Data Management
April 24, 2017
Farmers Edge announced it has partnered with Allied Cooperative, a provider of agronomy, feed, grain, and equipment services to growers across 700,000 acres in central and western Wisconsin.
With the all-in-one Farmers Edge Precision Solutions platform, Allied’s more than 2,200...
Market Watch
April 21, 2017
(via AgLaw.us)
This recent article on Motherboard is getting a lot of press: "Why American Farmers are Hacking Their Tractors with Ukrainian Firmware", writes AgLaw.us blog author and well-known ag attorney Todd Janzen in a recent blog post.
The article alleges...
Market Watch
April 21, 2017
(Via AgFunderNews.com)
Image via AgFunderNews.com
Heard of Clean Seed Capital Group? No? You will very soon because this Canadian company has been quietly developing seeding and planting technologies that are likely to revolutionize agriculture, argues AgFunderNews.com's Louisa...
Market Watch
April 21, 2017
*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...
Imagery
April 20, 2017
Sentera is excited to announce the launch of its closed beta for field-edge Plant Population Analysis, available through its AgVault Software platform. Plant Population Analytics assess where plants are and are not growing, calculates an emergence measurement, and visually...
Data Management
April 20, 2017
Following Farm Market iD’s February 2017 introduction of FieldVision, its mobile data-delivery platform, the company announced today its newest online product release: FarmFocus with Grower Profile.
Steve Rao, CEO, said, “We are very excited about the new FarmFocus with Grower...
Data Management
April 19, 2017
Rob Berglund, global director of sales, energy and agriculture at The Weather Company, discusses IBM’s Watson and applications for advanced analytics that will fundamentally change the way American farmers approach crop production. Berglund discusses how cognitive computing enables quick diagnosis and proactive decision making.
https://youtu.be/AGBhojsJbNk...
Data Management
April 19, 2017
Ernie Chappell of EFC Systems discusses five factors impacting the ag retail industry, the competitive advantages of enhanced customer engagement and business risk management solutions.
https://youtu.be/sGeFCYL_TNQ...
Market Watch
April 19, 2017
When it comes to managing livestock and feed, the goal for every farmer is to be as efficient and productive as possible. While today’s farmers have embraced some technology, such as GPS auto-steering tractors, many of their processes are...
Market Watch
April 19, 2017
Large flat areas cultivated with soybean, corn and cotton in Mato Grosso, Midwest Brazil.
Editor's note: Rodrigo Trevisan is Coordinator of Precision Agriculture at Terra Santa Agro in Brazil, where he is responsible for the development of projects...
Market Watch
April 19, 2017
Advancements in the area of precision technology on sprayers are changing the way products are applied.
Throughout the years, precision agriculture has facilitated improvements to farming equipment, from auto-steer on combines to variable rate seeding on...
Market Watch
April 18, 2017
(Via GrowingProduce.com)
BASF recently announced that it has reached a global licensing agreement with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard for the use of CRISPR-Cas9 genome-editing technology to improve products in agricultural and industrial microbiology applications, writes Christina Herrick...
Market Watch
April 18, 2017
The up-and-coming generation of farmers, and those following them, will face some big questions as they span their careers, writes Frank Giles in a recent piece covering farming focused TED Talks on GrowingProduce.com.
How will agriculture feed a growing population...
Data Management
April 17, 2017
Farmer's Business Network (FBN) released today its "The Voice of the Farmer", a special research report on the state of American agriculture and the challenges facing farmers, according to a post over on sister site CropLife.com.
The Voice of the...
In-Field Technologies
April 13, 2017
(SOURCE: Fendt.com)
MARS stands for Mobile Agricultural Robot Swarms. Or in other words, it stands for agriculture of the future, writes Fendt in a recent post regarding it's promising Project MARS initiative.
They are mobile. They are cloud-controlled. And they are...
Imagery
April 12, 2017
Planet and FarmShots have collaborated to provide John Deere Operations Center users access to Planet's unprecedented global imaging capacity, allowing farmers to view up-to-daily imagery of their fields. Planet operates the largest constellation of Earth-imaging satellites and provides cost-effective...
Data Management
April 11, 2017
For those that may not know, Farmobile CEO Jason Tatge is a rather interesting character.
I first met Jason at a John Deere API conference in Kansas City, back in 2014, when Johnny Manziel was still a young buck backup...
Drones | UAVs
April 11, 2017
Sentera today announced the availability of its precision agriculture solutions at over 350 retail locations across North America. By broadening the reach of Sentera's precision agriculture offering, agronomists, crop consultants, and growers can leverage critical normalized difference vegetation index...
Drones | UAVs
April 7, 2017
Commercial drone software platform developer DroneDeploy has announced an integration with the agX to help growers more easily capture field maps and analyze aerial data. agX users can now share field boundaries saved in agX with DroneDeploy to simplify the planning of...
Drones | UAVs
April 7, 2017
Possibly in response to the escalating situation between U.S. forces and Syria in the Middle East, FAA has issued UAS NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) FDC 7/7137, establishing airspace restrictions for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) over 133 military facilities in the...
