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Precision Farming Increases Crop Yields

07/06/17, 06:04 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Monitoring & Growing | Precision Farming

Geoffrey Ling, Blake Bextine for Scientific American: Combining sensors and imaging of every plant with real-time data analytics improves farm outputs and reduces waste

'Near-zero-power' temperature sensor could make wearables, smart home devices less power-hungry

07/05/17, 06:58 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Monitoring & Growing | Sensors

Liezel Labios for Tech Explore: This "near-zero-power" temperature sensor could extend the battery life of wearable or implantable devices that monitor body temperature, smart home monitoring systems, Internet of Things devices and environmental monitoring systems.

This quiet agricultural 'moonshot' could change the future of food

06/30/17, 06:03 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Monitoring & Growing | AgTech, Precision Farming

Jenna Gallegos for The Washington Post: So how do you tackle the problem of feeding 9 billion people by 2050? Assemble an elite team of scientists for a year-long brainstorming session.

The 25 Most Innovative Ag-Tech Startups

06/29/17, 06:14 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Monitoring & Growing | AgTech, Precision Farming

Maggie McGrath and Chloe Sorvino for Forbes: "You only get 40 attempts at farming. From your 20s to your 60s, you get 40 seasons,"

Infarm wants to put a farm in every grocery store

06/28/17, 06:16 AM | Monitoring & Growing, Processing & Supply Chain | Hydroponics, vertical farming

Steve O'Hear for TechCrunch: Growing out from the centre, the basil is at ascending stages of its life, with the most outer positioned leaves ready for you, the customer, to harvest.

Wells Fargo Awards $300,000 to THRIVE's AgTech Innovation Platform

06/27/17, 06:01 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Monitoring & Growing | AgTech, Funding, Investing, Start up

Ten startups with technologies focused in soil health, food safety and traceability, decision making support, and robotics and infrastructure comprise this years THRIVE Accelerator program participants.

Australia - New network to boost farm tech capabilities

06/26/17, 05:48 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Monitoring & Growing | AgTech, IoT, Sensors

Gregor Heard for Queensland Country Life: The Rural IoT Network will provide the backbone infrastructure for shared networks of wireless sensors that constantly report on essential farm metrics.

Agriculture giants Bayer, Monsanto merging

06/22/17, 06:21 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Monitoring & Growing

John Boyd & Mike Weaver for The Hill: When they are done, the market will be dominated by two large and two smaller companies - spelling disaster for American farmers and consumers who will see food costs go up and innovation decline.

Trump heads to heartland for tech push

06/21/17, 02:19 PM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Monitoring & Growing | AgTech, Precision Farming

Jonathan Easley, The Hill: Trump will visit Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, home of the nations largest two-year agricultural college program, to view the schools cutting edge "agricultural geo-spatial technology and precision farming" techniques.

AgTech - Not Just for Large Farms?

06/21/17, 05:58 AM | Monitoring & Growing, Precision Farming | AgTech

Bryan M. Eagle III for Observer: From field monitoring and equipment telematics to livestock biometrics and market access, AgTech is transforming large farms. But what about smaller farms?

Lettuce-Weeding Robots, Coming Soon to a Farm Near You

06/19/17, 05:56 AM | Monitoring & Growing, Precision Farming | Technology Discussions

Sonya Mann for Inc.com: Blue River Technology is building machines that help farmers manage their crops more efficiently.

When Investors With No Ag Background Dive Into AgTech

06/16/17, 05:50 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Monitoring & Growing | Funding, Investing, Technology Discussions

AgWeb.com: An influx of investors is bringing more money to seed-stage AgTech startups. And while that is an incredible thing for the industry at large, it certainly comes with its own set of challenges.

5 precision ag technologies to watch

06/14/17, 06:44 AM | Monitoring & Growing, Precision Farming | drones, Farm Tech, Precision Farming

Catie Noyes for Farm and Dairy: The world of digital agriculture is continuing to advance before our eyes, says John Fulton, associate professor in Ohio States College of Food Agriculture and Biological Engineering.

Smart farming methods need IoT technologies

06/12/17, 06:11 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Monitoring & Growing | Big Data, IoT

Richard Wilson for Electronics Weekly: Technologies such as IoT can be used to address the need for sustainable food production to support the current rate of population growth, according to IoT analyst firm Beecham Research.

Top 7 technologies in precision ag

06/09/17, 06:13 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Monitoring & Growing | Agriculture, Precision Farming

Catie Noyes for Farm and Dairy: Precision agriculture and agricultural technology have come a long way in the past five to 10 years.

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