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...

Since ancient times China has been an agricultural country, with both huge demand for and large-scale production of a wide range of agricultural products, writes Shuqing Chen at Synced. China’s per capita arable land area however is far less...

It is a great time to be an agribusiness in India writes Sohini Mitter at YourStory. Although we’ve traditionally been an agrarian economy, with nearly two-thirds of the country’s population earning its livelihood on farms, there is a renewed...

Valley Irrigation is gaining traction with the initial launch of Valley Insights service. Through the partnership between Valley Irrigation and Prospera Technologies announced in February 2019, the Valley Insights limited release has demonstrated successful results this growing season, turning...

Kenyan agri-tech startup Lentera has signed a working capital finance facility with the Kenya Climate Innovation Center (KCIC) to enable it to provide climate smart agriculture solutions to more farmers while it seeks equity investment, writes Tom Jackson at...

UAVOS has announced the addition of R22-UV unmanned helicopter to its agriculture unmanned aircraft portfolio for spraying for diseases, weed and pest control, and vegetative control. R22-UV is a manned Robinson-22 helicopter converted by UAVOS to an unmanned aircraft. “Precision...