It is hard to watch television and not see a commercial promoting 5G connectivity these days, writes Lacey Newlin at High Plains Journal, but will it live up to all the hype in rural areas or are we in...

As part of its ongoing commitment to autonomous agriculture solutions, Raven Industries, Inc. has announced that it has entered into agreements to acquire the remaining equity of DOT Technology Corp. (DOT), a leader in autonomous platforms. This additional investment is further indication of Raven’s...

India’s agriculture sector contributes only 14-15% towards the country’s GDP however it consumes 40-45% of total employment, writes Anil Kumar Sharma at Analytics India Magazine. Almost half of the agricultural land depends on rainfall. There is a great opportunity...

Inidan authorities will harness high-tech systems on an “unprecedented scale” to manage the vast farm sector, which heads into its crucial kharif or summer-sown agricultural season, even as experts wonder if the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) will disrupt farming itself,...

Researchers at the University of Illinois are looking at a type of artificial intelligence to see if it can help predict farm yields, reports The Center Square. Farmers may love the land, but they are increasingly relying on artificial intelligence...

GrainChain, the blockchain platform for the agricultural business ecosystem, plans to globally expand and scale its operations by moving to the Symbiont enterprise blockchain platform, Assembly. Assembly provides the robust privacy features, and seamless scalability GrainChain needs to meet...

There’s more to embracing technology than a deep bank account, writes Carol Miller at Growing Produce. The most innovative operations share some common themes. Here are a couple: Open-Minded Managers I visit a lot of farms. Most growers are excited to...

Almost all sections of society are vulnerable to climate change, but I would put smallholder farmers in the “severe” risk category, writes Hemendra Mathur at AgFunder News. Small and marginal farmers in India, with landholdings of less than two...

Are drones replacing agriculture aviators? I’m going to make this really simple, writes HSE UAV President at Future Farming. The answer is no. Absolutely not. HSE-UAV has been selling spraying drones in America longer than anyone else we know. But...

Sony Electronics today announced an expanded ecosystem for its newly enhanced Smart Agriculture Solution with leading AgTech providers. The system is being integrated with farming solutions from Drones Made Easy, BirdsEyeView Aerobotics, Rantizo, and Progeny Drone Inc. Sony’s Smart...

Kubota Corporation and Microsoft have announced a multi-year strategic alliance aimed at accelerating Kubota’s digital transformation. Through the alliance, Kubota will migrate its IT infrastructure and SAP mission-critical systems onto Microsoft Azure’s trusted cloud platform. By standardizing on Microsoft Azure,...

With some reports predicting the precision agriculture market will reach $12.9 billion by 2027, there is an increasing need to develop sophisticated data-analysis solutions that can guide management decisions in real time, reports the Kenosha News. A new study from...

Taranis has announced today the executive appointments of two agriculture industry veterans as vice presidents: Michael DiPaola will join as North American General Manager and Vice President of Sales, and Avi Altaras as Vice President of Operations. The move...

The Smart-Apply Intelligent Spray Control System by Smart Guided Systems has been selected for the Davidson Prize, a high honor for agricultural innovations that are projected to have a significant impact on agricultural production, efficiency, or safety. Smart-Apply was...

Aerobotics technology has processed more than 5 million trees, 50,000 acres of groves and 15% of all citrus in Florida. These numbers are climbing ahead of the approaching mid-April deadline for growers to have their tree census data submitted...

Being the only Part 107 FAA drone operator here at Meister Media Worldwide, I often get invited by the various editors of the many ag markets we cover to write something, anything, about drones, writes Matthew Grassi at Growing Produce. I...

SourceTrace, a global agritech company, in collaboration with ThinkAg, hosted TraceCon, India’s first conference on traceability in agriculture, according to F&B News. The event was held at Le Meridien Hotel here, earlier this month, it featured over 60 industry...

IntelinAir has announced it has joined the NVIDIA Inception program as a community member. IntelinAir is an analytics company that delivers crop intelligence to farmers through aerial imagery, computer vision, machine learning, agronomic science, and intelligent user interfaces. IntelinAir's goal...

Netafim, a global leader in precision irrigation, and FluroSat, a leading company in remote field sensing and analytics, have announced their collaboration on integrating FluroSat's data into Netafim’s automated irrigation and fertigation cloud-based platform, NetBeat. FluroSat's unique remote sensing...

Airbus has launched AgNeo, its new integrated precision farming solution for commodity and permanent crops. Delivering in-season actionable information based on satellite imagery and premium agronomic analytics, AgNeo will help customers save time, optimize inputs and increase yields. AgNeo leverages...