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 […]

“Professional potatoes growing is profitable.” Under this motto, Syngenta today held the Field Day at the Biotech LTD. The event took place in the Gorodische village, Boryspil district of Kyiv region, and gathered a lot of people, who wanted to know this business at length. The participants of the event discussed the peculiarities and perspectives […]

  Brownfield’s Meghan Grebner interviews Purdue University’s Bruce Erickson. An agronomist says in today’s agriculture environment it’s even more important for growers to know which management practices work and which ones don’t on their farm. Purdue University’s agronomy education distance and outreach director Bruce Erickson says precision tools don’t just allow producers to shave input […]

     When you think about field robots, you’ll likely bring up images of small spider-like machines that work in groups to tend the crop. At least those are the types we’ve written about in the past. But this week we got wind of a field robot that is being called “the largest in the […]

The end of June were two interesting events – the II International Forum of Agricultural Innovations “Nove Zerniatko” in Nastasiv, Ternopil region, and the Field Day of the Agrocentre-EuroChem Ukraine in the Kyiv region. AgriLab was the partner of these events. The International Forum of Agricultural Innovations “Nove Zerniatko” is taking place the second consecutive […]

Today the training and practical project AgriStart, created on the initiative of AgriLab, were presented to students of agricultural specialties at the National University of Bioresources and Natural Resources of Ukraine. Iaroslav Boiko broght up to speed on project. “The educational and practical project AgriStart was created with the purpose of maximum assistance in the […]

By: Matthew J. Grassi | Paul Schrimpf This may be a bit of stating the obvious here, but we’ll throw it out there anyways: as much as some of us may fight it, we journalists are unequivocal #List Nerds. Listicles, Top 10s, “Best-Ofs”. Websites like Buzzfeed and Huffington Post basically made the leap to mainstream media status all […]