Market Watch
September 20, 2018
Harvest time has taken on a new meaning for some Wabash Valley farmers, and Bobbi Hunt-Kincaid hopes her family’s first Gift of Grain will be the beginning of a new fundraising trend for Ivy Tech Foundation, writes Lisa Trigg...
Analytics
September 20, 2018
According to the United Nations, 9.6 billion people will live on planet Earth by 2050. Feeding these mouths will require simultaneously meeting three great needs: quantity, environmental, and cultural. The World Resources Institute (WRI) forecasts that we will have...
Data Management
September 18, 2018
As a provider of weather analysis and forecast services to the agricultural industry, one of the most common questions I get asked is, “How accurate are your precipitation estimates compared to a gauge?” Earlier this year, I wrote a...
Market Watch
September 17, 2018
When it comes to women-led agtech companies the funding discussion never seems to cease.
In June after the The New Food Economy-sponsored screening of “From Farms to Incubators” (a mini-documentary that I directed that tells the stories of minority women...
Analytics
September 17, 2018
Until recently, using agricultural apps and software was a rare practice among growers.
This is now changing. The mass adoption of smart devices in the recent few years brought a huge change in the way growers all around the world...
Data Management
September 14, 2018
Harvest is progressing across most parts of the U.S. and those growers who aren’t already harvesting are gearing up to start soon. In a few months, the crops will have been harvested, the fields will be bare, and the...
Industry News
September 14, 2018
The newest development from the ongoing John Deere-Granular product development and marketing collaboration is Profit Maps, now available to farmers in the John Deere Operations Center. Profit Maps is a free tool to help farmers view average cost, revenue...
Drones | UAVs
September 13, 2018
WingtraOne offers UAV pilots a reliable drone capable of covering acres, operating in challenging conditions, and producing great imagery in a user-friendly package, according to contributing writer and licensed drone pilot Nate Dorsey.
For the every-day...
Market Watch
September 12, 2018
Editor's note: Venky Ramachandran is a contributing writer for PrecisionAg.com's sister site, AgriBusinessGlobal.com. This article was originally published on LinkedIn.
Now, when we work with this question, depending on where the stress is placed, it contains many questions — all of...
Connectivity
September 11, 2018
Valley Irrigation, an industry leader in smart irrigation solutions, has announced enhancements to its remote management technologies.
Multi-Year Licensing
Valley offers multi-year licensing plans for ICON Link devices connecting to AgSense.
In response to widespread customer demand, Valley...
Connectivity
September 10, 2018
Building on the success of its Reflex Variable Rate Fertigation system, Agri-Inject has taken fluid injection to the next level with ReflexCONNECT, putting fluid injection at the operator’s fingertips. Like the original Reflex system, ReflexCONNECT provides fully programmable variable...
Analytics
September 10, 2018
Soil analytics company Teralytic has completed the Ag Data Transparent certification, affirming that their data use is private, secure, and transparent. Teralytic, which recently released the world’s first wireless NPK sensor in their comprehensive soil probes, joins companies like...
Market Intelligence
September 10, 2018
Earlier this year, I compiled a list of the 25 best colleges for precision agriculture. It was quite the process. It required gathering invaluable input from industry experts and conducting extensive Internet research, as well as surveying the heads...
Connectivity
September 6, 2018
Raven Industries and Topcon Agriculture announced today a licensing agreement for Topcon Agriculture’s use of the Slingshot Application Programming Interface (API) in its various software platforms. The Slingshot API is a software-to-software interface that benefits the end-user by providing...
Analytics
September 5, 2018
Years ago if we would have been told computers, data, and technology would be scattered around every farm there may have been a push back. Today, as we look at adoption of technology, some paradigms continue to vary in...
Drones | UAVs
September 5, 2018
senseFly today reportedly sets a new standard in mapping tools with the launch of the eBee X.
Launched with the promise that “it’s not about the drone,” but instead about overcoming business challenges, the eBee X, part of the Parrot...
Data Management
September 5, 2018
Former Monsanto President (now Bayer CropScience Chief Operating Office) Brett Begemann’s opening salvo during his first appearance at a Farm Progress Show (FPS) donning the Bayer Baby Blue summed up the tone and tenor of this year’s FPS rather...
Market Watch
September 5, 2018
Agricultural experts at a Houston conference praised the advancements in unmanned aerial vehicles, sensors, and data-collecting technology used in precision crop production research, but said there are also challenges in how to process vast amounts of information and translate...
Digital Farming
September 5, 2018
I recently attended Strider Day in São Paulo, an event hosted by Brazilian agtech company Strider. The event offered two days (August 30-31) of lectures and debates about the relevance and impact of technology on the agricultural revolution in...
Industry News
September 5, 2018
Agworld, a global leader in farm management software and collaborative data solutions, has announced the appointment of Mike Betts as VP of U.S. Business Development, LeeAnn Murphy as VP of U.S. Operations, and Reinder Prins as Marketing Manager. The...