Dr. Ed Barnes of Cotton Incorporated is at it again. A recent article posted on GrowingGeorgia.com describes the preliminary work that Barnes – Cotton Inc.’s senior director of Agricultural and Environmental Research – is conducting to test the viability of...

Farmobile today announced the launch of a new subscription service, Farmobile Pro. Farmobile Pro includes significant technology advancements including the only LTE aftermarket modem offering, four additional CAN channels and universal File Transfer. Universal File Transfer enables a fully connected...

Syngenta and Premier Crop Systems announce a commercial partnership to bring growers customized, variable-cost-per-bushel analysis maps — the first of this kind. “We’re providing growers research at the speed of farming,” said Aaron Deardorff, head of digital agriculture solutioat Syngenta....

The latest ag technology draws more 100,000 attendees to the annual AgQuip field days in Gunnedah, NSW, Australia. The annual AgQuip field days took place in Gunnedah, NSW on August 22-24. Being the largest agricultural field...

The Ohio State University's College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences will be hosting a free workshop for tech savvy soybean growers on Friday, Sept. 8, 2017, from 9 AM to 4 PM at Beck’s Hybrids in London, OH....

BASF and Proagrica have signed a development and operation agreement to bring one of the first farm management system interfaces to market. Growers will benefit as they will be able to connect BASF’s digital offer Maglis with different digital...

Last week AGCO hosted the Minnesota leg of its second annual summer U.S. Corn Belt Crop Tour at Nelson Farm, a corn and soybean operation on the outskirts of Hanska, MN, which is about an hour southeast of the...

Raven Industries announces the release of two new precision agriculture products: RS1 and CR7. The RS1 combines autosteer, GPS, and Slingshot into one intuitive, easy-to-use unit for navigation. The RS1’s incredible accuracy at both high and low speeds, along with...

Dr. Luck is part of a wave of young Extension professionals who are educating producers and service providers on best practices in precision agriculture.

Editor's Note: 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...

Four leading agribusinesses, Wheat Growers, Landus Cooperative, Central Valley Ag and WinField United, have signed a letter of intent to form a joint venture called FieldReveal to provide ag retailers with a proven, easy-to-use precision ag platform by the...

AMVAC Chemical Corp. has signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding with Trimble. The two companies are working toward an agreement that will grant Trimble global distribution rights for the patented SIMPAS prescriptive application equipment from AMVAC. The SIMPAS distribution...

Beck's today announced the release of several new tools available in their precision farming service, FARMserver, which enhances farmers' ability to utilize variable rate technology. For more than three years, Beck's precision farming team has been researching, developing, and...

In the last week, AgriHub, formed by farmers and consultants from Brazil, visited 10 Israeli agribusiness companies, including the Ministry of Agriculture, some ag tech startups, and the Volcani Institute, which is responsible for research in the country. It...

With new, specialized offerings from equipment manufacturers, such as Gregoire, there's been an uptick in opportunities for grape growers to mechanize practices, leading to more economical, efficient, and effective businesses. Precision technology moves at different speeds...

Agronomic professionals and technicians dealing with precision farming must understand the soils within the field before writing effective prescriptions.  A field provided with the same fertility, same amount of water, and same seed will still have production variability due...

To continue where my last article left off (which you can check out here), a precision ag company that specializes in benchmarking and analytics (or at least claims to) is now selling discount chemicals and other ag inputs. I...

Farm Dog, a pest and disease management platform for growers and agronomists, has entered into a Non-Funded Cooperative Agreement (NFCA) with the United States Department of Agriculture — Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS). The NFCA will support Farm Dog's ongoing efforts...

Acclerator, incubator, start-up, connectivity — the buzzwords of the digital age can be clear as, well, mud, writes Alex Sampson on WeeklyTimesNow.com.au. And when lumped under the umbrella term “agtech”, it’s no wonder farmers, investors and business leaders can be...

You would have to live under a rock to not have heard about farmers’ issues with dicamba this growing season. Arkansas banned the pesticide, Missouri temporarily banned and then changed the label, and complaints are skyrocketing in Indiana and...