A New Zealand based scientific traceability company says businesses need to be aware of the risks of counterfeiting and fraud in fresh produce, as agricultural exports de-commoditize in favor of brand premium products, reports Hortidaily. "Australian (and New Zealand) agriculture...

The Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University, in collaboration with Microsoft, has created the Purdue Food and Agricultural Vulnerability Index online dashboard to quantify the potential risk to the supply of agricultural products as a result of COVID-19 farm and...

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...

Raven Industries, Inc. has announced the release of Slingshot Fleet Tracking. Backed by Razor Tracking, the platform allows users to wirelessly track the location and other important information about their trucks, vehicles, trailers, tanks, and other moving assets. With...

A New Zealand ag-tech company says the horticulture and fresh produce industry is heading for a major shift in the coming years, in terms of the take-up of new technology, reports FreshPlaza. Autogrow specializes in the research and development of...

Is a new ‘green revolution' within reach? Agriculture is a multibillion dollar industry and one of the largest in the world, accounting for almost 1% of GDP in the U.K., 6% in the U.S. and 12% in Australia, writes...

Six years ago, the leadership at Ohio cooperative Luckey Farmers, Inc., could see clearly that its business was in need of change, writes Paul Schrimpf at CropLife. Internally, managers and employees were struggling with efficiency and customer management processes...

With movements even within districts restricted, agri-techs like NinjaCart are procuring more from farmers and even moving produce to customers’ homes, writes Ishaan Gera at Financial Express. NinjaCart, for instance, has partnered with Zomato, Swiggy and Dunzo, and has...

Moleaer, a leading nanobubble technology company, is expanding into Latin America, having formed a new distribution partnership with Kapicua to bring its innovative, patented technology to the region’s agriculture industry. Nanobubbles, 2,500 times smaller than a grain of salt, enhance...

Next Instruments Pty Ltd and Trimble have announced that Next Instruments has been chosen as a Trimble Select Business Partner for agriculture. As a Trimble Select Business Partner, Next Instruments’ CropScan 3300H On Combine Analyser and CropScanAg Solutions Mapping...

Trimble has announced that iFoodDecisionSciences, Inc. has acquired Trimble's HarvestMark business, a provider of food traceability and quality inspection solutions. Financial terms were not disclosed. iFoodDS, a leading provider of food safety and process control software solutions, has worked closely...

Growers have traditionally relied on scouts to get the information they need to make decisions, writes David Eddy at Growing Produce. But there are a couple of problems with that. First, the data gathered isn’t always 100% reliable. Second,...

Septentrio has announced a new GNSS*/INS receiver, AsteRx-i D UAS. This multi-frequency receiver combines reliable centimeter-level positioning with 3D orientation, enabling automated navigation of aerial drones and robots. With a high-performance IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit) from Analog Devices integrated...

Malaysia is looking to use blockchain technology and traceability to raise the level of trust in its local palm oil industry, by proving its commitment to transparent, sustainable, and responsible supply chains, reports FoodNavigator-Asia. The Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC)...

Taiwan could be a prime target for Queensland ag-tech exporters – that’s the message in a new report released by TIQ. Opportunities for Queensland businesses in Taiwan’s agtech market examines the pressures driving agricultural change in the Asian nation and how...

DTN, an independent source of insights, analysis, and decision-support solutions, has acquired the Agriculture and Weather Analytics segment from Iteris. The acquisition enables DTN to build upon its expertise in agriculture and deliver new value-driven solutions to producers and...

Developing an “innovation ecosystem” across Canada and increasing the nation’s competitiveness in the global agriculture and agri-food industry are the goals of a new partnership between Bioenterprise Corporation and Farm Credit Canada (FCC), writes Lois Harris at Country Guide. “FCC...

Undoubtedly, the agriculture industry will become even more important these next few decades. Yet, the global farming sector is facing ever-increasing risks as natural disasters become more frequent and disruptive as a result of climate change. What's more, the...

Rise of the machines in modern agriculture is elevating to new levels of importance, especially given the new point of view provided by COVID-19 fallout, reports Growing Produce. The University of North Florida (UNF) College of Computing, Engineering and Construction,...

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,...