Market Watch
September 18, 2017
A new powerful chip technology has been introduced in China's national satellite navigation system to provide high-precision positioning, according to an article on EconomicTimes.IndiaTimes.com.
The chip, which will be attached to the satellites of BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, was unveiled...
Industry News
September 18, 2017
FieldReveal CEO Matt Hesse
Matt Hesse has been selected as the Chief Executive Officer of FieldReveal, a newly launched joint venture formed to deliver the next generation of precision agriculture tools and capabilities to agronomists, producers...
Market Watch
September 15, 2017
On a block in San Francisco’s SoMa district, near LinkedIn’s headquarters and dozens of startups, a 180-year-old company best-known for making tractors has a gleaming new Silicon Valley office, writes Adele Peters on FastCompany.com. But inside, instead of building...
Market Watch
September 15, 2017
SparkLabs Group, which claims to be the largest startup accelerator group in Asia, is stepping into agricultural tech with a new program created in partnership with the New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, according to an article posted...
Market Watch
September 15, 2017
The vision of having license-free community sensor networks for agricultural users has made a giant leap closer to reality. A team of collaborating companies connected a Vinduino agricultural sensor station to the eVineyard application via a long-range wireless data...
Data Management
September 14, 2017
An innovative online tool developed by a Purdue University engineering professor will allow farmers to process data collected from their fields without requiring them to share it with third-party companies.
“The Purdue Agricultural Data Engine (PADE) empowers farmers to derive...
Irrigation
September 13, 2017
I recently attended the Forbes AgTech Summit in Salinas, CA, where roughly 50 start-up companies originating from Silicon Valley and other high-tech regions of the country demonstrated their latest wares for the agriculture industry.
Many of these companies are developing...
Market Watch
September 13, 2017
Several months ago I wrote an article about curve compensation in planters and how these systems can help create more uniform stands and improved yield in fields with curves.
Another area where there is a lot of value with curve...
Market Watch
September 12, 2017
TechAccel, the Kansas City-based technology and venture development company, has announced it has awarded the first grant under its “Path to Commercialization” program at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, one of the world’s largest independent plant science institutes...
Data Management
September 12, 2017
The use of precision agriculture-based decision making to determine fertilizer rates and hybrid types and planting rates is becoming more common, according to an article on the PennState Extension website.
However, with the increased use of precision agriculture and the...
Imagery
September 12, 2017
As the growing season has progressed, aerial imagery has been part of the world record setting data-collection efforts for Terra, a single corn plant in a Farm Science Review field, writes Matt Reese of Ohio's Country Journal and Ohio...
Market Watch
September 12, 2017
As I write this, we are on the heels of catastrophic flooding in Houston due to Hurricane Harvey, and another major storm, Hurricane Irma, is churning its way through Florida and raising fears throughout the southeastern states.
The floodwaters have...
In-Field Technologies
September 11, 2017
One of Blue River's R&D See & Spray rigs hard at work in a cotton field outside of Lubbock, TX, in July 2017.
No, Blue River Co-founder and CEO Jorge Heraud has not been deposed —...
Market Watch
September 8, 2017
Since the advent of 20th century, electricity became the main source of invention in every major industry ranging from transportation and manufacturing to healthcare and communications, writes GS Naveen Kumar on BusinessWorld.in. Today, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is bringing the...
Connectivity
September 8, 2017
John Deere’s recent acquisition of Blue River Technology (BRT) isn’t just meaningful for farmers. It suggests that the very systems that agriculture uses to deliver crop protection products are undergoing another convulsive change.
Kiersten Stead of Monsanto Growth Ventures (MGV),...
Data Management
September 8, 2017
Today’s farm equipment today comes with more bells, whistles and blinking lights than Captain Nemo’s submarine, and most of those special features go unused, writes Raney Rapp on FarmTalkNewspaper.com.
The question is, what are those features and the data they...
Market Watch
September 8, 2017
At the PrecisionAg Innovation Series earlier this year, retailers and growers both expressed the need to gather data and the frustration they felt with the lack of services available to refine it into actionable insights.
The precision ag landscape is...
Guidance
September 7, 2017
DigiFarm VBN LLC, an agricultural technology company, announces it has signed a supplier agreement with AGCO Corp., a world-leading manufacturer and distributor of agricultural equipment solutions. The supplier agreement will offer DigiFarm VBN (Virtual Base Network) cellular hardware and...
Market Watch
September 7, 2017
Ireland’s top agricultural exports are beef and dairy products, writes Frank Vinluan on Xconomy.com. Arama Kukutai believes that in coming years, Ireland will send the United States and the rest of the world something different: innovative agricultural technologies that...
Drones | UAVs
September 7, 2017
The farming industry is on the cusp of a so-called ‘technological revolution,’ writes Sohini Bagchi on CXOToday.com. With drones, robots and intelligent monitoring systems now successfully being used in research and field trials, artificial intelligence, or machine learning, is...