While the technology is in many ways still nascent, it seems already that only a small few of the world’s commodities have yet to be traded using blockchain, writes Mark Jones at Tech Wire Asia. Most of these dalliances seem...

Vive Crop Protection recently closed a $7.2M CAD series B3 equity financing led by Urbana Corporation and supported by existing investor Middleland Capital, as well as Business Development Bank of Canada’s (BDC) Cleantech Practice. Powered by their patented Allosperse...

The social situation as of date is an extremely sensitive one, reports Krishi Jagran. Indian businesses are bleeding, losses being incurred in every industry, and various people will never be able to see life the same way again. The...

A "Sputnik moment" is when a group realizes that they're threatened by the technological developments of a competitor and have to double down on their efforts to catch up. The term comes from when the Soviet Union launched the...

TerrAvion has announced a new partnership with Agrilyze enabling users to seamlessly implement their aerial imagery into the Agrilyze app to benefit fully from its data analytics and other precision farming tools. Through this partnership, Agrilyze's platform will be...

BASF Venture Capital is investing in SmartAHC, a leading supplier of digitalization solutions for pig farming on the Chinese market. SmartAHC was founded in 2014 by graduates of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. The Shanghai-based startup provides customized digital...

Industry stakeholders are capitalizing on a pivotal idea, and the word is spreading. Conference cancellations and restrictions imposed on face-to-face meetings have forced businesses to make a sharp pivot into the digital space. The opportunity that buyers and sellers...

ClimaCell, a global weather intelligence company with customers including United Airlines, Uber, and AWS, has signed an MOU with SupPlant, which develops autonomous irrigation based on IoT. ClimaCell’s hyper-local and hyper-accurate weather intelligence will be implemented in SupPlant’s solutions...

Know when to sell, and when to hold. Market Vision gives growers a powerful daily view into the profitability of their farming enterprise, by updating daily crop size, break-even price, percent sold, and potential year-end revenue. Knowing the market means knowing...

Put data science to work with hyper-local crop forecasting. WeatherYield is the only tool that forecasts grain supply according to your own territory, rather than county boundaries. Knowing supply means knowing your market position. WeatherYield provides a window into supply, showing grain handlers areas...

Forecast supply and optimize accuracy of reserves — by knowing yield sooner, and more often. Progressive WeatherYield is a crop forecast product for corn and soybeans, using crop-stage modeling, and reporting to you up to 2 times per day. FOR GRAIN...

Addressing the grower's true needs and making software easy to use has driven Agrian's product development from the beginning says co-founder and CEO Nishan Majarian, recipient of the 2018 Crop Adviser/Entrepreneur Award in the PrecisionAg Awards of Excellence program

A solid set of buyer personas can dramatically improve your marketing and sales efforts. With them, you can tailor your messaging, products and services to the specific needs of your individual grower segments. But one common obstacle to creating buyer personas...

It is easy to get overwhelmed by all the technology offerings these days. We know as ag professionals you need software that is uncomplicated, unifies your workflow, and is truly a management system for your entire operation. Also, finding...

You can increase crop nutrition with improved nutrient cycling in the soil. If you took your soil to a doctor for a checkup, would the doctor deem your soil as healthy or in need of a prescriptive treatment? Soil health...

Building relationships takes time. Your time is limited. Crop planning is the perfect example of this annual balancing act. Putting together a detailed crop plan that’s specific enough to each individual operation is incredibly cumbersome. Further, in this age of...

As consumers across the country have become more concerned with where their food comes from, and federal, state, and regional regulators have initiated numerous new requirements and rules to help satisfy this need, many in the agricultural community have...

As Italy seeks to boost its agriculture sector and the "Made in Italy" brand as it relates to high-quality foodstuffs, analysts say the Chinese market will play an important role in the sector's recovery, reports the Xinhua News Agency. Earlier...

An agriculture company has successfully lured a tech industry standout to take on a significant role in shaping its future.

Taranis has announced closing a $30 million global Round C funding. With Vertex Growth and Kuok Group’s Orion Fund (managed by K3 Ventures) taking the lead, Taranis has raised $60 million to date and plans a broadscale rollout of...