Agriculture has historically depended on disruptive discoveries and innovations to make big strides. In the 20th century, four innovations brought about change in agriculture: genetics (seeds), mechanisation, fertilizers and pesticides. These four innovations allowed more food, feed and fiber to be produced from less and...

Ghana-based smart farming company Complete Farmer has opened its platform to buyers who wish to purchase quality agricultural products at competitive prices, directly from the company’s tech-enabled farms, reports Modern Ghana. The team leverages technology and data to optimize the...

EOS Earth Observing System, a leading retailer for remote sensing satellite data, has launched its digital agri platform — EOS Crop Monitoring — for the North American market, according to a release at PR Newswire. It combines AI, satellite...

Did you know Algeria was a Mediterranean farming superpower? It was. Unfortunately, it lost its agricultural glory due to erratic rainfall and drought, reports Cape Business News. In an effort to address this very challenge and in line with Algeria’s...

Connectivity, interoperability, data portability, and data rights are the technology challenges that the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) believes has hindered the widespread adoption of digital technologies for agricultural businesses, writes Aimee Chanthadavong at ZDNet. During an address to...

Growing up and working in California’s Salinas Valley, Jaclyn Bennett has long heard the complaints from growers who want to use beneficial insects but bemoan the man-hours needed to disperse them in the field, reports David Eddy at Growing...

The international push for the digitization of agriculture coupled with the emergence of the precision agriculture concept promises a paradigm shift across the entire agricultural supply chain, from farm to fork, writes Kevin Doolin at the Irish Examiner. However,...

Integrated CBD, an institutional scale and quality supply chain leader for hemp-derived CBD, has announced the installation completion of plant-based sensor technology, powered by ag-tech company Phytech, on their approximately 10,000-acre industrial hemp farm in Yuma County, AZ. As...

Fledgling Australian ag-tech business AgriDigital has made a big step with the company announcing its North America launch, writes Gregor Heard at Queensland Country Life. North America is widely regarded as the most competitive ag-tech market in the world,...

As I sit here and ponder what are all the great things that are being created for the agriculture industry I also have to take pause to push myself down into reality so that I don’t dig myself down...

Leading global crop protection company ADAMA Ltd. and top precision agriculture startup Taranis, announced today their global partnership to develop a full service package solution to optimize farming practices and decrease costs through precision agriculture. The collaboration reflects ADAMA’s decision...

China-based XAG has announced it has introduced autonomous drones to improve pest control efficacy against disease caused by fall armyworms, writes Gulli Arnason at Financial News. XAG is among the first to introduce fully autonomous drones in some of the...

India which currently hosts more than 450 start-ups in the agri-tech sector and every ninth start-up in the world in this field is originating from its soil, the nation has a humongous task at hand -- educating farmers in...

Feeding a growing world through innovation. Helping produce higher yields through automation. Enhancing environmental stewardship through data-driven decision making. Empowering economic prosperity by investing in entrepreneurs. These are among the stories featured in "A Power For Good," Deere's annual...

Delair, a leading provider of visual data management solutions for enterprise, and Geosys, a leader in satellite and weather data analytics for agriculture, have announced a partnership aimed at expanding the options for gathering and analyzing data for enhanced...

At this week’s InterDrone conference in Las Vegas, Michael Ritter of SlantRange gave a great presentation – and explained how drones may be able to completely revolutionize global agriculture, reports Harry McNabb at DroneLife. Imagine aerial data that can tell you much, much...

AgJunction Inc. has announced three new patent allowances in the U.S. and Europe, according to a news release at Globe Newswire. The first allowed patent describes an invention where position sensors (such as GNSS and IMU) are used to accurately...

It’s hard to open any agricultural website or magazine without reading about ag data, writes Doug Fitch at CropLife. Plenty of new and established companies are able to help growers collect and store this data while some can even...

ICL, a leading global specialty minerals and specialty chemicals company, has announced that it will work closely with AWS to accelerate the development of its open digital services platform designed to enhance the capabilities of agronomists and other agriculture...

Aker Technologies has announced it has secured an investment of $2.6 million in new equity financing. The funding will be used to advance its TrueCause technology, an autonomous crop-scouting platform. TrueCause and the Aker Pest Network provide growers, suppliers,...