manage their operations more efficiently, but only if all the sources of that data can communicate. Syngenta is helping to lead a...

Despite its superpower status as a producer and exporter of agricultural goods and services, up until now Australia has had only one accelerator program – SproutX – that has focused on AgTech, writes Aimee Chanthadavong on InnovationAUS.com. Until now that...

Krishna Kumar created AgTech startup, CropIn Technology in 2010, along with co-founders Kunal Prasad and Chittranjan Jena. The trio went on to develop a state of the art, innovative solutions system to address several pain points of various stakeholders...