Major stakeholders in agricultural mechanization have called for the adoption of a value chain approach to mechanization as one of the best options towards attaining high productivity in agriculture on Africa, writes Collins Nnabuife at the Nigerian Tribune. Speaking during...

Agmonitor Inc. (formerly PowWow Energy Inc.) has announced $1.5M in new private investments provided by SaaS leading expert and multi-generational farmers. As with the company’s 2016 Seed round, this second round of financing was complemented by a grant of $3M...

The average sprayer found in U.S. orchards, vineyards, and fields is about 20 years old, making the field ripe for advancement, writes David Eddy at Growing Produce. Several companies have accepted the challenge, though they have approached it in...

Sentera has announced a partnership with Anheuser-Busch under which Sentera will deliver critical grower-level insights to forecast nitrogen demand in rice production. This technology, delivered using advanced remote sensing tools, will empower growers to improve productivity and profitability by...

Indigo Agriculture, a company dedicated to harnessing nature to help farmers sustainably feed the planet, has announced the first commitments from large global brands to purchase verified agricultural carbon credits through Indigo Carbon. The commitments from companies including Boston Consulting...

'Uberization' is a word derived from the functionality of 'Uber', the popular commute option in our fast-paced world, reports Business Wire India. This word has various applications and connotes a property of a highly tele-networked business to hit the...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), IBM and Microsoft, at a recent event organized with the Pontifical Academy for Life, relaunched a commitment towards developing forms of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that are inclusive and promote...

Truterra, LLC, the sustainability business and subsidiary of Land O'Lakes, Inc., one of America's largest farmer-owned cooperatives, has announced a new pilot project with Nori, a company using blockchain technology to create a new voluntary carbon removal marketplace. The...

Raven Industries, Inc. has announced it is making key leadership changes as part of the company’s continued strategy to drive greater growth and to further position the company for long-term success. Last year, the company launched a bold expansion of...

The Grooms family has been growing strawberries in Plant City, FL, since 1974, writes Frank Giles at Growing Produce. Over the years, the farm has adapted to changing times and market conditions to sustain production. Today, Dustin Grooms has taken...

Agriculture could benefit disproportionately from artificial intelligence to replace low-value manual labor, especially in countries where the farming workforce is dwindling and aging, reports Hortidaily. At the inaugural Smart Agriculture Competition organized by Pinduoduo, China’s largest agricultural e-commerce platform, teams...

Leading Indian agrochemical company Dhanuka Agritech Ltd. has partnered with Gramophone to provide crop solutions to Indian farmers, according to IndianWeb2. Dhanuka brings its agronomy expertise and world class technology on the tech platform of Gramophone for farmers to get...

Leading agriculture organizations representing farmers and interests across all 50 states have announced their support for the Keep GPS Working Coalition. The coalition was launched in June to protect GPS users from harmful interference resulting from the Federal Communications...

Farmers Edge has announced a partnership with Radicle Group Inc., the largest developer of agricultural carbon credits in North America, to create a new, high-tech carbon credit program powered by real-time field data. Together, the two companies form a...

Autogrow has ramped up their activity in the Northern Hemisphere by establishing a new Sales Director Europe and U.K. role based in the Netherlands supporting their expanding customer base for new digital farming solutions FarmRoad and Folium. CEO Darryn Keiller...

So many technologies … creating so much data … in so many silos, writes Thomas Skernivitz at Growing Produce. How is a grower supposed to keep track these days? “By collecting data in separate silos, it is hard for growers...

Recently, Rajya Sabha passed two farm bills — Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020 along with the Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020, writes Shraddha Goled at Analytics India Magazine. One of...

It’s no secret that farming has become increasingly high-tech, but a partnership between The Ohio State University and an Ohio agribusiness is taking things even further with new field scouting technology that involves a drone and artificial intelligence (AI),...

Climate Corporation argues that every spray droplet should land where it’s going to do the farmer the most good, and it says new features of its Climate FieldView management system are letting producers do exactly that, writes Alexis Stockford at Manitoba Co-operator. The...

Innovations across agribusiness in the last decade are revolutionizing the industry.