Sustainable precision agriculture is this century's most valuable innovation in farm management that is based on using information and communication technologies, notes The Hans India. India has many hurdles to adoption including farm size and educational and economic challenges. However,...

A senior engineer at John Deere has been honored with a prestigious prize in recognition of his contribution to advancing digital farming technologies, reports IVT International. Receiving the Grashof Commemorative Medal from the Association of German Engineers (VDI), Dr-Ing habil....

IBM is hoping Watson can improve the future of food and crop years as it launched a global version of its cognitive tools for agriculture, ZDNet reports. Watson Decision Platform for Agriculture aims to combine predictive analytics, artificial intelligence, weather data,...

A startup is putting its robot-grown produce at one grocery store in California starting with three varieties of leafy greens, and robotic farming could help the agriculture industry deal with one of the worst labor shortages facing the...

Delair today introduced a new model of its popular long-range UAV, the Delair DT26, which offers an easy-to-integrate architecture for adding user-specified sensors and other payloads to the platform. The Delair DT26 Open Payload model features a removable container...

Even in the worst case scenario – if just 10% of farmers use the technology – it would still be worth the massive sums the Government is investing, Communications Minister Richard Bruton has claimed, according to a report from...

Robots are taking over farms faster than anyone saw coming, reports The Star Online in Malaysia. The first fully autonomous farm equipment is becoming commercially available, which means machines will be able to completely take over a multitude of tasks....

A new report by market analysts and consultants Tractica has said that global shipments of robots designed for agricultural use are set to rise to a value of $87.9 billion by 2025, reports TechHQ. Karen Lewis, a tree fruit specialist at...

Robots are taking over farms faster than anyone saw coming, reports the Los Angeles Times. The first fully autonomous farm equipment is becoming commercially available, which means machines will be able to completely take over a multitude of tasks. Tractors...

A newly developed dexterous robot, which is equipped with flexible robotic fingers, could prove invaluable to both warehouses and agriculture, Verdict in the U.K. reports. Developed by Cambridge Consultants, the robot, which is named Hank, has a novel sensory system...

Building on the crop emergence and stand count capabilities released earlier this year, Tel Aviv-based precision agriculture company Taranis recently announced a new feature on its platform -- advanced weed identification and herbicide prescriptions at scale

A crop-spraying drone has taken its first legal flight in South Africa - a big breakthrough which could radically transform farming in South Africa, according to Jay Caboz with Business Insider South Africa (SA). According to Caboz, after a lengthy...

A Toyota Motor Corporation drone will next month be available to Rwandan farmers and is expected to shift perceptions on farming while also making it more fun and high-tech, according to a post on Taarifa.rw. According to a Taarifa staff...

With almost all available arable land in the Americas, Europe and Asia already productively farmed using the most developed agricultural techniques, Africa, with 60 percent of the world’s uncultivated arable land, presents a major opportunity to meet the 70...

FFA members across the country will have access to some of the latest on-farm technology as part of a new effort backed by computer software giant Microsoft, reports Matthew Weaver at Capital Press. The Microsoft FarmBeats Student Kit includes preconfigured...

Dr. Allan Gray, executive director of the Purdue University Center for Food and Agricultural Business, is experiencing first-hand how Brazil is revolutionizing the use of drones in agriculture and taking push-button technology to the next level, writes Purdue University...

Already established on North America, Europe and Asia, Google’s artificial intelligence research program is now being rolled out in Africa: Ghana and Google have cooperated to open the first African AI laboratory, according to an article at Leaders League. The...

What do you need to do or know about the latest technology for agriculture? What will it take to position yourself for success? These and other topics were part of the Produce Marketing Association’s (PMA) sixth Tech Knowledge conference...

A new mechanical weeding machine may help change the face of fallow weed control across Australia’s broadacre grains industry, according to an article by the Integrated Weed Management Resource Center. The Weed Chipper, developed by agricultural engineers and researchers from...