Market Watch
March 7, 2017
FORBES & The Mixing Bowl's "A Discussion of Technology’s Role in Changing Food and Farming at Scale & The Fight for the Fork."
FORBES MIXING BOWL NYC will explore how information technology can be harnessed to solve challenges in food...
Data Management
March 7, 2017
By far, the most popular question I am asked at any agricultural conference is about the weather and how it pertains to the upcoming growing season. Due to the popularity of that question, the ag industry has been inundated...
Connectivity
March 7, 2017
One of the toughest challenges ag retailers and agronomists have faced in using precision ag technologies is that different software and hardware systems haven't been able to "talk" to each other, hampering the ability to help producers manage valuable...
Data Management
March 7, 2017
The age of big data means big decisions for farmers as they decide who to trust with their information. An industry-wide effort to bring transparency to ag technology contracts is gaining momentum with the launch of a new website:...
Market Watch
March 6, 2017
Most broadacre growers in Australia already use some forms of precision ag on their land, but the opportunity to expand this is still infinite despite a unique set of challenges in the country.
Editor's note: Reinder...
In-Field Technologies
March 3, 2017
Precision agriculture techniques could have substantial financial benefits for producers of hand-picked specialty crops, according to a new paper by Richard Sowers, a professor of engineering and of mathematics at the University of Illinois. Photo...
Market Watch
March 3, 2017
How can information technology be best harnessed to solve challenges in food and agriculture? That’s a question being asked more often lately with the advancement of horticultural tech tools.
Ag-tech incubator The Mixing Bowl will explore this topic and others...
Data Management
March 3, 2017
FarmLogs has announced the FarmLogs Research Network, the first nationwide large-scale, on-farm research network of its kind. Dedicated to organizing and conducting unbiased research and independent analysis, the collaborative program, open to row crop farmers across the country, will...
Data Management
March 2, 2017
A cooperative of growers and an agricultural data nonprofit have agreed to combine their technology platforms and create a vital resource for data-driven agriculture — a neutral, secure and private data storage repository controlled by growers. The combined platforms...
Data Management
March 2, 2017
New Holland has secured agreements to enable wireless data transfer capabilities between its PLM Connect precision land management system and service providers, including Decisive Farming, Encirca services, Onsite, and MapShots, Inc.
If they so choose, users of PLM Connect will...
Drones | UAVs
March 2, 2017
Mavic with True NDVI upgrade is a highly-anticipated offering for Sentera customers who have been seeking a compact, easily transportable drone for the 2017 growing season.
Sentera has announced its ability to convert a DJI Mavic...
Drones | UAVs
March 2, 2017
SLANTRANGE, Inc., announced today the release of their new 3p multispectral sensor system for agriculture drones. The 3p is built on Qualcomm Snapdragon Flight technology, an integrated suite of hardware and software designed for advanced drone and IoT applications,...
Market Watch
March 2, 2017
In an ideal world, all of the fields in a farming operation would fit together like a puzzle, be perfectly flat and have the same rich, dark soil. Since that’s more of a dream than a reality, farmers need...
Drones | UAVs
March 1, 2017
The agreement enables senseFly’s worldwide distributors to offer MicaSense Atlas, a cloud-based processing and analytics solution, alongside trusted drone platforms such as the long-range eBee SQ.
The world’s first-choice producer of mapping drones, senseFly, has signed...
Connectivity
March 1, 2017
Grain producers and handlers may soon have more powerful data management capabilities to address traceability and the regulatory needs of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), thanks to a collaborative effort by AgGateway members to create standards for grain-handling...
Market Watch
March 1, 2017
Many ag professionals are actively using sites such as Twitter and Facebook to promote their businesses. But perhaps no other social media platform helps you connect and engage with customers, colleagues, and companies better than LinkedIn. It has become...
Market Watch
March 1, 2017
Editor's note:Farm Management Systems is not only a hot topic among our contributors, it will also be a key area of focus at the Growing Innovations conference in November. Learn more at GrowingInnovations.com.
First off, if you read that title...
Guidance
February 28, 2017
Topcon Agriculture announces the release of the SI-21 Lightbar, designed as a cost-effective, user-friendly product to complement manual guidance, providing users better visibility of steering corrections required to stay on line.
“The SI-21 Lightbar can be installed remotely by the...
Imagery
February 28, 2017
Agrible has a new tool to help the farming community by giving users the power of aerial insights. Pocket Drone Control is new software technology that makes drones easy to use and effective. It works with Crop Copter UAV’s...
Guidance
February 27, 2017
Topcon Agriculture introduces the new X35 — the next generation in the X-Family of touchscreen displays with advanced functionality.
Designed as a modular solution, the 12.1 inch console runs Topcon Horizon software, providing icon-based and user-definable views for a variety...
