The Andersons (Nasdaq: ANDE) announced the construction of a new 1.5 million-gallon urea ammonium nitrate (UAN) storage tank at its Lordstown, Ohio, facility to better serve their customers and the UAN market. The Lordstown facility is a wholesale fertilizer...

Technology can already be found everywhere on French farms, but the so-called “agri-tech” trend wants to push innovation even further. Two hundred fifty of France’s start-ups are already specializing in agriculture and working towards developing software, drones, robots, artificial...

The Andersons, Inc. (Nasdaq: ANDE) is now offering a new biological nutrient product known as Bio Pass™ that mixes easily with liquid starter fertilizers and is applied at planting. It is formulated to disperse equally throughout the fertilizer solution to...

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 Science Daily. A new study from...

DTAC and Yara in Thailand are joining efforts to bring together agricultural knowledge and digital connectivity to deliver unparalleled access to agriculture information and resources to empower smallholder farming communities, reports the Bangkok Post. This is an exciting first step...

The global population is growing. The climate is changing. Feeding the world will become increasingly challenging in the years ahead, reports the Cornell Chronicle. The tools of technology can help develop innovative solutions, but it’s too big a task to...

ICL (Israel Chemical), a global specialty minerals and specialty chemicals company, has acquired Growers Holdings, Inc., an innovator in the field of process and data-driven farming, as ICL further enhances its digital service offering and accelerates its global development roadmap. Growers'...

With Silicon Valley and technology development firms investing more time and dollars in agriculture than ever before, writes Erin Hightower at CropLife, there are more options to adopt agriculture technology at all points of the farming cycle. However, just...

This is a preview of The Internet of Things (IoT) research report from Business Insider Intelligence. The farming industry will become more important than ever before in the next few decades. The UN projects that the world’s population will reach 9.7 billion by 2050,...

Semios, the leading precision farming platform for permanent crops, has raised US$75 million in private equity funding to advance the development of its data-driven crop management solution, reports the company. The financing was led by Morningside Group, a Boston-based...

I’ve spent the last couple of months through editorials, stories, and even on camera in my weekly video noting the amount of productive collaboration that agriculture has experienced over the past year, writes Paul Schrimpf at CropLife. I firmly...

Capitalizing on Australia’s blockchain-driven economic opportunities will require effective regulation and standards, skills and capabilities and international investment and collaboration, according to Technology Decisions. The federal government-released ‘National Blockchain Roadmap’ discusses how industry, government, and researchers can work together over...

Deep in rural western Zimbabwe, where tarred roads are nonexistent, Japhet Ngwenya used to spend every season worrying that the people who advise him on how to protect his crops from dry spells and pest invasions would not be...

Farming has always been part of India’s economic identity, reports News Today. In this year’s Union Budget, the government has provided 30% increase in funds at Rs 1.42 lakh crore for agriculture and farmers’ welfare ministry. With sparkling growth...

A digital network administered as part of the Andrews Labor government’s Internet of Things (IoT) trial will enable agricultural communities in Victoria to better manage their crops, reports Food Processing. NNNCo, an Australian IoT network provider, will work with Agriculture Victoria...

IBM is seriously designing a blockchain proof-of-concept (PoC) for an agency of the USDA called the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), which will enable it to assess how distributed ledger technology (DLT) can fully enhance important regulation services...

John Deere was recently presented with a pair of AE50 Awards for outstanding innovations that improve production agriculture, reports AgriNews. Every year, the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers recognizes the 50 most innovative product-engineering designs in the food...

It used to be almost a joke, seeing some variation on the expression, “labor pains,” used by a new editor here at Meister Media Worldwide, writes David Eddy at Growing Produce. We cover the gamut of specialty crops, among other...

At $64.7 billion, specialty crops comprised one-third of U.S. crop receipts and one-sixth of receipts for all U.S. agricultural products in 2017. USDA funded $287.7 million towards 213 specialty crop automation or mechanization projects from 2008 – 2018. Title VII...

Yara International, a provider of crop nutrition and digital farming solutions, and IBM are inviting farmer associations, industry players, academia, and NGOs from the food and agriculture industry to join a movement, writes Charles Brett at Enterprise Times. This...