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...

You might not be able to tell by driving through rural Delaware, but there’s a lot of technology happening in those fields, from autonomous tractors and combines to smartphone apps, writes Holly Quinn at Technical.ly Delaware. So many smartphone...

Leading precision agriculture company, Taranis, has announced its partnership with precision imaging company, Stratus Imaging, to bring specialized imagery services to farmers in Australia and strengthen its foothold in the region. With this collaboration, Taranis and Stratus Imaging will...

On the occasion of World Food Day, marked at the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, Her Excellency Mariam bint Mohammed Saeed Hareb Almheiri, UAE Minister of State for Food Security, spoke to the significance of global...

There is no bigger industry on our planet than food and agriculture, with a consistent, loyal customer base of 7 billion, writes Ingrid Fung at TechCrunch. In fact, the World Bank estimates that food and agriculture comprise about 10%...

Australian farmer Andrew Slade got interested in ag tech while researching the possibilities of expanding the family business, reports Future Farming. “We invested quite heavily in labor-saving equipment. When we made our business as efficient as possible, I looked...

Sri Lanka can make farming more productive using emerging technologies of the so-called fourth industrial revolution (4IR), reports EconomyNext.  Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka researchers Manoj Thibbotuwawa and Nimesha Dissanayaka write that rapid population growth has put...

Hundreds of millions of people in India depend on farming for their livelihoods, but many of them struggle with losing crops to disease, getting them to market or achieving the right price when they do. Several startups are trying...

This past Saturday, October 19, Agworld celebrated its 10-year anniversary in Perth, Western Australia. With staff, clients, and suppliers flying in from all parts of Australia, New Zealand, and the U.S., more than 100 people helped celebrate Agworld’s continued...

With approximately 75% of total winegrapes harvested throughout Napa Valley, consensus among growers who spoke at the Napa Valley Grapegrowers (NVG) annual press conference today is that 2019 has been a smooth, balanced growing season and that the fruit shows superb...

BASF Venture Capital and Canada’s TELUS Ventures are among the lead investors in a series B investment round for British startup Hummingbird Technologies, a global leader in advanced crop analytics, according to a release at Globe Newswire. Other main...

A lot has changed since I wrote this article on sensor-based soil sampling 21/2 years ago, writes Ben D. Johnson at CropLife First, I acknowledged that sensor-based soil testing is quite a ways off from being widely adopted. Taking physical...

MicaSense has released the RedEdge-MX Dual Camera Imaging System, a 10-band multispectral solution for advanced multispectral imaging applications that features RedEdge-MX and the new RedEdge-MX Blue, according to a company news release at PR Web. Consisting of two cameras...

Recently, the Minister of Agriculture in Italy, Teresa Bellanova, commented on innovative technologies such as cryptocurrencies, blockchain, and distributed technology and their relevance to agrifood products, reports Coin Idol. During the special hearing in the Agriculture Committees, Bellanova clarified the...

Minneapolis, Minn. (October 14, 2019) SOYL, the leading precision crop production service provider in the UK with services in 15 countries worldwide, has signed a new, two year agreement with Geosys, a leader in satellite and weather data analytics...

John Deere has developed an innovative private permission-based platform that allows third-party suppliers of agricultural services to use farm data to help farmers make decisions better, reports South African-based Gadget. Blended with their own data and insights, artificial intelligence...