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Emerging Agricultural Technologies

07/20/17, 08:10 AM | Lighting, Precision Farming | Analysis and Trends, Business Development | Len Calderone - Contributing Author

Today, there are approximately 1 billion people who are underfed; and with an expected 9 billion people inhabiting the earth by 2050, we must use all of the technology that farmers have at their disposal. Technology is giving some promising solutions to this problem.

Run Dot Run. The Workhorse of Tomorrow.

07/20/17, 08:06 AM | Lighting, Precision Farming | autonomous

DOT is a diesel-powered, hydraulically driven platform equipped to carry any implement designed as DOT Ready™. Four lift-points lift the implement directly onto DOTs U-shaped structure, enabling DOT and the implement to become one unit.

This AgTech Startup Just Built A Coinstar For Coffee

07/20/17, 05:56 AM | Precision Farming, Supply Chain | AgTech

Alex Knapp for Forbes: "Our machine, using machine vision and artificial intelligence, analyzes every single coffee cherry," said Jones. "And then we give the grade back to the farmer who produced it."

Bullish on ag tech, Alexandria creating R&D 'mega campus' in RTP

07/18/17, 11:43 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Supply Chain | AgTech, AgTech Accelerators, Investing

Barry Teater, NCBiotech Writer: "There is no place for high-quality ag tech companies to move into plug-and-play, turnkey R&D facilities coupled with greenhouses,"

Ivy Tech Precision Ag Program prepares students with newest technologies in agriculture

07/17/17, 05:58 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Precision Farming | AgTech, Training and Education

Greensburg Daily News: The need for new agriculture training is great. Indiana is seeing an increase in the average age of its farm workers from 49 in 1950 to now approaching the age of 60.

Vineyard Robot Prototype to Debut at FutureFarm Expo in Oregon

07/14/17, 05:51 AM | Lighting, Precision Farming | AgTech, robotics

Seeking to solve the chronic labor shortage problem facing the US premium wine industry, the Digital Harvest LLC project 'ROVR' team has developed a fully mobile concept demonstrator at their Pendleton, Oregon R&D lab.

Sentera Grows High-Precision Line With Release of Quad Sensor

07/13/17, 09:01 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | drones, Precision Farming, Sensors

Sentera introduces the latest update to its high-precision sensor product line, the Quad Sensor. Featuring four fully customizable imagers, the multispectral Quad Sensor is a precision agriculture, data-collection powerhouse.

Shenandoah Growers Deploying Indoor Farming Nationwide

07/13/17, 05:48 AM | Lighting, Supply Chain | AgTech, vertical farming

Leading national organic culinary herb grower and marketer set to transform the distribution of highly perishable produce

Energy Technology Company Global Re-Fuel to Significantly Impact Poultry Industry with Cost-Effective Warm-air Biomass Furnace

07/13/17, 05:37 AM | Lighting, Supply Chain | AgTech

Global Re-Fuels warm-air biomass furnace - now in use on a farm in Texas - converts raw poultry litter into energy, providing heat to broiler houses while creating a pathogen-free organic fertilizer.

Dealers Expecting Growth in Precision Farming Activities

07/12/17, 06:04 AM | Precision Farming, Supply Chain | Precision Farming, Research and Reports

USAgNet: So what are retailers anticipating in 2017? Some 59% of all dealers forecast revenue growth of at least 2% this year, with about 15% projecting growth of at least 8%.

New IntelLiDrives XYZ Robot helps researchers to study plant development

07/11/17, 08:34 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | AgTech, Monitoring, Sensors

XYZ Robot helps researchers develop hardier, weather-resistant crops

These kale farming robots in Pittsburgh don't need soil or even much water

07/11/17, 06:02 AM | Lighting, Supply Chain | vertical farming

Aaron Aupperlee for TribLive: Robots could grow your next salad inside an old steel mill on Pittsburgh's South Side.

Roomba Inventor Joe Jones on His New Weed-Killing Robot

07/10/17, 05:58 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Precision Farming | robotics

Evan Ackerman for IEEE Spectrum: Tertill is a solar-powered, weed-destroying, fully autonomous and completely self-contained robot designed for your garden.

Getting creative to fix precision equipment glitches

07/07/17, 06:11 AM | Lighting, Precision Farming | AgTech, Precision Farming

Nat Williams, Illinois Farmer Today: Precision equipment has streamlined farming in recent years. But what happens when something goes awry while the operator is in the middle of fieldwork?

SLANTRANGE Announces Working with Bayer to Advance Research Programs with Aerial Remote Sensing

07/07/17, 06:03 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | AgTech, drones

Bayer will be able to access SLANTRANGEs advanced data analytics to develop new high-throughput phenotyping techniques

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