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...

AeroVironment, Inc., a global leader in unmanned aircraft systems for both defense and commercial applications, has announced its 2019 Quantix and AV DSS University Collaboration Project, according to a press release at Business Wire. The project’s focus is to...

You have challenges. The cost and availability of quality labor. Food safety issues. Trade pressures. Making efficient use of scarce water resources. Dealing with mountains of data from all of the latest tools and technology, but having no way...

CropLogic Ltd. has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Boring Hemp Company of Oregon USA, an initiative that could see the group establish a hemp trial farm in Australia, similar to the one it is operating in Oregon,...

It’s a simple equation: More people on an increasingly threatened planet need smarter ways of producing food, writes Carsten Rhod Gregersen at ITProPortal. And this is especially so when the humble bee, an insect which pollinates one-third of all...

With increasing population, urbanization, and contagious depletion of natural resources, there has to be a paradigm shift in farmer’s perception from production to productivity and to profitability, according to an article at Down To Earth. In this present scenario,...