One way to effectively monitor weeds is using remote sensing data, especially those obtained by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), writes Vidi Nene for DroneBelow.com. In a recent study carried out by the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research-Remote Sensing Division...

The agricultural and forestry drone sales market in China is expected to be worth 20 billion yuan (US$2.9 billion) by 2025, according to a forecast by iiMedia Research, writes Lea Li for the South China Morning Post. The market size...

Farmers Edge and Planet are part of a wave of emerging high-tech firms helping farmers fight a historic foe – bad weather – that’s getting increasingly wilder and more capricious, Bloomberg reports. At the same time, seed sellers Bayer,...

TerrAvion, a leading aerial imagery provider for the agricultural industry, has partnered with Skymatics to be their aerial imagery provider for agriculture, according to a press release on TerrAvion.com. Skymatics uses the latest advances in computer vision and machine...

If you’re a regular visitor to PrecisionAg.com – and we hope you are – you’re keenly aware that precision agriculture and digital farming are changing and evolving. So, too, is PrecisionAg.com. The site now offers entirely new look and focus...

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...