Market Watch
October 8, 2019
Trimble has announced its next-generation WeedSeeker 2 spot spray system. Building on more than 25 years of experience in agriculture, Trimble's new sensor solution and system provides growers up to 90 percent savings in input costs when targeting and...
Data Management
October 4, 2019
Have you struggled with selecting a farm management system? That's understandable, and you're not alone. Lots of farmers like you need a tech platform that supports their business, but with so many different types of software options out there...
Market Watch
September 9, 2019
Feeding a growing world through innovation. Helping produce higher yields through automation. Enhancing environmental stewardship through data-driven decision making. Empowering economic prosperity by investing in entrepreneurs. These are among the stories featured in "A Power For Good," Deere's annual...
Market Watch
September 5, 2019
It’s hard to open any agricultural website or magazine without reading about ag data, writes Doug Fitch at CropLife. Plenty of new and established companies are able to help growers collect and store this data while some can even...
Market Watch
September 5, 2019
ICL, a leading global specialty minerals and specialty chemicals company, has announced that it will work closely with AWS to accelerate the development of its open digital services platform designed to enhance the capabilities of agronomists and other agriculture...
Market Watch
September 3, 2019
Syngenta and The Cropio Group have announced that Syngenta has completed the acquisition of all relevant assets of The Cropio Group, an ag tech company with a presence in over 50 countries, but with a primary focus in Eastern...
Global Ag Tech Alliance – North America
August 30, 2019
Debate over technology adoption levels has roiled the precision agriculture industry for years. Is technology use increasing? Plateauing? Can we expect precision use to mainstream any time soon? Questions like these ultimately lead to an even bigger one: How...
Digital Farming
August 14, 2019
A major way to improve traceability, sustainability, and quality of goods from a farm is through the adoption of technology, including an integrated farm management platform.
Agriculture is continuously changing through innovation in science and technology....
Market Watch
August 10, 2019
An estimated 168 million tonnes of food is lost or wasted in North America each year, with 49 million tonnes lost or wasted at the pre-harvest stage alone, according to an article at FreshPlaza. Additionally, 20% to 40% of...
Digital Farming
July 23, 2019
Members of AgriHub recently had the opportunity to meet individuals from Agri NEST startups and Business France to talk about the Brazilian agriculture market. Contributing writer Mauricio Nicocelli Netto (sitting) was on hand to learn...
Digital Farming
July 23, 2019
I previously posed the question: Why not just call precision agriculture “precision agriculture”?
Mercifully the majority of you agree with me, if the poll that accompanied the post is any indication. At last count about 80% of poll participants said...
Market Watch
July 16, 2019
While transforming food and agriculture to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals is becoming increasingly urgent, ‘smart farming’ appears to many as an attractive way to achieve sustainability, not least in terms of profit, writes Francesco Ajena at P2P Foundation....
Market Watch
July 11, 2019
“Precision Agriculture is a management strategy that gathers, processes and analyzes temporal, spatial and individual data and combines it with other information to support management decisions according to estimated variability for improved resource use efficiency, productivity, quality, profitability and...
Market Watch
July 2, 2019
WEFARM, a farmer-to-farmer digital network, has expanded operations in Tanzania after helping more than 1.5 million small scale farmers in Kenya and Uganda to share information and knowledge about farming activities.
The General Manager of the digital network platform, Nicholas...
Digital Farming
June 24, 2019
While New Zealand’s agricultural sector is very different from that in other countries, the needs of growers in respect to digital ag are very similar.
What are the big challenges that farmers and agronomists in New...
Digital Farming
June 24, 2019
From ox and plow to the advent of autonomous tractors, farmers have always sought new and more efficient ways to grow crops. The demand for high-quality, protein and nutrient-rich food increases annually as the global population is on pace...
Market Watch
June 14, 2019
Mahindra & Mahindra’s Farm Equipment Sector (FES), has announced an investment of CHF 4.3 million (Rs 30 crore) for an 11.25% stake in Switzerland based agri-technology firm Gamaya SA. Through this investment, Mahindra says it will make superior farming solutions easily accessible...
Market Watch
June 13, 2019
Plant breeding innovations need to be treated differently to GMOs in order to leverage their potential to contribute to sustainability goals, said trade group FEDIOL in a vision document for the EU agri sector released today ahead of its...
Farm to Fork
May 28, 2019
Once known for primarily for its microbial seed treatments, Indigo Ag is building a framework for commodity crop production and marketing designed to shift producer focus away from yield as the primary value generator. It's quite a row to
Drones | UAVs
May 21, 2019
U.S. regulations are finally moving in the right direction for widespread ag drone adoption, allowing the U.S. to finally join places like Japan and China atop the medal podium of drone usage. Photo credit: China...