AgriTech - Articles, Stories & Interviews
Why You Can’t Afford to Run Your Farm Without a Cultivation Management Platform
If you’re a grower, you know how difficult it is to compete in this low margin, high risk business. It doesn’t matter what you grow or how you grow it, all crop production is vulnerable.
Launching a Successful Second Career with Container Farming
A conversation with Steve Huntley of Enlightened Crops on how he discovered Freight Farms and leveraged previous business experience into his new venture of Container Farmng
AgTech Start-up Farmobile Announces Investment from AGI
AGI to lead Farmobile’s latest investment round, continuing the mission to build the foundational technology of agriculture
Robots in the Vineyard
In France’s Bordeaux region, robots ensure that the wine is organically good. They autonomously eliminate grass and weeds between the vines, making pesticides unnecessary. To enable the robots to navigate the hilly terrain, the developers took some cues from Mars rovers.
Technology Drives Iron Sales and New Revenue Streams
Dealerships are benefiting from this shift with predictive purchase awareness and predictive service awareness, culled from knowledge of relative producer income and detailed insight of field operations.
IoT–based Smart Irrigation Systems Transforming Irrigation Industry
The combination of the Internet of Things (IoT) and AI technologies, such as machine learning, computer vision, and predictive analytics, further allow farmers to analyse real-time data of weather conditions, temperature, soil moisture, and plant health.
Soil Moisture Sensors in Agriculture
Today, because of recent developments in soil and water monitoring, the critical information is being received in real-time measurements from the field, helping farmers make faster, more accurate crop production decisions.
AgriTech - Featured Stories
Advanced Intelligent Systems to Showcase Autonomous Custom Robot at Cultivate'19
BigTop solves the repetitive and laborious task of moving and spacing pots of different sizes and weights in greenhouses and nurseries. BigTop can move up to nine plant pots at a time and then place the plants securely on its rotating robotic platform base.
Violet Gro LED Grow Lights Partners With Hyperponic on Their Fully Integrated Vertical Tower Growing System
The Hyperponic CropTower is a technologically advanced growing system that provides growers with a complete computer-controlled environment and nutrition management system to facilitate increased quality and consistency, faster production and reduced space requirement.
XAG Displayed the Promising Future of Agriculture Drone at the 3rd Drone World Congress
Themed with "Better Technology, Better Life", the congress emphasised the industry applications of drones in agriculture, public safety, land management, civil aviation, environmental protection, disaster rescue, etc.
AgriTech - News Headlines
XAG Expounds the Driving Forces Behinds China's Rapid Developing Smart Agriculture at World Economic Forum
XAG is a leading agriculture technology company and industrial UAS manufacturer, which developed its own patented agriculture drones, sensors and other digital farming tools for precision spraying, granule spreading and mapping.
Artificial Intelligence Is Shaping The Farms of The Future
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Agriculture Market is booming rapidly with the rising usage of AI in agriculture; maximizing the product yield using machine learning and picture processing methods also drives market demand
Green Life Farms Harvests First Crop in State-of-the-Art Hydroponic Greenhouse
Lake Worth company to begin commercial operations, selling premium baby leafy greens to local customers, later this summer
Soil Health Institute Releases Comprehensive Strategy for Soil Health
An abundance of research shows that practices designed to improve soil health also reduce nutrient loss to waterways, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase carbon sequestration, increase biodiversity, and provide many other benefits.
Semtech's IoT Platform Monitors Soil Irrigation for Healthier Crops
Oizom's LoRa-based sensors reduce farm water and electricity consumption by up to 26 percent
AgriTech - Featured Product
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AgriTech - Featured Company
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