Market Watch
August 27, 2020
As a Senior Account Executive for Agworld, talking with growers as well as ag retailers about data collection, data sharing, digital collaboration, and information visualization is something I do every day, writes Ryan Humpert at CropLife. In the last...
Drones | UAVs
August 18, 2020
With powerful capabilities and high-resolution imagery, drone scouting empowers maximized efficiency and visibility to troubled areas within a crop.
Market Watch
August 4, 2020
Indigo Agriculture, a company dedicated to harnessing nature to help farmers sustainably feed the planet, has announced the closing of $360M in additional financing. Combined with $175M in convertible equity announced in January 2020, this brings the company’s total...
Market Watch
August 3, 2020
While the technology is in many ways still nascent, it seems already that only a small few of the world’s commodities have yet to be traded using blockchain, writes Mark Jones at Tech Wire Asia.
Most of these dalliances seem...
Analytics
July 27, 2020
Addressing the grower's true needs and making software easy to use has driven Agrian's product development from the beginning says co-founder and CEO Nishan Majarian, recipient of the 2018 Crop Adviser/Entrepreneur Award in the PrecisionAg Awards of Excellence program
Market Watch
July 25, 2020
As consumers across the country have become more concerned with where their food comes from, and federal, state, and regional regulators have initiated numerous new requirements and rules to help satisfy this need, many in the agricultural community have...
Market Watch
July 10, 2020
Cargill Inc. last week announced it has mapped out its entire supply chain for soybeans in Brazil, where the destruction of forest to make land to grow the crop has produced an environmental conflict with global attention, writes Evan...
Market Watch
July 9, 2020
Growers Edge Financial, Inc. has announced the close of a $40 million Series B round of financing to accelerate the development and market penetration of its innovative financial technology products, solutions and tools for the ag industry. Led by...
Market Watch
June 30, 2020
Taranis has announced its agreement with UPL Ltd., a multinational agrochemical company and one of the five largest agricultural solutions companies worldwide, for exclusive monitoring of UPL’s sugarcane acreage across Brazil. Through its unique FLY UP program, Taranis will...
Market Watch
June 9, 2020
Growers Edge Financial, Inc. and Arva Intelligence have announced a strategic partnership to help farmers become more efficient and profitable by delivering data-backed solutions that remove the financial risk of deploying new technologies. Arva and Growers Edge will jointly...
Data Management
June 2, 2020
Now is the time for farmers and their advisers to start seeing on-farm data as the tool to shape the sustainability initiatives that are being developed by various stakeholders.
Market Watch
May 21, 2020
FMC Corp. has announced the launch of Arc farm intelligence, an exclusive precision agriculture platform that enables growers and advisors to more accurately predict pest pressure before it becomes a problem. Arc farm intelligence is the first mobile platform to...
In-Field Technologies
May 14, 2020
Crop monitoring carried out via satellites needs less human resources and is exceptionally efficient for tracking vast areas.
Digital Farming
May 4, 2020
Contributing writer Scott Speck looks at the three pillars of sustainability and how they can be "supercharged" by going digital in agriculture.
Data Management
April 30, 2020
A recent survey from the Agricultural Data Coalition (ADC) provides insights into where farmers anticipate their data usage trending in the next three to five years.
Market Watch
April 28, 2020
The Dole Food Company, one of the world’s leading fruits and vegetable distributor has decided to join the blockchain bandwagon as it announced its 5-year plan to introduce blockchain-based tagging and food tracing in all its departments by 2025,...
Data Management
April 27, 2020
When evaluating the data policies of existing or potential partners, farmers should ask questions in five key areas, says guest columnist John Raines of The Climate Corporation.
Digital Farming
April 21, 2020
Among the greatest value you can offer your grower customers is helping them navigate that messy middle between the start of a new tech journey and the beginning of a payback.
Data Management
April 16, 2020
Agribusiness companies must build grower confidence in data security while optimizing their sustainability efforts, says contributing writer Kelly Bumpus of Syngenta.
Variable Rate
April 14, 2020
Make each and every choice on your farm a strategic one using VR technology with customized fertility and seeding plans to meet your farm’s production goals now, and for the future.