Digital Farming
June 3, 2019
The mechanization of agriculture is an old story. In the U.S., writes Bruce Posner for MIT Sloan Management Review, bigger and more automated tractors are planting and harvesting thousands of acres of megacrops like corn, wheat, and soybeans, using...
Market Watch
June 3, 2019
Brazilian digital agriculture company Solinftec has set up its North American offices at Purdue Research Park in West Lafayette, Indiana, and is trying to create a data-aggregation system powered by artificial intelligence that allows U.S. farmers to closely monitor...
In-Field Technologies
May 2, 2019
Robot farming startup Iron Ox has announced that it’s selling robot-reared leafy greens in a single location in California, The Verge reports.
Iron Ox is one of a number of companies trying to automate the human-intensive work of agriculture. It...
Market Watch
April 24, 2019
Technology always changes the way we think and how we do things, posts Scott Elliott, National Institute of Food and Agriculture, at USDA.gov. Now, thanks to research at Michigan State University (MSU), farmers have a new tool to determine...
Market Watch
April 18, 2019
U.S. association Western Growers has launched a new interactive directory that acts as a marketplace for agricultural technology (agtech) startups, according to an article on FreshFruitPortal.com.
This directory allows users to identify, research, and connect with start-up companies who are...
Irrigation
April 4, 2019
The Climate Corporation, a subsidiary of Bayer, and Lindsay Corp., a leading global manufacturer and distributor of irrigation technology, have announced a platform agreement that will establish two-way data connectivity between The Climate Corporation's Climate FieldView digital agriculture platform...
In-Field Technologies
March 29, 2019
Most farmers can tell at a glance if their crop is ready to harvest. Josh Lessing has a robot that can do that, too, reports Hiawatha Bray for the Boston Globe.
Lessing is cofounder of startup in Somerville, Massachusetts, U.S.,...
In-Field Technologies
March 29, 2019
Roboticists are creating crop-specific machines to harvest fruits and veggies, reports Matt Simon for Wired. There’s the robot that harvests lettuce with a knife made of water. Now comes the apple-picking robot, a metallic farmer that just graduated from...
Digital Farming
March 23, 2019
Activity in the ag-tech sector has skyrocketed over the last five years — marking its arrival as an important piece of the venture capital ecosystem, according to with Arama Kukutai of the venture capital firm Finistere.
Kukutai told Tim Sandle...
Industry News
March 22, 2019
Computing software company niolabs has entered into a progressive partnership with the University of California, Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. The design of this partnership combines niolabs' patented technology with the globally eminent UC Davis agriculture and...
Analytics
March 22, 2019
Two powerful trends – the Internet of Things (IoT) and data analytics – are generating lots of press for their industrial and infrastructure applications, writes Rich Quinnell for EE Times. But there is another application space that is quietly...
Drones | UAVs
March 21, 2019
To hear the early adopters for drone technology tell it, low-flying platforms equipped with multi-spectral sensors can deliver high-resolution field data on everything from the performance of irrigation systems to soil maps that tell growers where and when to...
Irrigation
March 20, 2019
Prospera, an Israeli ag-tech company, plans to turn 60,000 irrigation pivots in open fields into artificial intelligence (AI) autonomous growing machines that can operate 24/7, writes Jennifer Kite-Powell on Forbes.com. Through a new partnership with irrigation company Valley, the...
Connectivity
March 18, 2019
Montana State Representative Daniel Zolnikov uses his home state as an object example of how the FCC is, despite its best efforts, likely understating the scope of the gap in broadband availability for rural America. Zolnikov (R-Billings) represents House...
Analytics
March 18, 2019
Leading the way in using drive increasingly sophisticated data and analytics tools to drive efficiencies and cut waste in agriculture and food production is John Deere, writes futurist Bernard Marr on Forbes.com. The 180-year-old manufacturer of farming and industrial machinery...
Digital Farming
February 27, 2019
Today, xarvio Digital Farming Solutions by BASF launched the xarvio Field Manager for the U.S. market at Commodity Classic tradeshow in Orlando, FL, according to a press release distributed by the Associated Press (AP).
The new digital product supports growers...
Analytics
July 31, 2018
Farmers Edge is colloborating with Phillips Seed Farms.
Farmers Edge recently announced a collaboration with Phillips Seed Farms Inc., a full-line seed company servicing Midwest and Southern U.S. States.
According to a press release from Farmers Edge,...
Market Watch
April 9, 2018
Most farmers in America don’t currently use farm management software (FMS) – but that could change, fast.
Working from data collected from a survey of 1,490 farmers in January 2018, a new report estimates the U.S. market for farm management...
Analytics
February 20, 2018
Mavrx booth at InfoAg 2017, Union Station Hotel, St. Louis, MO.
The team at San Francisco, CA-based Mavrx has announced an initiative to increase access to advanced decision support tools in agriculture by opening it's platform,...
Market Watch
August 31, 2016
The Justice Department filed a lawsuit on Wednesday aimed at stopping Deere & Co. from buying Monsanto's Precision Planting farm equipment business, reports Diane Bartz of Reuters on StLToday.com.
Deere said in a statement that it would fight the lawsuit,...
