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,...

Syngenta and The Cropio Group have announced that Syngenta has completed the acquisition of all relevant assets of The Cropio Group, an ag tech company with a presence in over 50 countries, but with a primary focus in Eastern...

CNH Industrial N.V. has announced its agreement to acquire AgDNA, a leader in Farm Management Information Systems (FMIS), reports CropLife. This acquisition will enable CNH Industrial’s customers, and those of third-party agricultural machinery, to benefit from AgDNA’s single point...

Modern and efficient farm equipment lets farmers improve their produce, reduce input costs, reduce work and increase comfort, and more, reports Silicon Canals. Such precision agriculture equipment produces higher yields with reduced pesticides and increases the efficiency of the...

Were the need to arise, Brian Tischler could simultaneously sip coffee in a café in Vienna, Austria while using his smartphone to steer a tractor across his 2,500-acre farm in Mannville, Alta, writes Naomi Powell at the Regina Leader-Post....

Syngenta Seeds has announced the launch of a new digital platform to help farmers maximize profit potential through data-driven seed recommendations, reports Yahoo Finance. The NK Seed Analyzer combines artificial intelligence, two decades of agronomic information and a simple...

Precision agriculture continues to gain interest and traction throughout the crop inputs industry, writes Dan Jacobs at AgriBusiness Global. Integrated solutions – whether they include drones, satellites, sensors, or other technologies -- have much to offer growers and certainly...

Deepening its commitment to improving farmer livelihoods in India, the Walmart Foundation today announced $4.8 million (approximately Rs. 34 crores) in grants to Digital Green and TechnoServe to enable programs that help smallholder farmers have access to agriculture technology, training on sustainable farmer...

Blueberry harvest may be winding down across Oregon's Willamette Valley, but there is still plenty of activity happening at the Curry & Co. processing plant north of Salem, writes George Plaven at Capital Press. Forklift drivers stacked crates of berries...

We need more young Africans to farm. Let’s give them the tools to do so, writes Michael Hailu, director of the Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Development (CTA), at African Business. It has long been clear that agriculture...

By 2050, 10 billion people would require a 70% increase in global food production. In order to satisfy the global food demand, there is a strong need for sustainable agriculture solutions. For that reason, agricultural technology is one of the...

Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley (YMVSV), the venture arm of Yamaha Motor Co, led the $7.5 million Series A funding round for Advanced Farm Technologies (AFT), which develops robotic farming equipment like the T-6 robotic strawberry harvester, which uses multiple robotic...

GROWMARK, Inc. has announced its partnership with global ag-tech leader Solinftec on digital solutions, reports CropLife. The partnership will help FS member companies become more efficient in their operations to cover more acres a day, which will ultimately help...

In 2018, Brazil had over 230 million cows chewing their cuds – about 22% of the 1.02 billion cows living on this planet – and consequently was the world’s largest exporter of beef that year, according to an article...

Agriculture technology startup CropX Inc. has raised a $10 million funding round, reports CTech. The round was participated by Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors, Tokyo-listed Sumitomo Corp., Australia-based Armada Capital Ltd., San Diego-based agtech fund Finistere Ventures, Chicago-based ag-tech fund...

Nine South Australian business, industry and academic leaders have been appointed to the new Minister’s AgTech Advisory Group to provide a coordinated and long-term approach to the development and uptake of technology in agriculture in South Australia, reports Mirage...