Jeremy Leifker welcomes attendees to the 2019 Develop With Deere Conference Jan. 23, 2019, at the Chicago Sheraton Grand in downtown Chicago, IL. (Photo Courtesy - AgNewsWire/ZimmComm) The wide, wacky world of machine and data interconnectivity...

How far are we from a computer being able to decide what variety or hybrid should be planted in a field, how it is fertilized, and prescribe crop protection chemicals needed? The promise of artificial intelligence (AI) has been...

Washington State University (WSU) scientist Manoj Karkee was recently named a 2019 Pioneer for his work in artificial intelligence and internet of things by Connected World magazine, according to an article on GrowingProduce.com. Among his projects, Karkee is building...

We know precision agriculture is going to be a key component of the future of the fruit and nut industries. It’s no secret that labor is becoming harder to come by and growers are increasingly turning to automation to...

The third International Forum of Agricultural Robotics (FIRA) in Toulouse, France offered an ideal venue for the robotics industry to showcase its latest technology — and prove its value. In a clear sign that agriculture’s continuing...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a technology that exhibits behavior that could be interpreted as human intelligence. Can we apply artificial intelligence in agriculture? Can a computer be better than man in making decisions related to other living organisms in...

Melissa Brandao, a former Apple engineer, wanted to find ways to give back to her rural agricultural community in southern Oregon. Rather than traditional farming, though, she began designing robots to provide farmers with extra sets of eyes, ears...

As the winter lettuce production capital of the country, Yuma, AZ is a hotbed of activity in the fall, winter, and early spring. The University of Arizona’s Yuma Center of Excellence in Desert Agriculture (YCEDA) joined the fray this...

https://youtu.be/xXDcZCDaIek A Purdue University professor has built an innovative handheld sensor that gives plant scientists and farmers a more precise way of measuring the health of crops while gathering up-to-the-minute data that state and federal officials and others will find...

When you think about artificial intelligence (AI), you probably don't imagine using it for a farm. IBM is bringing data and AI together with the global release of the Watson Decision Platform for Agriculture to help growers makes better...

  InfoAg 2018 - Union Station, St. Louis, MO. InfoAg, precision farming’s annual mid-summer blowout, is about a week in the rearview as I type this, a hazy Midwestern summer morning underway here in Ohio. Seven days later,...

The world of technology-based solutions has been increasingly flooded with buzzwords like “analytics”, “big data”, and “Internet of Things”. In the past few years, the availability of cost-effective, large-scale cloud computing and open-source scientific programming libraries has led to...

“Agritech” at one time would have meant new equipment such as tractors and combine harvesters, but today it refers to the wave of digital innovation sweeping through agriculture, writes Lachlan Colquhoun on CDOTrends.com. So far, that has extended to Big...

After graduating from IIT-Madras, the first thing that Vivek Rajkumar did was to buy four acres near Thiruvananthapuram and start farming, according to an article on India's TheHinduBusinessLine.com. He was trying to cultivate paddy and grow banana. His neighbours...

One of the pioneers in deep learning, Dr. Yoshua Bengio of the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms presented “From Data to Decisions with Artificial Intelligence” at the 14th International Conference on Precision Agriculture in Montreal,...

We live in an exciting time in agriculture. Not only is technology advancing rapidly, but the understanding and comprehension of technology and data is becoming easier to decode and decipher. By 2050, the population of Earth will amass 9.7...

Bottom line instead of brand loyalty. Tractors and harvesters will look more like computers. Data will drive productivity. These are just a few of the realities that equipment manufacturers will have to contend with over the next 25 years, according...

One of my dad’s favorite, albeit borrowed, sayings was, “Act like you’ve been there before.” He was mostly referring to NFL players who showboat after scoring touchdowns (think Deion “Primetime” Sanders or Billy “White Shoes” Johnson). And forget about today’s...

Marvel’s Iron Man suit might seem an unlikely source of inspiration for growers, writes Joseph Byrum on AgFunderNews.com. Once the otherwise ordinary engineer Tony Stark puts on the suit, he gains all of the powers of a true superhero....

In addition to manufacturing weather stations, Pessl has developed several other exciting sensor technologies for use in agriculture. John Deere is best known for its line of tractors, combines, sprayers, and implements. However, in an effort...