UAV-IQ has announced that it is offering aerial biocontrol, a new integrated pest management (IPM) service that uses drones to release beneficial biological control agents bred by Koppert Biological Systems, according to a press release on PR Newswire. Drone-based...

Reading plant stress can be a difficult endeavor, especially for nuts or wine grapes, where deficit irrigation is desirable near harvest, writes Christina Herrick at Growing Produce. Currently, pressure chambers are the most common way to measure plant stress. “It’s...

Elders head of technical services Graham Page believes for precision agriculture to deliver value it needs to support farmers to make informed decisions, writes Sharon O'Keeffe for the North Queensland Register. "I think everyone would have a different interpretation. Mine...

Raven Industries, Inc., a leading provider of precision ag technology, has expanded its logistics and control offering to help ag retailers find more efficiency, and profitability, in their custom application operations, according to an article on CropLife.com. Featuring the...

While artificial intelligence is commonly employed within customer service, manufacturing, and retail, one sector that may not immediately spring to mind when one thinks of AI is agriculture, according to an article on Thomas Insights. Nevertheless, farmers are increasingly...

Drones were praised as one of the reasons behind the rapid growth of smart agriculture in China at the World Economic Forum’s 13th annual meeting of the New Champions, writes Alex Douglas for Commercial Drone Professional. As an official...

The global artificial intelligence (AI) in agriculture market is expected to reach approximately US$2,075mn by 2024, at a CAGR of above 21% between 2018 and 2024, with the Asia-Pacific region demonstrating a lucrative growth, according to Zion Market Research...

Kambyan Network, which is implementing digital farming methods at an 800ha oil palm plantation in Tanjung Malim, Perak, is rolling out phase 4 of the project, reports The Malaysian Reserve. Under this phase, the company will introduce its autonomous harvesting,...

The agriculture industry now is experiencing rapid growth and adopting advanced technologies in order to bolster the overall yield of the crops, writes Vivek Kumar at Analytics Insight. Accessibility of a large number of equipment and state-of-the-art technologies like...

The Federal Communications Commission is forming a new task force to advise the commission on how to ensure farmers and ranchers have the connectivity they need to use and benefit from precision agriculture, according to an article by the...

While transforming food and agriculture to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals is becoming increasingly urgent, ‘smart farming’ appears to many as an attractive way to achieve sustainability, not least in terms of profit, writes Francesco Ajena at P2P Foundation....

Shares in AgTech group CropLogic Ltd. opened higher on Tuesday morning after management confirmed that the group had met another milestone in completing planting at its Hemp Trial Farm in Central Oregon, reports Trevor Hoey on Finfeed.com. This season,...

Proceedings from the 12th European Conference on Precision Agriculture, held in early July in Montpelier, France, now are available for U.S. $195 in either print or e-book format. The proceedings, edited by John V. Stafford, contain reviewed papers that reflect...

According to the "State of Digitalisation of Agriculture in Africa 2019," the agriculture market in Africa is projected to grow to $1 trillion by 2030 and continues to be a catalyst of sustainable development for enhanced food security, reduction...

Plant science students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are still taught to phenotype by hand, wading into muddy fields to record the differences in physical characteristics between varying corn hybrids with a small set of tools and a pen...

In Brazil, the state of Bahia has launched a blockchain application to track the process of public bidding on government contracts, according to Cointelegraph Brazil on July 12 and reported by FXStreet. The blockchain-based solution, called Online Bid Solution...

Last year, we joined private equity leader TPG as an investor in Brazilian farm operations management startup Solinftec, which we called at the time “the most successful agtech company no one has ever heard of,” writes Rob LeClerc at...

“Precision Agriculture is a management strategy that gathers, processes and analyzes temporal, spatial and individual data and combines it with other information to support management decisions according to estimated variability for improved resource use efficiency, productivity, quality, profitability and...

Farms produce hundreds of thousands of data points on the ground daily, Forbes notes. With the help of AI, farmers can now analyze a variety of things in real time such as weather conditions, temperature, water usage or soil...

George Zhuang is so close to his goal, he can almost taste it, and it would be as exquisite as the finest wine, writes David Eddy for Growing Produce. Zhuang is a University of California Cooperative Extension Viticulture Advisor in...