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AgriHub in Year One: Empowering Brazilian Growers with Innovation
In recent years, producers in Mato Grosso have experienced a stagnation of productivity and increased production costs, limiting crop production and thus tightening their overall margins. With growing...
View ArticleThe Climate Corp. Expands Global Digital Agriculture Platform into Europe
The Climate Corp., a subsidiary of Monsanto Co., has announced at Agritechnica, the world’s leading trade fair for agricultural machinery, the pre-commercial launch of the Climate FieldView digital...
View ArticleIowa Farm a Model for Modernizing China Agriculture
The buddy seat on Rick Kimberley’s combine-harvester is a fine vantage point from which to observe precision farming. The combine’s satellite navigation allows farmers to make the most of good weather...
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Agricultural Drones in Brazil: A Look at Training and Practical Use
This soybean field in Mato Grasso, Brazil, was photographed from 65 meters up by an agricultural drone. Technology adoption usually occurs in stages. In agriculture, it progresses best when new...
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Agritechnica 2017: 5 Quick Takeaways from World’s Top Farm Show
Agritechnica 2017 wrapped up this past weekend, and now with the show in the books and a few days to think about/process everything seen and heard in Hannover, Germany last week, I have but one...
View ArticleChinese Farmers Using Drones to Spray Pesticides
Farmers in China have caught up with the country’s booming drone trend and started using unmanned aircraft to spray pesticide onto the fields, according to an article on DailyMail.co.uk. Not only that,...
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PERSPECTIVE: Is Bayer’s Highly Anticipated xarvio App the Next Uber for Ag?
The xarvio booth at Agritechnica 2017. As many of our CropLife IRON readers might know, every summer at MAGIE we award the most popular product featured at the show with the ShowStopper Award. Had we...
View ArticleNew Ag-Tech Facility in Melbourne to Explore Use of AI, Robotics, Sensors in...
Monash University is establishing an ag-tech facility in Melbourne’s southeast with the vision to innovate new smart farming techniques including automated harvesting and driverless vehicles in...
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On-Farm Trials in Brazil: The Way to Improve Agronomic Knowledge
The idea of using on-farm trials to gather data about the performance of any crop input has been in place even before the advent of modern science. Farmers tend to test anything new on small portions...
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Agritechnica 2017: Executives Discuss Europe Ag Tech Adoption
Seated from left: Prof. Dr. Arno Ruckelshausen, Dr. Bernd Scherer, and Dr. Reinhard Grandke. While North American growers slog through yet another season of depressed farm incomes and commodity...
View ArticleAg Data Management: Success Starts with a Common Platform
As the outside temperature regularly reads over 40 degrees Celsius, Australian cotton growers have again reached one of the busiest times of the season: irrigation time! With some fields that are...
View Article2017: The Inflection Year for Indian Agtech
The Series C funding of $10 million in Skymet recently announced epitomizes the growing interest of investors in Indian agtech space, writes Hemendra Mathur on YourStory.com. In addition to Skymet, two...
View ArticleAmazone Set to Release Weed-Detecting Sprayer in Australia
European farm machinery giant Amazone is set to release its UX trailed weed-detecting sprayer in Australia, which it says can reduce the cost of herbicides by up to 80% and the amount of chemical...
View Article12 Indian Agritech Startups to Watch Out For in 2018
Farming is a profession of hope. And India holds the record for the second-largest agricultural land in the world, with around 60% rural Indian households making their living from agriculture, writes...
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5 Best Ag Tech Shows in Brazil
Agrishow is the largest and most traditional fair in Brazil. Brazil continues to demonstrate its potential in agriculture. Several international companies are investing in our country because we have a...
View ArticlePrecision Farming Companies to Watch in 2018 (OPINION)
My friends, as many of you told me repeatedly throughout the last 12 months, 2017 was an interesting year in Ag Tech. We witnessed needle-moving mergers and acquisitions (Deere-Blue River;...
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Electrostatic Spraying Grows in South American Agriculture
Electrostatic spraying of crops is gaining momentum in South American countries such as Brazil. Electrostatic spraying of crops continues to become more popular in South America. This technique...
View ArticleBravo: Congress Considers Rural Broadband Act
The Agricultural Broadband Coalition applauded bipartisan leaders in the House and Senate for introducing the Precision Agriculture Connectivity Act of 2018 on Thursday, a milestone piece of...
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NY Times Features Deep Dive on Equipment Dealer Consolidation
Via The New York Times: For as long as he can remember, the only thing Matt Gies really wanted to do for a living was repair farm equipment, writes Noam Scheiber and Ben Casselman with The New York...
View ArticlePrecision Ag Innovations: How to Find Real Dollars Among the Cryptocurrencies?
As we’re almost through the first month of 2018, the dryland cotton in Australia has battled some pretty difficult conditions: extremely hot and dry conditions in combination with herbicide spray-drift...
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