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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...