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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 —...

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...

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),...

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...