Smart farming systems reduce waste, improve productivity, and enable management of a greater number of resources through remote sensing, writes Shawn Chandler on IoT Agenda. In traditional farming methods, it was a mainstay for the farmer to be out in...

Hortau, a Lévis, Québec-based provider of precision irrigation management services for agriculture, has closed a $20 million financing, writes Kirk Falconer at The PE Hub Network. The round was backed by Export Development Canada, which invested $7 million, and Fonds...

Demand for agricultural drone pilots in China has risen as the technology matures, enabling a skilled operator to cover more acreage than human effort ever could. It is also driven ironically by the shortage of manpower in the countryside,...

An Irish-led research project aims to harness the power of supercomputers to help vineyards across the globe improve grape quality and yields. If successful, the project could lead to better-tasting and potentially cheaper wine, writes John Kennedy for Silicon...

We traditionally think of infrastructure as the roads and bridges that connect our cities and people with one another, writes Lisa R. Youngers on TheHill.com. While these are critical components of any nation’s infrastructure, in our increasingly digital world,...

"Food production in the 21st century requires enormous ingenuity, technological savvy and expertise," said Christopher Giancarlo, Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, writes Donald Marvin on Forbes.com. Giancarlo was one of the high-profile speakers at February's USDA 95th...

Leading global crop protection company ADAMA Ltd. has partnered with Tactical Robotics Ltd., an innovative Israeli aerospace company, in a joint feasibility study for a High-Payload, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for aerial spraying. Tactical Robotics has developed the Cormorant, a...

Activity in the ag-tech sector has skyrocketed over the last five years — marking its arrival as an important piece of the venture capital ecosystem, according to with Arama Kukutai of the venture capital firm Finistere. Kukutai told Tim Sandle...

Computing software company niolabs has entered into a progressive partnership with the University of California, Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. The design of this partnership combines niolabs' patented technology with the globally eminent UC Davis agriculture and...

Two powerful trends – the Internet of Things (IoT) and data analytics – are generating lots of press for their industrial and infrastructure applications, writes Rich Quinnell for EE Times. But there is another application space that is quietly...

To hear the early adopters for drone technology tell it, low-flying platforms equipped with multi-spectral sensors can deliver high-resolution field data on everything from the performance of irrigation systems to soil maps that tell growers where and when to...

Ahmedabad, India-based agritech startup MyCrop is currently testing blockchain in the seed supply chain to track its entire supply movement — from seed aggregators, distributors, retailers to farmers, reports Dipen Pradhan for Inc42. The move to implement blockchain is...

Dr. Clarence Swanton, a professor and weed scientist in the department of agriculture at the University of Guelph, believes the key to unlocking greater profitability — while coaxing greater diversity — is through precision agriculture, writes Ralph Pearce on...

The agriculture ministry of Japan has unveiled a plan to promote the spread of drones for agriculture to cope with the aging of farmers and shortages of successors of farms in the country, reports The Japan News. In the plan...

India may be on the threshold of the Second Green Revolution, writes George Leopold for EET India. Crops are being sewn and fertilized using fancy new tractors with cabs that resemble cockpits, gathering and wirelessly transferring field data collected...

Prospera, an Israeli ag-tech company, plans to turn 60,000 irrigation pivots in open fields into artificial intelligence (AI) autonomous growing machines that can operate 24/7, writes Jennifer Kite-Powell on Forbes.com. Through a new partnership with irrigation company Valley, the...

A recent research report predicts that the global smart farming market is expected to touch $23.14 billion by 2022, rising at a compound annual growth rate of 19.3 per cent from 2017 to 2022, notes Chittaranjan Jena, co-founder and...

A precision farming company in Australia is on a mission to put satellite imagery in the palm of your hand, for free, reports Sharon O'Keeffe for the North Queensland Register. Tim Neale, Managing Director of Data Farming, said his company...

The third International VDI Conference on Smart Farming 2019 will be held in Düsseldorf, Germany, May 14-15, 2019. Smart Farming 2019 – hosted by the Association of German Engineers (VDI), one of the largest technical-scientific associations in Europe – is...

The Climate Corporation (Climate), a subsidiary of Bayer, has announced a platform agreement between the company's industry-leading Climate FieldView digital agriculture platform and NAU Country Insurance Company, a QBE Insurance Company. The new agreement between Climate and NAU Country...