One company in North Dakota owns 42,000 acres of prime farmland, 34 grain elevators, a grain-trading firm, and three company towns with dozens of smaller company-owned businesses. Never heard of it? Probably because the year is 1893. Bonanza farms, as it...

MicaSense Atlas is now integrated with Pix4D desktop software. This exciting partnership is designed to offer MicaSense customers the power of desktop processing, as well as the flexibility of MicaSense Atlas. “Our customers value Atlas as an analytics and collaboration platform,”...

Premier Crop Systems’ Enhanced Learning Blocks are used to create randomized, replicated trials on a grower’s field. (For purpose of illustration only, image not to scale.) Long an industry leader in developing digital tools that enable...

John Deere and Granular announced today a product development and co-marketing agreement that gives John Deere customers more tools to measure and improve their financial performance. Under the terms of the agreement, the two companies will work to further integrate...

Senet, a provider of global connectivity and network management for the Internet of Things, and Sensoterra BV, a provider of low-cost, wireless soil moisture measurement sensors, today announced a multi-year partnership to operate Sensoterra’s soil moisture system on Senet’s...

AGCO and The Climate Corp. announced today that a definitive agreement has been signed for AGCO to acquire the Precision Planting equipment business. (RELATED: Ohio Precision Planting Dealer Comments on Possible Merger Partners)  “Precision Planting is a strong business that plays...

Trimble and CNH Industrial are enabling wireless connectivity between Trimble Ag Software and Case IH Advanced Farming Systems Connect and New Holland Precision Land Management Connect telematics platforms in North America. Trimble and CNH Industrial, a...

EFC Systems, Inc. has announced a new integration between its FieldAlytics product and Geosys Bridge API for direct delivery of in-season and historical imagery. With this functionality now in release, FieldAlytics users can leverage field-level satellite imagery layers and...

Digital farming company Prospera has announced a $15 million Series B funding round. Qualcomm Ventures, the investment arm of Qualcomm Incorporated, has led the round, which was joined by Cisco Investments, ICV, and existing investor Bessemer Venture Partners. It...

Region, in red, infested with resistant weeds in Brazil (Embrapa, 2015). The occurrence of weeds in agricultural fields of grain and fiber production has caused losses to farmers for a long time. With the introduction of...

Farm Dog, the leading pest and disease management platform for growers and agronomists, has completed the second stage of its integration with John Deere Operations Center. This milestone helps streamline growers' adoption of integrated pest management (IPM) for their...

Lindsay Corp. has  announced the appointment of Timothy Hassinger as president and CEO and a member of its board of directors, effective October 16, 2017. Hassinger will succeed President and CEO Rick Parod, who previously announced he is retiring...

PrecisionAg Institute is pleased to announce its Awards of Excellence winners for 2017. Honorees of this year’s prestigious award are recognized for their exceptional commitment to precision agriculture. They have passionately devoted their careers to the industry and set...

When considering whether to integrate cover crops and interseeding in a farming or consulting strategy, there are three key steps that may help farmers and their trusted advisors in this process. As growers continue to search for...

EFC Systems is pleased to announce an expanded integration between its FieldAlytics product and Agronomic Technology Corp’s Adapt-N nitrogen recommendations and monitoring system. With this functionality now in mass release, FieldAlytics users have the ability to leverage field data already...

Benchmarking has become a buzzword in precision agriculture recently and before we get too excited with all of the profound insight it’s going to bestow upon us, let’s take a step back and really look at where this benchmarking...

It is mid-July, which, for the Australian cotton industry, means that picking is still going on for some growers. A different group of growers, however, is getting ready to start planting cotton again in three weeks time, and the...

Tim Norris, Ag Info Tech A few weeks ago I took a quick trip south down I-71 to Central Ohio (for you non-Buckeyes, I-71 runs North-South between Ohio’s three major cities) to visit with Ag Info...

Fully Customizable Filters on Sentera Quad Sensor Allow for Unique Crop Health Detection Capabilities Sentera introduces the latest update to its high-precision sensor product line, the Quad Sensor. Featuring four fully customizable imagers, the multispectral Sentera Quad Sensor is a...

Hortau was recently named a CogX Award finalist in the Best Artificial Intelligence Product in Agriculture category. The awards were handed out at last month’s CogX Innovation Exchange and Annual Awards in London, an event that brought together more than...