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Not Your Average Ag Pest, Why Mosquitoes Deserve a Spot on the Radar

With the 2025 mosquito season upon us, we believe it’s important to spotlight the risks these pests pose to human health and overall agricultural productivity. Their expanding habitat range, driven largely in part by climate change, makes it clear: awareness is critical.

Mouser Explores Smart Tech in Farming with Agriculture Resource Hub

Technological advancements, like satellites, have enabled farmers to track changes in land use, such as crop growth and vegetation health, which helps feed the growing global population while maintaining sustainable practices.

Mitigating 6 Financial Risks of Implementing New Farming Technology

Farmers should view agri-tech as a long-term investment that supports growth over time, not a quick fix for short-term challenges. Smart technology adoption starts with careful planning, honest budgeting and asking the right questions before purchasing.

What Is a Camera Module – And What Are Its Components?

Camera modules can be integrated into embedded vision devices like drones, industrial equipment, etc. They consist of components such as sensors, lenses, interfaces, and more. Get expert insights into how they work, their popular types, and more.

Stuck in the Past | Why Farmers Are Replacing Sticky Traps with Real-Time Insect Monitoring

While sticky traps have served their purpose over the years, they come with significant drawbacks. These old school monitoring tools demand regular attention and manual data collection — which is time-consuming and labor-intensive.

Chicken or Egg? The AgTech Adoption Dilemma

The question is: What’s the real barrier? Are farmers slow to adopt, or is technology too difficult to implement? The reality is more complex, and agribusinesses need a better approach to drive digital transformation.

Recruiting Talent in the AgriTech Industry

If you look at the schools today vs. even 5-7 years ago, many more are offering degrees in Ag Tech and CEA. This allows many more students to pursue this as a course of study, and hopefully have increased opportunity after they graduate.

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Agnomy - Making Ag Services Easier for Farmers

Whether managing hundreds of acres or just getting started, Agnomy makes sourcing services vital to your operation easier. For farmers who may not yet have the benefit of a large network, finding the right service providers shouldn't be another obstacle.

Indigo approaches a megaton of carbon removals stored in US cropland

Indigo’s MRV approach recognized as industry best practice. 85% decrease in administrative burden removes meaningful obstacle to scale-up. Over 1M carbon removals and reductions achieved cumulatively across Indigo’s programs confirming soil as a new asset class.

Antobot announces global expansion of its universal AI-Powered "uRCU® Robotic control unit for agritech

Antobot’s uRCU® delivers a cost-effective, automotive-grade, compact and universally compatible all-in-one solution making AI-powered automation and precision control accessible to farms of all sizes.

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The Directions Group and Idealyst Innovation Form Strategic Partnership to Advance Integrated Intelligence and Innovation in Agriculture

The Directions Group's expertise in integrated intelligence and custom research combined with Idealyst's ability to curate innovative solutions addressing farmers' most pressing challenges will empower clients, and their producer customers, to remain resilient in a compounding risk environment.

BISON® TO SHOWCASE CUTTING-EDGE REGENERATIVE BLOWER TECHNOLOGY AT BIOGAS AMERICAS 2025

BISON®'s ROTRON® CP and EN Regenerative Blowers set a new standard for biogas applications, delivering superior safety, performance, reliability, and noise reduction compared to rotary lobe technology

New Eagle Expands Embedded Control Portfolio with Raptor® High-Performance Compute Platform Built on John Deere VPU

New platform brings GPU acceleration to the Raptor ecosystem, enabling AI-driven vision and control applications at the edge

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Elmo Motion Control - The Platinum Line, a new era in servo control
Elmo Motion Control – The Platinum Line, a new era in servo control

Elmo Motion Control - The Platinum Line, a new era in servo control

Significantly enhanced servo performance, higher EtherCAT networking precision, richer servo operation capabilities, more feedback options, and certified smart Functional Safety. Elmo's industry-leading Platinum line of servo drives provides faster and more enhanced servo performance with wider bandwidth, higher resolutions, and advanced control for better results. Platinum drives offer precise EtherCAT networking, faster cycling, high synchronization, negligible jitters, and near-zero latency. They are fully synchronized to the servo loops and feature-rich feedback support, up to three feedbacks simultaneously (with two absolute encoders working simultaneously). The Platinum Line includes one of the world's smallest Functional Safety, and FSoE-certified servo drives with unique SIL capabilities.

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Elmo Motion Control Ltd.

Elmo has been a motion control technology leader for over 35 years, with millions of servo drives working 24/7 worldwide. Elmo offers complete motion control solutions from design to delivery of cutting-edge servo drives, network-based multi-axis motion controllers, and integrated servo motors. All solutions can be customized and configured using Elmo's proprietary advanced and easy-to-use software tools for any machine in any industry, such as semiconductors, lasers, robots, life sciences, industrial automation, AGV, and more. The company employs more than 350 personnel with headquarters in Israel and offices in the United States, China, Germany, Italy, Korea, Singapore, and an additional manufacturing facility in Poland. Elmo has a worldwide distribution network. By advancing motion control with state-of-the-art technology, Elmo makes smart machines even smarter. As of 2022, Elmo is a Bosch Rexroth company.