Market Watch
August 23, 2019
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...
Market Watch
August 23, 2019
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...
Market Watch
August 22, 2019
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,...
Market Watch
August 21, 2019
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...
Market Watch
August 20, 2019
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,...
Market Watch
August 19, 2019
Indian agriculture-tech start-ups have turned out to be the darling of investors in recent times, with the sector receiving more than USD $248 million in funding over the first six months of this year, registering a whopping 300% growth...
Market Watch
August 19, 2019
Iteris, Inc., the global leader in applied informatics for transportation and agriculture, has announced that KWS SAAT (KWS), one of the world’s leading plant breeding companies, will add Iteris ClearAg environmental intelligence to its digital farming platform.
Under the terms...
Market Watch
August 19, 2019
Deere, the giant maker of tractors and combines, plans to cut costs as U.S. farmers continue to grapple with trade and weather disruptions.
Chief Financial Officer Ryan Campbell said on the company’s third-quarter earnings call that the company would examine...
Market Watch
August 18, 2019
Expanding wireless internet access in rural areas will continue to fuel the truly game-changing advances being made by precision agriculture, writes National Grange President Betsy Huber at Agri-Pulse. These include new ways to grow crops using less water, seed,...
Market Watch
August 17, 2019
SVG Ventures and Produce Marketing Association (PMA) have entered a three-year strategic partnership to connect PMA growers with cutting-edge technology, according to an article at FreshPlaza. SVG Ventures will lead panel conversations on AgriFood and AgTech at PMA’s annual...
Market Watch
August 16, 2019
Food security is a global problem that requires a global solution, posts Miriam McNabb at DroneLife. An international group of researchers led by Dr. Stanley Best, Director Nacional Programa Agricultura de Precisión of INIA Quilamap in Chile, is tackling...
Market Watch
August 15, 2019
South Australian satellite communications company Myriota and Queensland ag-tech business Goanna Ag have partnered to develop the ‘everywhere’ solution they say will unlock the power of remote monitoring at a price and scale never seen before, writes Andrew Spence...
Market Watch
August 14, 2019
Blockchain might be best-known for disrupting the financial sector, thanks to Bitcoin and more recently, Facebook’s Libra, according to an article at Scitech Europa. Yet there are scores of other industries ripe for transformation, and smallholder farming could be...
Market Watch
August 14, 2019
Toronto-based Deveron UAS Corp. , a leading agriculture digital services and analytics provider in North America, has entered into an agreement to acquire Kansas City, MO-based digital agriculture provider Atlas Team. The acquisition will allow Deveron to continue to...
Market Watch
August 14, 2019
While some view automation as a way to drive innovation in growing municipalities, in Arizona’s farming fields the technology is also helping researchers break new ground. Arizona 360 saw what role automation has in modern-day farming at the Maricopa Agricultural...
Market Watch
August 13, 2019
Kenyan agri-tech startup Shamba Records has built a blockchain-based platform that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and big data to collect farmers’ harvest records, process payments and issue credit, writes Tom Jackson at Disrupt Africa.
Founded in 2017 and already used...
Market Watch
August 13, 2019
India currently hosts more than 450 start-ups in the agritech sector, according to the National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) report that was released on Monday.
According to the report, Agritech in India – Emerging Trends in 2019, the...
Market Watch
August 13, 2019
Over the past few years, drones have really taken off, going from a pastime for flight enthusiasts to a not-uncommon household gadget, writes Adi Pick at CTech. But the potential for the small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) does not...
Market Watch
August 12, 2019
Mang Vicente “Vic” Berdan, a 59-year-old farmer from Tanay, Rizal, is not new to Facebook. His cover photo shows him and his wife harvesting crops from their farm. The couple also actively replies to friends who comment on their...
Market Watch
August 12, 2019
Agriculture is constantly inundated with new technologies, and sorting through this array of products — what fits, what doesn’t — can be both challenging and perplexing.
The Illinois Soybean Association recently hosted its new Tech Connect event that featured ag...