Market Watch
June 11, 2020
John Deere announced it has enhanced the integrated technology of its new 5R and 6M Utility Tractors to give customers an easy, cost-effective way to view AutoTrac Automated Guidance System information without having to purchase a separate display. AutoTrac...
Market Watch
June 10, 2020
TerrAvion has announced that its high-resolution imagery data now lets growers do stand counts on corn, soybean, and other analytics on the Agremo platform. The ability to use TerrAvion's cost-effective imagery for stand counts with a high confidence rate,...
Market Watch
June 9, 2020
Growers Edge Financial, Inc. and Arva Intelligence have announced a strategic partnership to help farmers become more efficient and profitable by delivering data-backed solutions that remove the financial risk of deploying new technologies. Arva and Growers Edge will jointly...
Market Watch
June 9, 2020
Right now, we are in the early innings of a transformative moment in ag retail. This period will lay the groundwork for how business, and more importantly, the grower experience, will be fundamentally changed due to technology. The initial...
Market Watch
June 9, 2020
Growers today face greater challenges than any previous generation.
Market Watch
June 8, 2020
Digitization of agriculture can help farmers tackle the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and farmers can ensure sale of their produce with transportation, finance, and supply chain being managed with the help of technology, according to Pune-based agritech enterprise...
Market Watch
June 5, 2020
A third of the earth’s area is already unfit for growing crops, writes Garsha Sai Nitesh at Krishi Jagran. Earth-friendly agriculture which refers to the proper use of land, water, labor, diversity, and technology to decrease the environmental impact...
Market Watch
June 4, 2020
Agro.Club, a U.S.-based startup transforming the way the agriculture industry buys and sells, has initiated plans to expand into Europe and has already launched operations in North America following the closure of a $1.5M seed round led by Speedinvest, with participation from Elevator Ventures, the...
Market Watch
June 3, 2020
One of the overriding messages for those in the business of agriculture in 2020, comes down to roughly this: Control what you can, and make the best of the previously unthinkable, writes Jackie Pucci at CropLife.
“In times like this,...
Market Watch
June 2, 2020
Agri-foodtech accelerator GROW said it will be looking for startups from across Asia Pacific to participate in its new program focused on food security, reports Miguel Cordon at Tech in Asia. GROW is a global accelerator backed by Enterprise...
Market Watch
June 1, 2020
The U.K.’s largest lowland estate has struck a deal with a precision farming firm to reduce food waste in the production stages, writes Rachel Martin at AgriLand. Elveden, a world-class producer and purveyor of local and regional food excellence,...
Market Watch
May 29, 2020
As trusted advisors, it’s important we partner with growers to ensure equipment demos are a good use of growers’ time and most importantly, safe for all involved.
In a perfect world, every grower customer has a...
Market Watch
May 27, 2020
The Bosch Group has increased its investment in The Yield Technology Solutions, an Australian Internet of Things ag-tech business, reports Food Magazine. As the major shareholder, the increase takes the Bosch Group investment to a total of $13.3 million.
The...
Market Watch
May 26, 2020
By now, farmers are months into managing their business through a global pandemic with no guidebook, user manual, or advice from prior generations that can be used for reference, writes Granular's Julie DiNatale at CropLife. It is all new...
Market Watch
May 26, 2020
Cognitive Pilot has announced what it claimed is “the world’s largest autonomous driving project for agricultural machinery” with Rusagro Group LLC. The companies plan to test Cognitive Agro Pilot, a Level 3 autonomous driving system for combine harvesters, tractors,...
Market Watch
May 26, 2020
From the Marketplace to Powering Grower Portals
We started AgVend to help both ag retailers and growers leverage technology to do business together more efficiently. We aimed to give our Partner Retailers a new channel of revenue to combat the...
Market Watch
May 25, 2020
A New Zealand based scientific traceability company says businesses need to be aware of the risks of counterfeiting and fraud in fresh produce, as agricultural exports de-commoditize in favor of brand premium products, reports Hortidaily.
"Australian (and New Zealand) agriculture...
Market Watch
May 22, 2020
The Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University, in collaboration with Microsoft, has created the Purdue Food and Agricultural Vulnerability Index online dashboard to quantify the potential risk to the supply of agricultural products as a result of COVID-19 farm and...
Market Watch
May 21, 2020
Geosys has launched a new field alert system called Field Focus for their Croptical tool. This makes the application more proactive for users by applying advanced satellite data analytics to evaluate the performance of all fields being monitored.
Now, users...
Market Watch
May 21, 2020
FMC Corp. has announced the launch of Arc farm intelligence, an exclusive precision agriculture platform that enables growers and advisors to more accurately predict pest pressure before it becomes a problem. Arc farm intelligence is the first mobile platform to...