A Cape Town, South Africa agri-tech start-up company held a post-harvest vineyard management workshop in Paarl to educate farmers and the agricultural industry on how to use the latest innovations in precision agriculture, reports Mthuthuzeli Ntseku for Independent Online. Aerobotics...

Nokia’s Smart Agriculture-as-a-Service solution runs on the Nokia Worldwide IoT Network Grid (WING), which is a global horizontal platform which allows telcos to not only roll out IoT services more quickly on their network but gives them the flexibility to scale globally when they need...

Technology is changing the face of agriculture by enabling farmers to increase production, reduce costs and, streamline activity across the entire agricultural value chain to help ensure that long-term food security is maintained, reports IT-Online. Termed "disruptive technologies" because they...

TKXS, a B2B technology and data-driven solutions company, has been named by CIOReview as one of the "20 Most Promising AgTech Solution Providers – 2019," according to a news release on PRNewsWire.com. According to the technology publication, honorees of the...

Since World War II, Europe's agricultural sector has been very receptive to new technology, and the result has been staggering productivity gains – for four generations, farmers have produced more than their parents did, writes Xavier Reboud on Phys.org....

Decisive Farming, the leading integrated farm management platform announced today its partnership with DTN, the leading provider for actionable weather and agricultural insights, according to a press release on DecisionFarming.com. Through this collaboration, Decisive Farming customers will have increased...

TerrAvion has announced the completed integration of TerrAvion aerial imagery data into the EFC Systems FieldAlytics platform. This newly coined integration allows subscribers of TerrAvion aerial imagery to effortlessly transfer their field boundaries through the FieldAlytics field management system...

As the world’s population continues to increase at a fast pace, more food and water will be needed to sustain humanity, writes Mark Trapolino at Sensors Online. In the past 50 years, we have tripled our need for water...

A field robotics start-up based on technology created by the University of Sydney's Australian Centre for Field Robotics has received a $6.5 million investment, thanks to Australia's longest running research commercialization fund, Uniseed. Founded by University of Sydney Professor of Robotics...

In recent years, seasonal labor has become much more scarce, and more expensive — making it difficult for growers of apples, citrus, berries, lettuce, melons, and other handpicked produce-aisle items to harvest their crops, reports John Seabrook for The...

Toyota Motor Corp. has started testing a service that analyzes farm soil with optical sensors, allowing farmers to strategically distribute fertilizer to increase crop yields, reports Chunichi Shimbun via the Japan Times. The experiment in Suzuka, Mie Prefecture, uses the...

Like automotive firms, agricultural equipment maker AGCO is planting the seeds of transformation, implementing a common global IT infrastructure, more digital manufacturing processes, and an agile approach to IT service and development, reports Christopher Ludwig for automotiveIT International. While the...

The CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture is helping to facilitate a new relationship between farmers and the digital world, reports Food Tank. Using the emerging tools of Big Data, the CGIAR Platform is developing approaches for solving complex...

Emerging technology will make it attractive for farmers to adopt autonomous vehicle technology and send their grain trucks from the field to the grain elevator without having to rely on a human driver, writes Dirk Maier for World Grain....

A new global agreement between Airbus Defence and Space and Bayer subsidiary The Climate Corporation is set to deliver satellite imagery to end-users through the Climate FieldView platform, according to a press release on Airbus.com. Farmers who use Climate FieldView...

TerrAvion has been integrated with the Agrian platform, the largest most widely adopted agricultural software in the U.S. This integration gives ag retailers, agronomists, and growers all over the country effortless access to TerrAvion’s high-resolution aerial imagery to support...

After mechanization, chemistry and biotechnology, agriculture is undergoing yet another revolution with digital agriculture — or agriculture 4.0, writes Jonathan Dubrulle for The European Scientist. However, there is not just one but several digital agricultures: While they share the use...

Winemaking may be one of the modern era’s oldest industries, but today many point to climate change as a crisis that may threaten future viability of the wine industry in some regions. Winemakers and grape growers have embraced new...

Agriculture in India can be transformed, but only if several elements come together, writes Kavitha Srinivasa for Engineering & Technology. First, every part of the farming sector requires a technology overhaul. Second, it needs connectivity, with tractors and other...

The Climate Corporation, a subsidiary of Bayer, and Lindsay Corp., a leading global manufacturer and distributor of irrigation technology, have announced a platform agreement that will establish two-way data connectivity between The Climate Corporation's Climate FieldView digital agriculture platform...