Market Watch
February 23, 2017
Matt Damon farming potatoes on Mars in "The Martian"
In early 2016, I was lucky enough to hike the Salkantay Mountain range in Peru. It’s about a 50 mile hike at elevations up to 15,000 feet....
Drones | UAVs
February 22, 2017
The upcoming ASCEND Conference & Expo will deliver practical information about using drones to improve processes in precision agriculture. ASCEND will be held at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, OR, July 19-21, 2017.
“ASCEND will go beyond celebrating drone...
Drones | UAVs
February 21, 2017
The new AccuStar GPS receiver from Case IH features simple operation to quickly and cost-effectively equip late-model tractors or combines with guidance capabilities.
Driven by the growing demand for efficient data management, the latest Advanced Farming...
Digital Farming
February 20, 2017
Crop protection and ag biotech giant Bayer and fertilizer producer Yara International ASA have entered into a software collaboration and technology license agreement to provide farmers worldwide with digital farming tools that help increase farm productivity, profitability and sustainability.
According...
In-Field Technologies
February 17, 2017
Phil Asmundson is by no means a veteran viticulturist, writes David Eddy on GrowingProduce.com, but a half-dozen years ago, after watching his wife and business partner, Kim, auguring soil samples, he recalls turning to her and saying, “No offense,...
Data Management
February 17, 2017
We are entering a very exciting time in agriculture. With so many great software platforms and data collection tools we are on the cusp of unlocking some really deep, profound information and management techniques like we’ve only dreamed of...
Market Watch
February 17, 2017
Garden City Co-op (GCC), through a retailer agreement, has been using MZB Technologies as their precision ag platform for a year. Thanks to the success of the program and continued area growth, GCC has now been added as a...
Drones | UAVs
February 17, 2017
Land O'Lakes, Inc. is calling on innovators from the tech industry to enter the Land O'Lakes Prize: Drone Challenge, a crowdsourcing competition designed to develop proposed solutions that enable scalable, autonomous drone usage in precision agriculture. A prize of...
Connectivity
February 16, 2017
Building on its strategy to drive innovation and adoption for IoT services in high-growth markets, Verizon today announced that it has purchased Skyward, a private company based in Portland, OR, according to a press release from Verizon's Enterprise Solutions...
Guidance
February 15, 2017
New AccuTurn automated headland-turning technology from Case IH takes the guesswork out of turning on headlands, which gives you improved accuracy and reduces operator fatigue. Using software logic from the Case IH Autonomous Concept Vehicle (ACV), this next-generation Advanced...
Market Watch
February 15, 2017
To help growers monitor, adjust and learn from the performance of their planter or sprayer while it moves through the field, the company has introduced the new John Deere Connect Mobile App.
Over time, Connect Mobile will include other operations,...
Drones | UAVs
February 15, 2017
Sentera today announced its ability to convert a DJI Phantom 4 Pro drone into a precision scouting tool that collects TrueNDVI crop health data, just in time for the 2017 growing season in the northern hemisphere. By integrating the...
Market Watch
February 15, 2017
New Holland Agriculture expands its product offering with the introduction of three Precision Land Management technologies, PLM Drone Data Management, IntelliTurn and Cygnus-A receiver. These new products, like the rest of the PLM offering, are engineered to reduce cost,...
Data Management
February 14, 2017
A number of poultry growers have filed suit against Tyson Foods, Perdue Farms, and other poultry integrators alleging that growers’ production data was shared among integrators to depress grower payments. This is the first case where farmers’ ag data...
Market Watch
February 13, 2017
Over the last 30 days, I’ve been immersed in all things precision agriculture. If you received your personal copy of CropLife® magazine, then you had to tear through a plastic cover to get to the issue. And hopefully, you...
Connectivity
February 10, 2017
Connecting various aspects of the supply chain using IoT-based solutions can have a big impact on how things are done in agriculture.
Supply chain visibility and efficiency is a big part of running a profitable agricultural...
Data Management
February 9, 2017
Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture today announced a comprehensive integration between the sustainability metrics and algorithms of the Fieldprint Platform and leading precision agriculture, decision support and farm management software solutions. The integration provides commodity crop...
Market Watch
February 8, 2017
With SpeedTube on White Planters 9800VE Series planters, producers can now achieve precise seed placement of corn at speeds nearly double traditional operating speeds.
AGCO Corp., a worldwide manufacturer and distributor of agricultural equipment, is bringing...
Market Watch
February 8, 2017
“Breakthrough Applications and Business Models for Sustainable Farming” is the theme of the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit to be held in San Francisco, CA, March 28-29, 2017.
The summit, produced by Rethink Events of Hove, UK, is expected to attract...
Market Watch
February 7, 2017
AgLaunch continues to expand its farm-centric innovation platform to accelerate the process of bringing new ideas into agriculture, according to a press release from the Memphis, TN-based startup incubator.
The organization offers a one-stop shop for researchers, farmers, logistic providers,...
