With increasing population, urbanization, and contagious depletion of natural resources, there has to be a paradigm shift in farmer’s perception from production to productivity and to profitability, according to an article at Down To Earth. In this present scenario,...

Indian agriculture-tech start-ups have turned out to be the darling of investors in recent times, with the sector receiving more than USD $248 million in funding over the first six months of this year, registering a whopping 300% growth...

Iteris, Inc., the global leader in applied informatics for transportation and agriculture, has announced that KWS SAAT (KWS), one of the world’s leading plant breeding companies, will add Iteris ClearAg environmental intelligence to its digital farming platform. Under the terms...

Deere, the giant maker of tractors and combines, plans to cut costs as U.S. farmers continue to grapple with trade and weather disruptions. Chief Financial Officer Ryan Campbell said on the company’s third-quarter earnings call that the company would examine...

Expanding wireless internet access in rural areas will continue to fuel the truly game-changing advances being made by precision agriculture, writes National Grange President Betsy Huber at Agri-Pulse. These include new ways to grow crops using less water, seed,...

SVG Ventures and Produce Marketing Association (PMA) have entered a three-year strategic partnership to connect PMA growers with cutting-edge technology, according to an article at FreshPlaza. SVG Ventures will lead panel conversations on AgriFood and AgTech at PMA’s annual...

Food security is a global problem that requires a global solution, posts Miriam McNabb at DroneLife. An international group of researchers led by Dr. Stanley Best, Director Nacional Programa Agricultura de Precisión of INIA Quilamap in Chile, is tackling...

South Australian satellite communications company Myriota and Queensland ag-tech business Goanna Ag have partnered to develop the ‘everywhere’ solution they say will unlock the power of remote monitoring at a price and scale never seen before, writes Andrew Spence...

Blockchain might be best-known for disrupting the financial sector, thanks to Bitcoin and more recently, Facebook’s Libra, according to an article at Scitech Europa. Yet there are scores of other industries ripe for transformation, and smallholder farming could be...

Toronto-based Deveron UAS Corp. ,  a leading agriculture digital services and analytics provider in North America, has entered into an agreement to acquire Kansas City, MO-based digital agriculture provider Atlas Team. The acquisition will allow Deveron to continue to...

While some view automation as a way to drive innovation in growing municipalities, in Arizona’s farming fields the technology is also helping researchers break new ground. Arizona 360 saw what role automation has in modern-day farming at the Maricopa Agricultural...

Kenyan agri-tech startup Shamba Records has built a blockchain-based platform that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and big data to collect farmers’ harvest records, process payments and issue credit, writes Tom Jackson at Disrupt Africa. Founded in 2017 and already used...

India currently hosts more than 450 start-ups in the agritech sector, according to the National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) report that was released on Monday. According to the report, Agritech in India – Emerging Trends in 2019, the...

Over the past few years, drones have really taken off, going from a pastime for flight enthusiasts to a not-uncommon household gadget, writes Adi Pick at CTech. But the potential for the small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) does not...

Mang Vicente “Vic” Berdan, a 59-year-old farmer from Tanay, Rizal, is not new to Facebook. His cover photo shows him and his wife harvesting crops from their farm. The couple also actively replies to friends who comment on their...

Agriculture is constantly inundated with new technologies, and sorting through this array of products — what fits, what doesn’t — can be both challenging and perplexing. The Illinois Soybean Association recently hosted its new Tech Connect event that featured ag...

India’s growing agricultural-technology segment is likely to record more mid-stage funding transactions and strategic deals in coming years, reports Joseph Rai at VCCircle, as investors look to back entrepreneurs trying to solve pressing problems in the critical farm sector,...

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...

Ag Leader has announced a limited beta release of a new grain cart connectivity feature, CartACE. Powered by Ag Leader's InCommand display, CartACE gives the grain cart operator assistance while unloading on-the-go. “We know that the grain cart seat cannot...

Ontera Inc. and BASF have announced a research collaboration to detect diseases and resistances in plants leveraging Ontera’s molecular diagnostic platform, according to a news release at Business Wire. The platform analyzes and quantifies multiple characteristics in less than...