Nutrien Ag Solutions is demonstrating its drive to collaborate with key industry partners with the announced addition of  BASF’s xarvio SCOUTING application within its Customer Portal. The app is designed to enable growers and agronomists to "instantly and accurately...

Extra funding has been made available to expand an autonomous arable farming project in the United Kingdom, reports Chris Mccullough or The Western Producer.  Initially launched in 2016 by Harper Adams University and Precision Decisions, the Hands Free Hectare project...

Mahindra & Mahindra’s Farm Equipment Sector (FES), has announced an investment of CHF 4.3 million (Rs 30 crore) for an 11.25% stake in Switzerland based agri-technology firm Gamaya SA. Through this investment, Mahindra says it will make superior farming solutions easily accessible...

KT CEO Hwang Chang-gyu suggested the world use 5G-based digital technologies to increase agricultural productivity and control livestock diseases, during a seminar hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome, Italy, on Wednesday,...

Plant breeding innovations need to be treated differently to GMOs in order to leverage their potential to contribute to sustainability goals, said trade group FEDIOL in a vision document for the EU agri sector released today ahead of its...

Digital agricultural transformation through smart phones and remote-sensing services can help drive rural development and increase food production to meet the global challenge of feeding 9.1 billion people by 2050, according to a report by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Tens...

By Norma Watenpaugh, CEO of PhoenixCG specializing in collaborative business ecosystems to accelerate innovation and open new markets. As someone who has been architecting and managing business partner ecosystems for more than 30 years in the tech industry, I am quite interested in...

Digital agriculture has the potential to deliver significant economic, social and environmental benefits and, if promoted in an inclusive manner, it can contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva said today in as statement. "Information...

Goa Agriculture Minister Vijai Sardesai discussed the idea of developing an Agricloud, a digital platform for the management of the state’s agriculture activities. The interface would enable the government to register farmers and keep track of all subsidies and...

Microsoft has registered a suite of applications in Brazil that are designed to improve efficiency in the agriculture sector, according to an exclusive report by Cointelegraph Brazil on June 6, reports Thomas Simms. The technology, known as FarmBeats, uses blockchain, drones, IoT, artificial intelligence and big data to improve productivity....

At Earlham Institute (EI), artificial intelligence based techniques such as machine learning are moving from being merely an exciting premise to having real-life applications, where it's needed most: improving efficiency and precision on the farm. Researchers in the Zhou Group...

TerrAvion is excited to be integrated with the Farmbox platform, the largest farm management platform in Brazil, according to a press release on GlobeNewswire.com. This integration gives growers effortless access to TerrAvion’s high-resolution aerial imagery to support the actions...

By 2024, over 2 million farms and 36 million cattle will be connected. ABI Research’s Agriculture’s Digital Transformation – AgTech and Farming application analysis report highlights IoT-driven opportunities in the agricultural market including connected agriculture in field crops, tree...

What do you get when you combine the top sunflower-producing state in the U.S. with the top state for honeybees and an innovative Australian startup company collaborating with the University of North Dakota, one of the nation’s leading universities...

A robotic monitor that is slow and an energy miser can be far superior to one that is fast and an energy guzzler for many applications, including environmental monitoring, precision agriculture, infrastructure maintenance, and a slew of security applications. That’s...

THE use of drones to find skeleton weed is set to amp up with new technology aiming to greatly increase the amount of hectares that can be covered. New remote sensing data collection technology to complement traditional surveillance methods is...

John Deere, the world’s largest manufacturer of agricultural equipment and Corteva Agriscience, the global leader, in two large, attractive markets – seed and crop protection – underpinned by expanding digital capabilities have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) aimed...

BASF on Wednesday announced it opened its new global Agrochemical Application Research Center (AARC) in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. The facility will help to further optimize stewardship guidelines regarding on-target application of BASF crop protection products used worldwide. Research...

As the agricultural workforce shrinks in the United States and other major markets around the world, some Clemson University researchers believe robots may help provide a means to protect food and fiber industries. A group of them studying the use...

U.K. online supermarket Ocado wants to pick and pack every one of its 55,000 items that customers can order and has worked with the Horizon 2020-funded SOMA project to develop robotic 'soft hands', according to an article at FreshPlaza.com. This...