As a Senior Account Executive for Agworld, talking with growers as well as ag retailers about data collection, data sharing, digital collaboration, and information visualization is something I do every day, writes Ryan Humpert at CropLife. In the last...

A leading young South Australian farmer says innovation is being slowed because most software and data platforms developed for agriculture are held behind copyright walls, writes Vernon Graham at North Queensland Register. Andrew Sargent wants the walls ripped down and...

Agrarian culture is a critical component of livelihoods in Asia, writes Joe Devanesan at Tech Wire Asia. Perhaps it should come as little surprise then that industrious startups around the region are constantly looking at ways to complement age-old...

Agri-tech startup RMSI Cropalytics executes satellite-based crop health tracking and yield estimation for several districts in India, writes Sudipta Dev at Express Computer. Roli Jindal, Co-founder, RMSI Cropalytics, shares how they are deploying deep technologies such as machine learning,...

FarmSense has announced the debut of its award-winning smart pest monitoring system, helping farmers adopt the latest in artificial intelligence and analytics to improve insect monitoring and crop management. FarmSense's FlightSensor uses novel optical sensor technology to automate the process...

Israel-headquartered irrigation equipment maker Netafim has clinched an $85 million deal that will involve three new community irrigation projects in Karnataka, India, reports Bismah Malik at The New Indian Express. These three projects will cover 66 villages and 35,000 farmers...

After more than 300 people attended the inaugural event, AdvanceAg is returning bigger and better in July 2021 at the Adelaide Convention Centre, reports Mirage News. Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development David Basham said preparation is underway...

Reinke Manufacturing, a global leader in irrigation systems and technology, and CropX, a leading global agricultural analytics and soil sensing company, have announced a partnership to empower growers with the world’s finest irrigation scheduling tools. By integrating the technologies and...

AgVend has announced the launch of our AgVend Grower Portal. This new product line builds on our mission to constructively power digital commerce in agriculture. Over the past three years, we have worked closely with our retail partners and...

Farmobile has announced that the Federal Court of Canada (Court File No. T-449-17) set April 19, 2021 as the final trial date in Farmobile’s patent infringement lawsuit against Farmers Edge Inc. In the Canadian lawsuit, Farmobile seeks over $20...

Raven Industries, Inc. has announced two advancements for its VSN Visual Guidance System, building upon the company’s bold investment in Raven Autonomy. The latest advancements in VSN — full canopy guidance and automatic row turnaround — allow operators to...

Uncertain. Challenging. Or the one we continue to hear the most, unprecedented. Even as companies are trying to show empathy with all the chaos COVID-19 has caused, these buzzwords have started to fall on deaf ears as we are inundated...

Several private firms are releasing their own crop yield estimates ahead of this Wednesday’s USDA production report. Bob McClure is with Main Street Data, a weather-based forecasting service. “We’re forecasting a record national (corn) yield of 183 bushels per acre,” McClure...

You may have noticed posts on social media recently marking #RuralBroadbandDay, writes Linda Safarian at Agri-Pulse. I’d like to take a moment to consider how important rural broadband is to our industry, our nation and the people who live...

The U.S. ag market will see record-setting 2020 corn yields of 183 bushels per acre, according to Main Street Data, an ag data science company. This forecast is above the 178.5 bushels per acre the USDA has forecast. According...

The U.S. ag market will see record-setting 2020 corn yields of 183 bushels per acre, according to Main Street Data, the ag data science company with the world’s largest and most highly curated data set for yield forecasting. This forecast...

Precision ag technology began in the early 1990s with widespread use of yield monitors in combines that would generate maps of fields based on the grain flow into the hopper as the machine moved up and down the fields,...

Results from American Vegetable Grower’s annual State of the Industry grower survey are in and tabulated, reports Growing Produce. When it comes to technology adoption at the grower level, the numbers indicate that it remains a bit of a mixed...

The CropScan 3300H On Combine NIR Analyser from Next Instruments is proving to be one of the most significant developments in precision agriculture in 20 years. This piece of precision technology can pay for itself in one or two...

The U.S. ag market will see record-setting 2020 corn yields of 183 bushels per acre, according to Main Street Data, the ag data science company with the world’s largest and most highly curated data set for yield forecasting. This forecast...