Here's an inside look at how three agtech companies are using distinct approaches to offering imagery services for fruit and nut growers.

Over the next several years, Verdant Robotics aims to deliver complete robotics solutions globally.

The Georgia Tech Research Institute has developed an intelligent robot designed to handle the human-based tasks of thinning and pruning peach trees.

When Applied Fruit Crop Physiologist Robinson speaks of precision pruning, he does so with passion.

Learn how The Morningstar Company is using new ag technologies based on AI to help improve farming decisions.

More growers continue to adopt precision ag tools, according to a recent survey by American Fruit Grower and Western Fruit Grower magazines.

As a pioneer of precision technology in the field of viticulture, Terry Bates hears it all the time from data-fearing growers, writes Thomas Skernivitz at Growing Produce. “I have all of this information and all of these pretty maps sitting...

Munckhof Fruit Tech Innovators maintains its leading position by applying the most efficient spraying techniques for fruit tree cultivation. Munckhof recently made the option of precision farming available for all its spraying solutions. This innovation is the result of...

In talking with growers this season from his base in the Pacific Northwest (PNW), Gregg Marrs could feel tensions rising as the crops continued, reports Growing Produce. “Our growers are most concerned about enough labor to harvest their crops,” says...

The average sprayer found in U.S. orchards, vineyards, and fields is about 20 years old, making the field ripe for advancement, writes David Eddy at Growing Produce. Several companies have accepted the challenge, though they have approached it in...

The fruit industry has become very complex with the amount of data available from packing and cooling facilities plus increasingly strict export regulations, according to FreshPlaza. “You have to be able to give simple answers to complex questions,” says...

In tree fruits, precision orchard management and mechanization are natural associations, writes Gregory Lang at Growing Produce. Precision orchard management is about quantification to make optimal decisions, such as: How many leaves are needed to grow a sweet cherry...

From time to time, we all can use some help with counting, reports Growing Produce. Citrus growers take time to count trees each season for crop insurance purposes. And with hurricane season upon us, getting an accurate count is crucial....

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,...

The COVID-19 outbreak has brought a lot of challenges to vegetable and fruit growers, reports FreshPlaza. So what issues have they encountered in terms of cultivation and marketing? Recently, Horti China launched a series of "Hort China Talk" interviews and...

Aerobotics technology has processed more than 5 million trees, 50,000 acres of groves and 15% of all citrus in Florida. These numbers are climbing ahead of the approaching mid-April deadline for growers to have their tree census data submitted...

Being the only Part 107 FAA drone operator here at Meister Media Worldwide, I often get invited by the various editors of the many ag markets we cover to write something, anything, about drones, writes Matthew Grassi at Growing Produce. I...

It used to be almost a joke, seeing some variation on the expression, “labor pains,” used by a new editor here at Meister Media Worldwide, writes David Eddy at Growing Produce. We cover the gamut of specialty crops, among other...

At $64.7 billion, specialty crops comprised one-third of U.S. crop receipts and one-sixth of receipts for all U.S. agricultural products in 2017. USDA funded $287.7 million towards 213 specialty crop automation or mechanization projects from 2008 – 2018. Title VII...

The influential VISION Conference threw a spotlight on the innovations fruit and vegetable growers should watch for this coming decade, writes Matthew Grassi at Growing Produce. Normally this international forum focuses on forward-looking issues surrounding row crops. This year, it...