After recently celebrating its 10-year anniversary, Agworld has announced its expansion into the Canadian marketplace. Agworld is currently already active in Australia, the U.S., New Zealand, and South Africa, making Canada the fifth major market where Agworld connects the...

At its recent annual Ignite event in Orlando, FL, Microsoft announced that Azure FarmBeats, a project that until now was mostly a research effort, will be available as a public preview and in the Azure Marketplace, writes Frederic Lardinois...

TeleSense, a post-harvest grain monitoring innovator, has announced the general availability of its Cellular SensorSpear to give grain managers and barge operators an easy and reliable way to accurately monitor stored grain, ensuring grain quality while reducing spoilage and...

FluroSat has announced the release of PIVOThermo alert, the first tool in a suite of automatic analytics the company has been building with industry partners across both hemispheres. PIVOThermo is an innovative tool that integrates thermal imagery and machine...

XAG Annual Conference 2019 (XAAC), themed 'Empowering the Next-Gen Farmers', was hosted on 28 October in Guangzhou, China, according to a company release. It brought together 1,300 people, including XAG's strategic partners, solution providers, agricultural experts, and renowned media...

In mid-October, I had spent part of one week visiting companies in the Iowa/Minnesota/South Dakota geography, writes Eric Sfiligoj at CropLife. One of my stops was to see the folks at Raven Industries in Sioux Falls, SD. At that...

Farmers and contractors operating fleets of machinery from different brands will in the near future be able to securely exchange and view machine data through a common interface called DataConnect, according to a news release at Deere & Co....

BASF and WinField United, the crop inputs and insights business of Land O’Lakes, Inc., have announced a new collaboration that will make it easier for growers and retailers to access digital farming solutions across multiple platforms. The two companies will...

The Innovation 2019 silver medal winner revealed by Agritechnica, Dino robot from French company Naïo Technologies is now equipped with an innovative inter-plant weed control solution. By associating a deep learning crop detection technology with a precision electric active...

Celexus, Inc. has announced that it is developing proprietary software using blockchain algorithms specific to the complexities of hemp biomass transactions. Additional technology in development includes drone mapping, soil nutrition, and data analytics, among others. To support its mission...

Raven Industries, Inc. has announced it has acquired Smart Ag Inc., a technology company that develops autonomous farming solutions for agriculture. This acquisition is part of Raven Autonomy, the company’s strategic growth platform to become the industry leader in...

The Global Ag Tech Initiative is looking for select correspondents in key parts of the world to help augment the work of our editorial team this year.

Making good on its pledge to focus on the development of autonomous solutions for agriculture, Sioux Falls, SD-based Raven Industries announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire majority ownership of DOT Technology Corp. (DOT™), manufacturer of...

A lack of robust broadband connectivity in rural areas is the chief obstacle to more U.S. farmers adopting precision agriculture technologies, which would transform domestic food production and boost the U.S. economy, writes Kendra Chamberlain at BroadbandNow. A food crisis...

SoilEssentials Ltd., the award-winning precision farming solutions pioneers, based in Angus, Scotland, will be showcasing an innovative new product for potato growers at the forthcoming BP2019, the potato industry event, reports PotatoPro. Called Tuberzone, this new-to-the-market innovation cleverly tracks and...

To exceed $100 billion in farm gate output by 2030 Australia needs to unlock innovation by taking advantage of new technologies, writes Sharon O'Keeffe at Queensland Country Life. This will require effective partnerships between major technology companies, entrepreneurs and...

Drones used by farmers have huge global potential due to food safety concerns and the demand for quality produce, agriculture drone vendor XAG told SHINE. XAG's drones are currently used in 38 countries and cover 310 million mu (206,667...

For model year 2020, John Deere has introduced a new 8 Family Tractor lineup that includes 8R wheel tractors, 8RT two-track tractors and the industry’s first fixed-frame four-track tractors, the all-new 8RX. These new tractors come standard equipped with...

Raven Industries, Inc. has announced details of its strategic plan, which include a significantly increased level of investment in targeted areas in order to drive greater earnings growth and long-term value. Over the next several years, the Company will...

Several private sector entities with the support from academia from universities across Sri Lanka have embarked on pilot projects to introduce AI (Artificial Intelligence)-based technologies to boost commercial farming, vital to feed the growing population, said Professor in Crop...