In-Field Technologies November 27, 2019 Bringing together some of the smartest minds of the agriculture world in Southeast Asia, Meister Media Worldwide’s first-ever Precision Application Asia event in Bangkok, Thailand, Nov. 5-6, 2019, served as a powerful platform for value chain creation and exchange...
Market Watch October 29, 2019 By SHINE|October 29, 2019 Drones used by farmers have huge global potential due to food safety concerns and the demand for quality produce, agriculture drone vendor XAG told SHINE. XAG's drones are currently used in 38 countries and cover 310 million mu (206,667...
Market Watch October 28, 2019 Several private sector entities with the support from academia from universities across Sri Lanka have embarked on pilot projects to introduce AI (Artificial Intelligence)-based technologies to boost commercial farming, vital to feed the growing population, said Professor in Crop...
Market Watch October 22, 2019 Sri Lanka can make farming more productive using emerging technologies of the so-called fourth industrial revolution (4IR), reports EconomyNext. Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka researchers Manoj Thibbotuwawa and Nimesha Dissanayaka write that rapid population growth has put...
Digital Farming October 17, 2019 Adoption curves of various technologies vary by region because of infrastructure and available service providers. In many parts of Asia, service providers are leapfrogging to cutting-edge application methods. Here’s why Asian agriculture is primed for adoption of precision ag...
Market Watch October 3, 2019 Big commercial drone industry news dropped recently with FAA announcing approval of UPS’ last mile drone delivery business – UPS Flight Forward – for Beyond Visual Line Of Sight (BVLOS) medical supply delivery in North Carolina, writes Matthew Grassi...
Market Watch October 2, 2019 About 60% of the population in Thailand engages in agriculture work, and in rural areas, it is as high as 90% of the population, according to the FAO. This scenario repeats itself in other ASEAN countries and in emerging...
Drones | UAVs September 30, 2019 Bayer and XAG has recently collaborated in Hangzhou, China to host a crop dusting drone demonstration on citrus trees, according to a company press release. Justin Gong, Co-founder and Vice President of XAG, together with Bayer's crop scientists and...
Market Watch September 24, 2019 Post-patent companies are experiencing heightened competition as a result of fewer AIs falling off patent and market saturation of generic products, writes David Frabotta at AgriBusiness Global. New revenue streams are threatened as a glut of generic crop protection...
Drones | UAVs September 17, 2019 Growing up and working in California’s Salinas Valley, Jaclyn Bennett has long heard the complaints from growers who want to use beneficial insects but bemoan the man-hours needed to disperse them in the field, reports David Eddy at Growing...
Drones | UAVs September 10, 2019 China-based XAG has announced it has introduced autonomous drones to improve pest control efficacy against disease caused by fall armyworms, writes Gulli Arnason at Financial News. XAG is among the first to introduce fully autonomous drones in some of the...
Analytics September 9, 2019 Earlier this year scientists revealed the first-ever image captured of a black hole. Thought to be impossible, the feat required the collaboration of more than 350 astronomers over several years, and their efforts recently earned them the Breakthrough Prize...
Drones | UAVs September 5, 2019 At this week’s InterDrone conference in Las Vegas, Michael Ritter of SlantRange gave a great presentation – and explained how drones may be able to completely revolutionize global agriculture, reports Harry McNabb at DroneLife. Imagine aerial data that can tell you much, much...
Drones | UAVs September 2, 2019 Modern and efficient farm equipment lets farmers improve their produce, reduce input costs, reduce work and increase comfort, and more, reports Silicon Canals. Such precision agriculture equipment produces higher yields with reduced pesticides and increases the efficiency of the...
Drones | UAVs August 21, 2019 https://youtu.be/FoIo8RxwloU Rantizo’s drone-spraying platform is growing in broad-area crops in the U.S., where many said it wasn’t feasible. We talk to CEO Michael Ott to understand how this emerging application method is getting traction with retailers and growers at any...
Drones | UAVs August 20, 2019 A new special report from the Editors of PrecisionAg and AgriBusiness Global highlights trends and innovation behind the rapidly maturing space of drone application technology. Download The State of Precision Drone Application to get exclusive insights on: Global investment trends...
Drones | UAVs August 15, 2019 https://youtu.be/-4BGSGeoE90 In this episode of Precision Perspectives, Precision Ag Market Development Director David Frabotta discusses Ipsos research with Jessica Chung, Co-Lead at the Center of Excellence for Commercial Drone Adoption at Ipsos Business Consulting....
Drones | UAVs August 15, 2019 A recent article by CIO Australia outlines how the rapid development and deployment of technology-based systems are doing more than create new businesses, they are creating completely new industries around agriculture productivity, traceability, and decision support. Several of the technologies...
Drones | UAVs July 24, 2019 UAV-IQ has announced that it is offering aerial biocontrol, a new integrated pest management (IPM) service that uses drones to release beneficial biological control agents bred by Koppert Biological Systems, according to a press release on PR Newswire. Drone-based...
In-Field Technologies July 16, 2019 Emerging precision technologies – especially drones/UAVs by air and “see & spray” units by ground – have the potential to revolutionize application and disrupt the entire production-to-distribution channel for crop input products. This is especially true of drone application...
