Industry News
February 28, 2019
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...
Digital Farming
February 27, 2019
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...
Digital Farming
February 27, 2019
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...
Market Watch
February 27, 2019
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...
Market Watch
February 26, 2019
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...
Market Watch
February 26, 2019
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...
Market Watch
February 26, 2019
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...
Analytics
February 25, 2019
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)...
Drones | UAVs
February 25, 2019
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...
Data Management
February 22, 2019
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...
Analytics
February 21, 2019
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....
Market Watch
February 21, 2019
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...
Market Watch
February 20, 2019
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...
Market Watch
February 19, 2019
“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...
Market Watch
February 15, 2019
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...
Analytics
February 15, 2019
FluroSat, Australia’s leading crop health analytics startup, recently led a successful bid with commercial partners Agworld, PCT Agcloud, AgLink Australia, and CSIRO for a A$3M Cooperative Research Centres Project (CRC-P) grant. The aim of the grant funding is to...
Market Watch
February 14, 2019
About 40 years ago, when Brad Parkinson and his team of civil engineers were putting together the first specifications for a radar signal called GPS, he sketched out some predictions of how their new technology might be used in...
Industry News
February 14, 2019
Agriculture, one of the world’s oldest vocations, is also one that continues to reinvent itself with new technology, according to an article on AgDaily.com. From the introduction of the steel plow to automated tractors to modern fertilizer applications, technology...
Market Watch
February 13, 2019
A flood of precision agriculture technology to America’s farm fields over the past two decades has created an abundance of information, a mixed blessing for such agencies as the USDA as it tracks the country’s crop production, according to...
Industry News
February 12, 2019
Machine Sync greatly simplifies harvest by automating the combine unloading process, allowing the operator to focus on harvesting the crop or other machine functions.
To further enhance the automation, documentation, functionality and security of its Generation...