Earlier this month, a Russian agtech startup called Intterra entered into a partnership with global agribusiness Syngenta to use its digital platform in Russia, connecting more than 100 farmers across 2 million hectares (nearly 5 million acres) of cropland in 2019...

Leading the way in using drive increasingly sophisticated data and analytics tools to drive efficiencies and cut waste in agriculture and food production is John Deere, writes futurist Bernard Marr on Forbes.com. The 180-year-old manufacturer of farming and industrial machinery...

Australia gets a lot of things right when it comes to agricultural research and development (R&D), writes Anthill magazine. However, what’s missing from the country's strong R&D presence is the ability to commercialize: taking R&D and turning it into real-world...

Around the world, food security ranks high up on the governments’ development agenda, writes Adhere Cavince on Standard Digital. In Kenya, the Jubilee administration has set out an ambitious plan to soar production of food crops such as maize,...

Mauricio Nicocelli Netto and his colleagues from IMAmt got a first-hand look at the Swarmbot 5, which started tests this week all over Australia. In the last week of February, me and two colleagues from Brazil's...

The MicaSense RedEdge-MX multi spectral sensor senseFly and MicaSense today announce a new dual drone and integrated sensor solution for in-depth crop analysis—the senseFly eBee X with MicaSense RedEdge-MX. “We know from agricultural customers such as agronomists,...

The end of the world is coming … eventually. Shortly before his death last year, famed physicist Stephen Hawking left us with several rather grim predictions for the future of Earth and life on it. At the top of...

It is one of the marvels of human innovation but artificial intelligence (AI) offers a tough competition to us, writes Rajesh Aggrawal on BusinessWorld.in. The days of speculating rain and sunshine may soon fade with artificial intelligence’s capability to...

The robotic revolution in agriculture is here, writes Travis King on FarmWeekly.com/au, and it is accessible, according to a pioneer of robotic farming, Andrew Bate, SwarmFarm. Bate farms at Emerald, in Central Queensland, in a family farming operation that grows...

Unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs, which are more popular as drones, are evolving from specialist gadgets to consumer electronics items on the one hand and industrial tools on the other, writes Fan Feifei on ChinaDaily.com.cn. In the process, they are...

Image Credit: AgNewsWire/Chuck Zimmerman A little over a week and a half ago, the 2019 Commodity Classic took over the sprawling Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL, for the annual celebration of American farmers and...

Geoff Mackey, corporate affairs and sustainability director, BASF, speaks with Ian Welsh about the importance for agriculture’s supply chains of efficiency to maximize outputs while minimizing inputs, and how the use of GPS, monitoring and drone technology, for example,...

The YaraIrix system includes a free-to-download app (for Android & iOS), which uses the smartphone camera to determine nitrogen demands of different crops in early growth stages, writes John Williams on WorldFertilizer.com. For later growth stages, the app is supplemented...

Farmers are now able to access all their precision farming needs in one place – regardless of the brands in their machinery fleet – following the introduction of Trimble’s Vantage network to the U.K., writes Ken Fletcher on TheScottishFarmer.co.uk. This...

The Central-West of Brazil struggles a lot with climate issues. There is an increasing need to take better care of the soil, since good soil fertility can help the plant overcome a period of climatic stress. Therefore, the demand for...

The Agricultural Price Commission in India has roped in computer major IBM to assess the real-time situation of cultivated land, crop health, and also project potential yield to avoid price crash with the help of precision farming, writes Chiranjeevi...

AgGateway's ADAPT and ISOXML Plugin have been awarded the 2019 Davidson Prize, selected as one of the top three innovations of 2019 by the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) and the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE)....

Sentera announces the release of the 2019 PHX fixed-wing drone, with updates that deliver our customers' most-requested features. PHX has been equipped with a new, longer-range high-speed datalink, an omnidirectional antenna system, and an upgraded, higher-capacity battery. Imaging and...

Farm Market iD has now added on-farm grain storage data to their powerful database, built on more than 900 million acres of land and 34 million farm fields, which are linked to 2.4 million farm owners and operators. Over 900,000...

Autopilot systems, GPS receivers, and mapping, yield monitor systems, drones, NDVI imaging, weed sensors, automatic section cutting, variable dosing, AI, blockchain, big data... Even pioneers of direct seeding could not have imagined, 30 years ago, so many technical terms...