Hummingbird Technologies has signed an agreement with Agrovista to provide a digital platform and remote sensing offering that complements existing agronomic services, reports Potato News Today. Using satellite data captured from arable fields, Hummingbird Technologies will create advanced crop...

Ground-breaking drone programs abound in Africa, with applications including medical delivery, precision agriculture, flood management, and insect control, reports DroneLife. At the African Drone Forum, it is clear that the goals of participating countries and companies are far greater...

Each year, independent corn and soybean seed company Peterson Farms Seed researches and tests innovative methods to apply seed and fertilizer, writes James Carroll at Vision Systems Design. Field conditions such as soil content and plant health must be...

Ag-Analytics has announced an integration of its flagship PROFITLAYERS tool and The Climate Corporation’s industry-leading FieldView digital farming platform. Through this partnership, growers can connect their FieldView account with Ag-Analytics to create customizable profit maps from their own precision ag...

It is of greatest concern that the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) has spread through more than 20 countries and become a global health emergency. To address the urgent need for strengthening disease prevention measures, a Chinese agriculture technology company XAG...

Agritech, which refers to the use of technology and technological innovation to improve the efficiency and output of agriculture, is poised to have a major impact across the world, and most particularly emerging markets, reports reports Fintech Singapore News. Agritech...

Netafim, the global leader in precision irrigation, and Arable Labs, the leader in innovative field-sensing and analytics, have announced their collaboration in integrating Arable's data into Netafim's automated irrigation and fertigation cloud-based platform, NetBeat. Arable's unique field sensors and...

From every byte of every streamed television program we see, to the tweets, photos and stories that roll past us on social media, we live, breathe and drown in data, writes Tracy Courage at Cotton Grower. According to Visual...

Sentera’s stand count analytics product is now available for cotton within the company’s FieldAgent Platform. This extension to Sentera’s stand count tool will help cotton growers and ag professionals make informed replant decisions via a detailed, acre-by-acre view of plant...

Sound Agriculture recently announced the launch of Source, a first-of-its-kind product, the company said, that helps growers maximize crop performance by activating nutrients that already exist in the field, supporting profitability and sustainability efforts on the farm. Available for the...

Farmers from western Saskatchewan developed a system that improves overall pass efficiency for producers, writes Ron Lyseng at The Western Producer. The pair knew they needed the tools and setting up the work manually wouldn’t cut it. Launch Pad is...

AgWorks, LLC and FieldReveal, LLC have announced a partnership to jointly deliver world-class zone-based variable rate and decision support software to retailers throughout North America. AgWorks has invested decades developing a decision support system that creates real value for both...

After recently celebrating its 10-year anniversary and expanding into its fifth major market, Canada, Agworld has announced it has acquired all assets and ongoing affairs of Greenbook from Farm Journal. Greenbook, one of the U.S.'s most comprehensive ag data...

Bushel, an innovative provider of grain industry software, and Granular, a leading Farm Management Software platform, have announced an agreement to collaborate, streamlining farmers grain management and marketing tasks. This initiative will create a connection between the Bushel platform,...

The farming industry will become more important than ever before in the next few decades, writes Andrew Meola at Business Insider. The UN projects that the world's population will reach 9.7 billion by 2050, causing global agricultural production to...

The influential VISION Conference threw a spotlight on the innovations fruit and vegetable growers should watch for this coming decade, writes Matthew Grassi at Growing Produce. Normally this international forum focuses on forward-looking issues surrounding row crops. This year, it...

Deere & Company has announced the companies that will be part of the 2020 cohort of the Startup Collaborator program in its Intelligent Solutions Group. This program launched last year to enhance and deepen collaborative relationships with startup companies...

A critical labor shortage threatens the ability of leafy green and other cool-season vegetable growers to produce and harvest their crops, writes Richard Smith at Growing Produce. What can an operation do to gain some control over the crisis?...

PrecisionHawk, Inc., a leading provider of drone technology for the enterprise, has announced that James Norrod has been named as the company’s new CEO. Michael Chasen will lead PrecisionHawk’s advisory board and continue to champion efforts to integrate commercial...

New policy settings and infrastructure upgrades are required for Australia’s agriculture technology sector to mature, according to the National Farmers Federation, which has asked the federal government to adopt a “leadership role” in digital agriculture, writes Joseph Brookes at...