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...

At the 2019 Commodity Classic in Orlando, FL, this week, Veris Technologies introduced the world's first real-time sensor suite that measures four critical soil features while planting or tilling, according to a press release from the company. The iScan+ optimizes implement...

The drone-deployable, multi spectral sensing unit that will capture the insights that power Syngenta and Sony's new Smart Agriculture Solution. As part of the 2019 Commodity Classic Convention & Expo in Orlando, FL, this week, Syngenta...

Today, xarvio Digital Farming Solutions by BASF launched the xarvio Field Manager for the U.S. market at Commodity Classic tradeshow in Orlando, FL, according to a press release distributed by the Associated Press (AP). The new digital product supports growers...

Let's look now at some major attributes of successful CEOs of agtech startups. The insights herein are from an interview conducted by Donald R. Marvin on Forbes.com with two leading McKinsey & Company consultants who advise agtech startups, Lutz...

The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) has named The Praxidyn Mixmate Fusion a winner of a 2019 AE50 award. AE50 awards honor the year’s most innovative designs in engineering products or systems for the food and agriculture...

Plant ’19 is getting closer every day and I’m sure that many growers throughout the Midwest will be working hard to ensure that their planting equipment is ready for another period of intense use. In Australia, Harvest ’19 for...

Farm Dog, John Deere, and ADAMA recently previewed their mobile-to-sprayer integrated solution to 750 agriculture professionals at the 2019 Develop with Deere Conference in Chicago from January 23-24. The solution increases labor efficiency on the farm by simplifying information...

Valmont Industries, Inc., a leading global provider of engineered products and services for infrastructure and irrigation equipment for agriculture and the parent company of Valley Irrigation, and Prospera Technologies Inc., a leading Israeli machine vision and artificial intelligence (AI)...

Corteva Agriscience announced today a global agreement with DroneDeploy to use DroneDeploy in its fleet of more than 400 DJI drones across the Company’s global Seed Production and Supply Chain, as well as its Pioneer Strategic Account Management and...

Instagram models and pizza - strange bedfellows perhaps back in the Nineties - but in today’s anything-goes, Internet-driven society? Like milk and cookies, my friends…. Here’s another coupling to add to the strange bedfellows list: Domino’s Pizza and Artificial...

https://youtu.be/nKAz-g7MAxs John Deere's new Farm Forward video is a vision of how technology could drive increased productivity to feed a growing population. It was created to inspire conversations and help farmers visualize what the future of their farm will be....

iUNU, the computer vision company that helps growers apply artificial intelligence and machine learning in the greenhouse, has raised $7.5 million from BootstrapLabs and NCT Ventures, among others, according to an article on GreenhouseGrower.com. iUNU has grown significantly in...

Monash University engineers are working with Australian farmers to help them improve irrigation practices, reduce water use, and maximize crop harvest by using autonomous drone technology, according to an article by Manufacturers' Monthly. As severe drought continues to devastate farmland...

“Smart farming,” which utilizes cutting-edge robotics and artificial intelligence, could hold the key to an agricultural resurgence in a nation of graying farmers and a general population reluctant to toil in the soil, according to an article by The...

Editor's note: Poland has more than one million farms, one of the highest totals in Europe. These farms vary considerably in size depending on their region, which Stanislaw Samborksi, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, says is a big reason why...