Market Watch
June 6, 2019
South Australia’s Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development Tim Whetstone travelled to Israel as part of an Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce Trade Mission, writes Teresa Umali at OpenGov Asia. According to a recent press release, the top agenda...
Market Watch
June 6, 2019
A necessary condition for precision farming is quick remote analysis of the state of plants in the fields and greenhouses. To solve this problem, various spectral indices based on measurements of reflected light in narrow spectral bands are widely...
Market Watch
June 6, 2019
XAG estimates it accounts for more than half of agricultural drone sales in China, serving more than 1.2 million farmers. The company has 27,000 drones in operation, most of which were sold to companies that offer pesticide-spraying services. The...
Market Watch
June 4, 2019
Raspberry-picking robots are on the horizon, writes May Hanbury at Business Insider. A new robot being developed by Fieldwork Robotics, a spin-out company from Plymouth University, could let farmers pick more than 25,000 raspberries a day. The robot was...
Drones | UAVs
June 4, 2019
Drone sprayers have been used in Pacific Rim agriculture for more than two decades, and they gained California certification four years ago. But do they have potential beyond the orchard gate? Probably not, at least not in the foreseeable future,...
Market Watch
June 4, 2019
Make agriculture “sexy” to woo youth was the main message shared at a recent meeting for business and government leaders in Africa and India, according to a story by By Esther Ngumbi and Mwaura Nganga on AllAfrica.
Today, Africa’s youth...
Market Watch
June 4, 2019
As the food industry continues to evolve, advanced technology is becoming a more prominent part of farming, writes Forbes Contributor Lana Bandoim. In recent interviews, three experts shared their ideas about the future of farming and tech.
Ofir Schlam, CEO...
Digital Farming
June 3, 2019
The mechanization of agriculture is an old story. In the U.S., writes Bruce Posner for MIT Sloan Management Review, bigger and more automated tractors are planting and harvesting thousands of acres of megacrops like corn, wheat, and soybeans, using...
In-Field Technologies
June 3, 2019
Sustainable precision agriculture is this century's most valuable innovation in farm management that is based on using information and communication technologies, notes The Hans India.
India has many hurdles to adoption including farm size and educational and economic challenges. However,...
Market Watch
June 3, 2019
A new report by market analysts and consultants Tractica has said that global shipments of robots designed for agricultural use are set to rise to a value of $87.9 billion by 2025, reports TechHQ.
Karen Lewis, a tree fruit specialist at...
Market Watch
June 3, 2019
Esri, a global leader in location intelligence, has announced a new partnership with AgIntegrated, makers of Onsite API Services and QC Pro, a well-known data hub for the agriculture and forestry segments, according to a press release on BusinessWire.com....
Market Watch
June 3, 2019
Brazilian digital agriculture company Solinftec has set up its North American offices at Purdue Research Park in West Lafayette, Indiana, and is trying to create a data-aggregation system powered by artificial intelligence that allows U.S. farmers to closely monitor...
Market Watch
May 30, 2019
XAG’s CEO Peng Bin and co-founder Justin Gong attended a series of intensive meetings with delegates from Bayer to orchestrate a blueprint for mutual business development while discussing how to build a sustainable agroecosystem with science and high-tech in...
Market Watch
May 30, 2019
Precision agriculture is reaching new heights, writes Harry McNabb for DroneLife.com.
Agriculture has been a major vertical for commercial drones since the industry took off: and now, sophisticated analytics and software combine with evolved drone solutions to allow for new...
Market Watch
May 29, 2019
Iteris, Inc., the global leader in applied informatics for transportation and agriculture, and Effigis Geo-Solutions (Effigis), a leader in innovative geospatial-intelligence driven solutions, has announced that Effigis will utilize ClearAg to enhance its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered FieldApex fertilizer management...
Market Watch
May 28, 2019
The Maharashtra state government has been looking to work with drone companies, and a workshop was held in November 2018 where the process of drone mapping was studied for irrigation and agricultural use in the Indian region, according to...
Market Watch
May 28, 2019
The 10th edition of “Berries of Ukraine-2019: Fresh & Frozen” held in Kyiv, impressed the Fructidor team by the new start-ups willing to implement Artificial Intelligence technologies to the market. Algo Human, one of Ukrainian start-ups representing robotization approach,...
Market Watch
May 28, 2019
India is one of the most-affected countries when it comes to the phenomenon of global warming and climate change, considering it has a large population to feed and thereby an extensive agricultural set up, reports YourStory.com. Erratic rains and fluctuating temperatures have been at the helm...
Digital Farming
May 22, 2019
A senior engineer at John Deere has been honored with a prestigious prize in recognition of his contribution to advancing digital farming technologies, reports IVT International.
Receiving the Grashof Commemorative Medal from the Association of German Engineers (VDI), Dr-Ing habil....
Digital Farming
May 22, 2019
IBM is hoping Watson can improve the future of food and crop years as it launched a global version of its cognitive tools for agriculture, ZDNet reports.
Watson Decision Platform for Agriculture aims to combine predictive analytics, artificial intelligence, weather data,...
