A new mechanical weeding machine may help change the face of fallow weed control across Australia’s broadacre grains industry, according to an article by the Integrated Weed Management Resource Center. The Weed Chipper, developed by agricultural engineers and researchers from...

New precision drilling and planting robots have been developed by Coventry, England-based robotics specialist the Manufacturing Technology Centre in partnership with the Small Robot Company, reports Fresh Produce Journal. MTC engineers and scientists worked with the Hampshire-based agri-tech start-up to...

Hello Tractor, a firm in sub-Saharan Africa that connects tractor owners with farmers, is benefiting from several powerful new technologies maturing such as the IoT, cloud, and AI, reports Ryan Daws for IoT Tech News. “We start by informing the...

Australian commodity management platform AgriDigital has handled over AUD$1.2 billion (US$861 million) of grain transactions to date, representing over six million tonnes, reports Eco-Business. The company is expanding into cotton and other commodities, and has begun exploring the U.S....

Crop loss is devastating for farmers. With increasing ecological volatility, it's also a fact of life, writes Greg Nichols at ZDNet.com. But a host of new techniques known collectively as "precision agriculture" or "agricultural intelligence" can help. One company,...

Beck’s precision farming platform FARMserver has partnered with Sentera to simplify the process of uploading drone imagery into their multifaceted precision farming technology. For users who are flying with Sentera’s FieldAgent, uploading drone images is now easier than ever...

The PrecisionAg® VISION Conference returns for a fourth year, Jan. 14-16, 2020 in Seattle, WA, U.S, with an event theme of "System of Systems." Precision agriculture in North America is taking a more wholistic view than ever, notes James C. Sulecki,...

The world market for precision agriculture is forecast to hit $12 billion by 2025, according to research company Global Market Insights, and many of the industry's largest participants are moving into the space, writes contributing writer Peter Guest for...

Agricultural drones are flying above while driverless machines transplant rows of rice seedlings in a farm in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, a major rice production base, according to a recent report on Shine.cn. The work is carried out on an...

Reading this month’s cover story on the move to mechanize the apple industry, I couldn’t help but think of the irony that this year marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission, writes...

Science and technology will be core to the farming revolution, which teachers and agricultural leaders envision as including robots, temperature and moisture sensors, aerial images and GPS technology, alongside big data that affects everyone — suppliers, farmers, traders, processors,...

Agriculture ministers of the Group of 20 major economies Sunday adopted a statement that calls for promoting the use of artificial intelligence systems and robots in agriculture, according to an article on Nippon.com. "We've confirmed the importance of sharing...

The warm spring weather has seen drills out in force around the country, with an increasing number of farmers adopting precision drilling techniques, writes Ken Fletcher at The Scottish Farmer. But, for those with a range of different equipment...

Although the market for precision agriculture-based drones and robots was only at $2.5 million in 2018, a new report by BIS Research indicates the market (including both drones and robots) could explode to $23 billion in the next decade,...

In August 2017, iUNU announced it had secured $6 million in venture capital funding from big-name investors – including Reddit’s Alexis Ohanian and football great Joe Montana to name a few – to officially launch its new greenhouse artificial...

German company Bayer's agriculture division Bayer Crop Science in China and China's National Agricultural Technology Extension Service Center (NATESC) under the Ministry of Agriculture recently launched the Action Plan for Enhancing Green Development Capability in Beijing, writes Zhu Lingqing...

Microsoft is expanding the pilot program of FarmBeats to Africa, starting in Kenya, reports Microsoft Cares GH. The program in Nairobi will reportedly be focused on addressing the specific challenges of farming in Africa with the intent of...

New Zealand is one of the 33 major apple growing countries in the world, and for the past four years, it has been a leading force in the market in terms of output and innovations, despite deterioriating weather conditions,...

Soft fruit growers in the U.K. look set to benefit from new commercial-scale water saving research which is being developed to improve precision irrigation and fertigation techniques, reports FreshPlaza. Farm levy board AHDB is to co-fund the Water Efficient...

With aging farmers, tighter immigration laws, and jobs nobody wants,  the agricultural industry is facing challenges that technology and robotics can solve, writes Denham Sadler at Information Age. And now is the time for investors and farmers to get...