There is no single description of a “precision grower” in commercial fruit production, writes James Sulecki at Growing Produce. Crops, geographies, technologies, farm size … all are far too variable. However, we can say with some certainty that the...

Every two years, the engineers from around the world who design agricultural machinery attend a series of events in Hannover, Germany, despite the inevitably grey, chilly weather, writes John Schueller at Growing Produce. In November, the latest iteration of...

Lindsay Corp., a leading global manufacturer and distributor of irrigation and infrastructure equipment and technology, and Farmers Edge, a global leader in digital agriculture, announced a plan to connect and digitize two million irrigated acres by the end of...

As automation and artificial intelligence continue to transform Canadian workplaces, post-secondary institutions across the country say they are working to prepare students for jobs that may not even exist yet. Climate change, data science and cybersecurity are increasingly in the...

With India facing the prospect of feeding 1.6 billion people by 2050, experts have said that the country must turn to Artificial Intelligence (AI) to weed out inefficiencies in national agriculture, writes Akhil Kadidal at Deccan Herald. Speaking at the...

When I first started compiling this roundup of the best agriculture apps 10 years ago, there was no shortage of new introductions to research, writes Matt Hopkins at CropLife. Farming apps were all the craze and ag professionals couldn't...

There are many steps that a Certified Crop Advisor (CCA) and the farmer need to take to ensure that their precision agriculture equipment is being used efficiently, writes Stephen Redmond at CropLife. When industry, or CCAs, talk of “precision...

A cotton farmer who uses yield maps while harvesting this year’s crop could potentially increase yields next season while becoming more efficient with input costs, according to University of Georgia precision agriculture specialist Wes Porter, writes Clint Thompson at...

Agriculture in the European Union after 2020 must be encouraged to adopt innovative tools to meet growing environmental challenges, but this requires modernization, money and knowledge, EURACTIV Poland reports. The European Commission has emphasized the need for greater innovation and...

The House of Representatives passed Farm Bureau-backed legislation that will improve the accuracy of broadband coverage maps to better identify needs. The Broadband Deployment Accuracy and Technological Availability (DATA) Act (H.R. 4229) requires broadband providers to report more specific data...

U.S.-based hemp company HempWave has announced its intention to purchase a controlling interest in Celexus, Inc. from the current majority shareholders of Celexus, according to a company release at Globe Newswire. Celexus would then change it’s name to Hempwave and...

From digital advisories on weather and planting information to marketing of produce and accessing financial and insurance services, agriculture is coming of age in Kenya, where about 25% of Africa's digital agriculture startups are located, according to a report...

Technology and precision agriculture at the retail dealership is a tale of two distinct, opposing perspectives, writes Paul Schrimpf at CropLife. The broader view paints a picture of future data compatibility, value-rich farmer interfaces that provide growers with insight...

Artificial Intelligence programming changes the world of computing technology, reports Robots.net. It turns how we live, work, and put the status quo in life. AI programming enables a computer to accomplish human-like activities with high speed, quality, and accuracy....

Smart Agriculture Conference (SAC 2020), hosted by XAG, was co-organized by Chinese National Precision Agricultural Aviation Centre and partnered with Alipay, reports Alex Douglas at Commercial Drone Professional. Held in Beijing on December 19, the conference featured XAG’s new...

Massive amounts of agricultural data are being collected around the world by scientists utilizing drones for remote sensing, agronomic yield measurements, or plant breeding variety trials, writes Kay Ledbetter at Texas A&M AgriLife Extension. Seth Murray, Ph.D., Texas A&M...

With depleting resources, reducing land sizes and increase in input and labor costs, combined with uncertainties around weather and market prices, agriculture in India has become a profession that is more risk intensive, writes Anthony Devassy at The Financial...

“It looks like something my five-year-old would draw!” the text message read. It was from a producer I worked with, writes Erin Hightower at CropLife, who had just begun looking at his agronomic data in the data management system. And...

In order to get fresh produce to its consumers, the ecommerce giant Amazon Retail India (ARIPL) has announced that it is running a farm-to-fork pilot project in Pune, where it will be directly working with farmers to source fresh...

IBM’s artificial intelligence (AI) engine Watson, named after its founder Thomas J. Watson, is gaining momentum in India as businesses look to modernize their IT infrastructure backbone. reports Ayushman Baruah at Mint. “We are seeing triple digit growth in India...