A new study from the University of Illinois explores how machine learning can help improve forecasting when used appropriately.

Using advanced computer vision and machine learning, the agricultural platform is expanding Wavemaker Labs’ AgTech portfolio.

With depleting resources, reducing land sizes and increase in input and labor costs, combined with uncertainties around weather and market prices, agriculture in India has become a profession that is more risk intensive, writes Anthony Devassy at The Financial...

With advances in agricultural technology, growers and equipment manufacturers continue to pursue precise application of water. At a time when growers are expected to produce more while using less, it’s easy to see why. In the U.S., agriculture uses...

At its recent annual Ignite event in Orlando, FL, Microsoft announced that Azure FarmBeats, a project that until now was mostly a research effort, will be available as a public preview and in the Azure Marketplace, writes Frederic Lardinois...

Microsoft Research (MSR) has high hopes for digital farming. Microsoft Research's Kenneth Tran (second from left) led Team Sonoma, which won the first International Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge by successfully growing greenhouse cucumbers in the Netherlands for...

BASF Venture Capital and Canada’s TELUS Ventures are among the lead investors in a series B investment round for British startup Hummingbird Technologies, a global leader in advanced crop analytics, according to a release at Globe Newswire. Other main...

The 'Vegebot' is a vegetable-picking robot that uses machine learning to identify and harvest a commonplace, but challenging, agricultural crop, according to an article at FreshPlaza. The bot was developed by a team at the University of Cambridge, was...

Deere & Company has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Blue River Technology, an agriculture technology company specializing in machine learning. “We welcome the opportunity to work with a Blue River Technology team that is highly skilled and intensely dedicated...