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Farming the Future and Feeding the World

08/09/18, 08:13 AM | Planning & Preparation, Monitoring & Growing | Business Development, Tradeshows and Conferences

Silicon Valley Forum's "Seeds of Our Future" Program Returns for a Third Year

Swift Navigation Case Study: Northstar Robotics

08/07/18, 08:12 AM | Planning & Preparation, Monitoring & Growing | Business Development, case study

By coupling its cloud and open autonomy platforms to disrupt agriculture, Northstar Robotics is on track to solve farm labor shortages and reduce farm input costs.

Pouring Fuel on the Fire - on Product Market Fit

08/02/18, 08:35 AM | Planning & Preparation | Business Development

In agriculture, it's common for new products to go through field trials. Trials are lengthy and are often run at the cost of the vendor who is looking to build a proof of concept for their product.

Smart Agriculture With The Advent Of IoT And Drones

07/26/18, 08:46 AM | Planning & Preparation, Monitoring & Growing | drones, IoT

Smart Farming is a capital-effective and hi-tech system of growing food cleanly and making it sustainable for people. It is an application of modern Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) into agriculture.

More Accurately Forecasting Future Harvests Using Artificial Intelligence

07/24/18, 09:07 AM | Planning & Preparation, Harvesting & Transport | AI, Indoor Farming

Using Motorleaf's artificial intelligence and machine-learning algorithms, the digital agronomist software can acquire data from indoor growing conditions. In turn, the algorithms learn growing patterns in the greenhouse, which then can predict the size of future harvests.

HerdDogg Secures $2.3M in Seed Funding to Improve Remote Health Monitoring of Livestock

07/20/18, 05:47 AM | Planning & Preparation, Processing & Supply Chain | AgTech, livestock, Sensors

The seed funding from several mid-western VC firms with deep experience in agricultural technologies, IoT, and big data technologies is an expert validation of HerdDogg's technology and market potential.

As Farmers Grow Drone Use, Privacy Issues Top List of Concerns

07/18/18, 06:04 AM | Planning & Preparation, Monitoring & Growing

Survey of Farmers Highlights New Risks and Opportunities in Expanding Drone Market

As Farmers Grow Drone Use, Privacy Issues Top List of Concerns

07/18/18, 06:04 AM | Planning & Preparation, Monitoring & Growing | drones

Survey of Farmers Highlights New Risks and Opportunities in Expanding Drone Market

Report: Solar Energy Advances for Ranching and Farming

07/17/18, 09:33 AM | Planning & Preparation, Monitoring & Growing | energy

Beyond providing power to farm structures, solar energy can power agricultural operations such as crop irrigation, rangeland livestock watering, security systems, and is contributing to solar innovations in equipment.

Population Growth, Less Arable Land, and Sustainability Driving Demand for Controlled-Release Fertilizers

07/12/18, 08:02 AM | Planning & Preparation | Fertilizer

China and U.S. driving most of global demand growth for these environmentally friendly alternatives to conventional fertilizers.

The Toro Company Launches Land. Water. Thrive. Initiative

07/11/18, 05:55 AM | Planning & Preparation, Processing & Supply Chain | AgTech, Water Conservation

Efforts seek to improve water use efficiency, enrich outdoor environments and drive sustainable agriculture in communities and among rural families in developing countries

Holistic Farm Management

07/10/18, 09:14 AM | Planning & Preparation | Business Development, Holistic Farm Management | Len Calderone - Contributing Author

To find sustainability and success, farmers need to mimic nature. Holistic farm management does not function without establishing goals and values that fit with the quality of life that a farmer is trying to accomplish.

Agribotix Introduces New Plant Count Report Providing Advanced Analytics

06/26/18, 04:39 AM | Planning & Preparation, Monitoring & Growing | AgTech, Big Data, drones

Farmers can now obtain a whole-field plant count from a single drone flight

Open AgTech Announces New API Standard Enabling Growers to Use Technology to Its Fullest Within Greenhouses and Vertical Farms

06/20/18, 07:54 AM | Planning & Preparation, Monitoring & Growing | AgTech, Greenhouses, Software and Smarts, vertical farming

Technologists come together to form new standard for connecting hardware and software for the indoor agriculture industry.

Rewiring plant defence genes to reduce crop waste

06/18/18, 07:51 AM | Planning & Preparation, Monitoring & Growing | AgTech, BioTech, genetics

This method could render crops more resilient against disease, helping mitigate crop wastage throughout the world. Since the system can be implemented by re-wiring plants' natural defence mechanisms, no external genetic circuitry needs to be added.

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