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...

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...