Industry News
November 14, 2018
Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture and Land O'Lakes SUSTAIN have announced the forthcoming availability of Field to Market's sustainability metrics within the new Truterra Insights Engine from Land O'Lakes SUSTAIN in mid-December. Land O'Lakes is the...
Digital Farming
November 14, 2018
With an increasing number of technology providers offering their services to growers with the aim of solving very specific problems or offering service in a small niche of agriculture, I see more and more ‘silos’ forming in the ag-tech...
Industry News
November 8, 2018
AgJunction Inc., the Autosteering Company, announced the relocation of its corporate headquarters from Hiawatha, KS to Scottsdale, AZ. The move, effective immediately, is expected to add jobs in engineering, program management, finance, and customer support.
“Upon the sale of the...
Industry News
November 7, 2018
Agworld and PCT Agcloud have announced the integration of Satamap into Agworld. This integration will offer Agworld users the opportunity to view the latest Satamap Vegetation Index (SVI) of their farm on Agworld’s web and mobile platform. SVI is...
Market Watch
November 6, 2018
Agriculture has seen major strides in technology over recent years, and as the original entrepreneurs, farmers are always ready to test new methods and tools that could help improve yield and profitability, while simultaneously enhancing efforts to safeguard the...
Guidance
November 5, 2018
Today, Ag Leader unveiled new guidance and steering solutions including a dual-antenna automated steering system and the latest in GNSS technology to be added to its already high-end precision agriculture guidance and steering line.
“We strive to provide a full...
Connectivity
November 5, 2018
Friday morning’s big news in precision ag – the forming of a strategic partnership between Canadian ag tech agronomy provider Farmers Edge (Winnipeg, MB) and international equipment giant CNH Industrial (CNHi) – confirmed a long standing suspicion many in...
Connectivity
November 2, 2018
CNH Industrial and Farmers Edge have entered into a strategic digital agriculture agreement that will deliver a portfolio of connectivity and agronomic solutions to Case IH customers. Through this agreement, CNH Industrial will provide Case IH customers with access to FarmCommand, a unique...
Industry News
October 31, 2018
CropLogic Ltd., a New Zealand company and international provider of digital agricultural technology and agronomy services for growers of irrigated crops, has announced that following the success of its recently opened regional sales office in Mildura, Victoria, Australia in...
Industry News
October 26, 2018
The Librarian of Congress and US Copyright Office just proposed new rules that will give consumers and independent repair experts wide latitude to legally hack embedded software on their devices in order to repair or maintain them, according to...
Analytics
October 25, 2018
AgEagle announced an expansion of the existing partnership between Agribotix, an AgEagle company, and The Climate Corporation, a subsidiary of Bayer, to introduce advanced aerial imagery analytics to farmers.
Through the AgEagle platform, farmers are able to utilize aerial imagery...
Connectivity
October 24, 2018
Some insights about the Brazilian Conference on Precision Agriculture 2018 (ConBAP 2018) were provided in the recent article "ConBAP 2018 Highlights Precision Agriculture in Brazil." I have attended the conference in previous editions, but unfortunately I could not attend...
Connectivity
October 24, 2018
Editor's note: Proagrica, an international provider of connectivity solutions specifically for the agriculture industry, recently examined the key challenges and pain points that businesses face in the agriculture supply chain — and the benefits gained — by adopting digital systems.
Challenge...
Market Watch
October 24, 2018
When farmers think about precision agriculture most will automatically think about the geospatially based sub-field agronomic management side of "precision agriculture". With increasingly compressed margins due to higher input costs, low commodity prices, and challenging weather conditions, linking sound...
Market Watch
October 18, 2018
"From Farms to Incubators: Telling the stories of minority women entrepreneurs in agtech in the Salinas Valley and beyond" will be shown as part of the Regeneration Rising Happy Hour Series sponsored by The Impact Hub San Francisco and...
Market Watch
October 17, 2018
Contributing writer Jacob Maurer was granted the opportunity to be a decision-maker as part of a collaborative team in charge of a 90-acre research farm in North Dakota’s southern Red River Valley.
It’s one thing to...
Analytics
October 16, 2018
There are some commonly spoken narratives that are actually false, at least as stated in the exact words used, that erode trust in weather forecasting. For example, just recently a friend mentioned how “it seems clear, at least to...
Drones | UAVs
October 15, 2018
Prunes are European plums with a high sugar content that allows them to dry without fermenting around the pit and are almost all marketed dried, as prunes or dried plums. California produces 96% of the prunes grown in the...
Global Ag Tech Alliance – North America
October 15, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWlDIOJqxZE
Joel Wipperfurth of Winfield United discusses ag technology trends and topics during the 2018 InfoAg Conference....
Global Ag Tech Alliance – North America
October 15, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO6HV0mIwJM
Allan Fetters of Simplot Grower Solutions discusses ag technology trends and topics across the industry, and within the company, during last month’s InfoAg Conference....