Monitoring & Growing - Articles, Stories & Interviews
Antarctica Is Getting a Farm That Can Grow Produce Even When It's -100 Degrees Fahrenheit Outside
Futurism: The farm will feature a year-round greenhouse that can grow food for researchers at the Neumayer III polar station on the Ekstrom Ice Shelf.
Collaborating companies kick off sensor network for Agricultural Communities
eVineyard joined forces with Globalsat, The Things Network and Vinduino to bring new Wireless IoT Network for irrigation optimization, which saves an average of 25% water.
Deere to Advance Machine Learning Capabilities in Acquisition of Blue River Technology
Blue River has designed and integrated computer vision and machine learning technology that will enable growers to reduce the use of herbicides by spraying only where weeds are present, optimizing the use of inputs in farming – a key objective of precision agriculture.
How Can Farmers Track the Weather
Crops need weather. Farmers need weather forecasts. Expect to see more advanced weather information being made available as technology improves.
Raven Industries Release Two New Precision Agriculture Products: RS1 and CR7
New Products Enhance User Experience and Propel Precision Agriculture Technology Forward
Monitoring & Growing - Featured Stories
Ikea is bringing a pop-up vertical farm to London
Lisa Bowman for Metro.co.uk: Researchers from the SPACE10 lab at the Lokal pop-up want to show the general public that delicious, fresh food can be grown right in your home, using a hydroponics farming system.
Digital Technology Meets Agronomy
Pam Smith for The Progressive Farmer: Drones buzzed overhead a tractor and spray boom projected images to simulate how spray nozzles can use new technology to spray only where weeds had escaped previous controls.
Farms that grow crops and solar power together
Fran Ryan for The Recoder: The farm at the University of Massachusetts Crop and Animal Research and Education Center on North River Road in South Deerfield is offering proof that solar arrays and agriculture don’t have to be at odds, but can actually exist together within
9 AgTech Startups Using AI to Grow Smarter
NANALYZE: One of the big reasons we’re rooting for the future is that the world’s biggest tech fund, the SoftBank Vision Fund, planted $200 million in the biggest agtech funding round ever for San Francisco-based Plenty. That brought total funding for the three-year-old
Monitoring & Growing - News Headlines
YellowScan & Quantum Systems partner to provide a cutting edge VTOL+ LiDAR integrated solution
YellowScan and Quantum Systems combined their R&D expertise to provide a reliable VTOL+LiDAR solution, able to cover large areas and fly longer (up to 60 minutes) for a high quality data acquisition.
Land O'Lakes, Inc. Announces Finalists for Drone Challenge
Land O'Lakes Prize draws international competitors to make drones work better for farmers
AB InBev, the world's largest brewer and user of malt barley, partners with agriculture technology firm Agrible
The two companies are joining forces to help farmers around the world access better data and predictive analytics on crop management and climate effects.
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Sierra Instruments, Inc.
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