Just like a smart phone helps users learn, communicate and make important decisions, smart technology—known as precision agriculture—helps farmers know and apply critical information about the right investments in fertilizer, seed, pesticide and water needed to produce their crops. Through new technologies, farmers produce more efficiently and see an increase in profits while improving stewardship […]

Precision Weather Solutions Inc. has announced it is the first company with a commercially available solution, WxAgrios, integrated with both John Deere Operations Center and John Deere Field Connect. Precision Weather Solutions created a set of solutions that integrate data through John Deere Field Connect and John Deere APIs into the company’s suite of meteorology and […]

Robots and drones have begun to quietly transform many aspects of agriculture. In fact, the IDTechEx Research report onAgricultural Robots and Drones 2016-2026: Technologies, Markets, and Players finds that this is already a $3 billion market in 2016, growing to $10 billion by as early as 2022 The report analyzes how the robotic market and […]

DroneDeploy today announced a new solution that addresses drone data portability challenges in remote areas that have Internet bandwidth constraints. DroneDeploy’s new Turbo Uploader makes it exponentially faster for users with slow Internet speeds to upload drone images for processing, while additional improvements increase the speed with which users can load and view maps, and […]

With today’s public policy focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, farmers can play a key role in making this happen. In fact, by optimizing the nitrogen fertilizer, a farmer’s contribution can come with the side benefit of increased yield and higher profit. As with every industry, farming contributes to the production of various greenhouse gases. […]

Matt Hopkins, the Senior Online Editor for the CropLife Media Group at Meister Media Worldwide, is convinced that variable-rate fertigation can be simple. The arguments in proof of this are in his article for PecisionAg. A rule is a rule is a rule, right? Well, not always. Sometimes, rules are meant to be changed. Most people […]

Self-steering combines, which require G.P.S. technology, have made field operations more accurate WASHINGTON — Information-based production (precision agriculture) technologies have seen rapid growth in the United States, according to a May 2 article on Amber Waves, an on-line publication of the Economic Research Service (E.R.S.) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The advancing technologies allow farmers to more […]

Drones may ultimately help change the face of agriculture, as we saw in action at the AgBot Challenge in Indiana last month, but it’s not just commercial farming that could benefit from autonomous robots. Case in point: FarmBot, whose autonomous kits called Genesis will be available for pre-order this week, simply wants to oversee your home garden. Its ambitions […]

A central Wisconsin farmer says by utilizing an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) as a crop management tool, her family farm increased productivity significantly in 2015. Megan Wallendal says by using a UAV and the correct software to scout her fields she was able to proactively manage crops to prevent yield loss before it happened.  “If you get […]