Market Watch
August 19, 2016
Steve Cubbage has seen that precision agriculture use has been closely tied to farmers’ ability to see a profit from it, writes Benjamin Herrold, Missouri Farmer Today.
Farmers have kept looking for ways to use precision ag to improve their...
Market Watch
August 19, 2016
Veris Technologies and The Climate Corp., a subsidiary of Monsanto Co., recently announced a partnership that will make high resolution soil maps from Veris on-the-go soil sensors available as a key data layer for the agronomic models in The...
Data Management
August 18, 2016
To share or not to share? For farmers working in a world of data management, that is the question, writes Nat Williams on IllinoisFarmerToday.com.
Some are comfortable relaying information about their operation to crop consultants, seed salesmen and other farms....
Data Management
August 18, 2016
New standards, models and other resources to help growers more easily manage their field data have been introduced by AgGateway, a nonprofit consortium of agribusinesses, according to an article on AgriView.com.
“We’re entering a new era for solutions in precision...
Market Watch
August 18, 2016
Trimble announced today that it has added four new partners to its Vantage distribution network — a global network of independent partners that provide growers, advisors, retailers, co-ops and local OEM dealers with precision agriculture expertise for the entire...
Data Management
August 18, 2016
Green Aero Tech, a Canadian-based drone imagery provider, has just struck a deal to provide data to two of the largest John Deere dealerships in Canada – Enns Brothers and Western Sales. This collaboration will give John Deere customers...
Drones | UAVs
August 18, 2016
Professional drone maker, senseFly, has teamed up with the popular aviation navigation app, Air Navigation Pro, to launch Safer Together. This joint initiative has been designed to address one of the biggest issues facing the General Aviation (GA) and...
Market Watch
August 17, 2016
DuPont Pioneer researchers are reporting the results of scientific studies demonstrating the potential of CRISPR-Cas as an advanced plant breeding technology to increase the productivity and sustainability of agricultural products, according to a recent DuPont Pioneer press release.
This week,...
Market Watch
August 15, 2016
Precision agriculture — with all its wacky technologies and advanced algorithms and such — remains a people business. So, without further adieu, on the pages ahead are the Top 10 people (in alphabetical order) we feel are driving precision agriculture...
Market Watch
August 12, 2016
Many media companies regularly rank their favorite or most important developments for the past year in various Top 10 lists because they provide a nice snapshot of what’s been taking place in a particular marketplace.
And if there ever was...
Digital Farming
August 11, 2016
The future of technology in agriculture has never looked brighter, or more confusing than it does in 2016. We at PrecisionAg magazine have been at this for almost 20 years now, and we’ve seen the booms and busts, the...
Data Management
August 11, 2016
There is a fascinating depiction of the human body from the perspective of how the brain senses touch. The body is shown as large hands, lips, and tongue, and a relatively small torso, legs, and feet. This exaggeration is...
Data Management
August 10, 2016
For nearly the last 100 years, agriculture has witnessed only consolidation. This has been true across the board, from machinery manufacturers, to seed companies, to farm cooperatives and grain elevators, writes Ag Law Attorney Todd Janzen in a recent...
In-Field Technologies
August 10, 2016
SRI International today announced the spin-out and launch of Abundant Robotics, an agriculture technology company focused on helping make nutritious foods such as apples and other tree fruits more accessible. Abundant will commercialize and build on several years of...
Data Management
August 10, 2016
Farmers Edge, a global leader in precision agriculture and independent data management solutions, has announced the appointment of Scott McKinnon as General Manager of Australian Operations. A former Syngenta executive and 20+ year veteran of global agriculture technologies, McKinnon...
Data Management
August 9, 2016
Farmer’s Business Network, Inc., the independent farmer-to-farmer network, has raised $20 million in additional funding, led by Acre Venture Partners. This financing enables the FBN network to further expand its farmer network, farm analytics service and the rapidly growing...
Drones | UAVs
August 8, 2016
InfoAg 2016 - Union Station, St. Louis, MO.
Well, there you have it, folks. Another summer rounds third and heads for home (NFL regular season here we come!), another InfoAg Conference is officially in the books.
The...
Data Management
August 8, 2016
When it comes to precision agriculture technologies, farmers not only want complete control of their data, they want a tool that’s secure, private and easy to understand. Beck’s has announced that it’s precision farming tool, FARMserver, has been awarded the...
Market Watch
August 8, 2016
The sustainability of the agriculture production system in India appears to be under threat due to over-exploitation of natural resources, environment degradation, fall in biodiversity and exposure to production risk, according to an article on TribuneIndia.com.
Precision agriculture and conservation...
Imagery
August 4, 2016
The University of Leicester's experts in satellite imagery and high performance computing will work with the industry to develop a system to help farmers make better use of satellite images, according to an article on FarmingUK.com.
The partnership, with Precision...
