After Raising more than $77,000 on Kickstarter, Presales of the GroBox Indoor Hydroponic Greenhouse Continue on Corporate Website

All-in-one, plug-and-play, self-watering GroBox gives anyone an easy way to grow food in the convenience of their own home

Asia Agri-Tech Expo & Forum to Introduce Total Solutions for Extreme Weather on July 26-28

The solution to overcome the climate change has become a crucial subject worldwide and climate-smart agriculture combining with big data, IoT technology and auto monitoring systems for indoor farming and plant factories makes the upcoming 2018 Asia Agri-Tech Expo & Forum worth attending.

Sentera Adds Gimbaled NDVI Data Capture to DJI Phantom 4 Drone Series

Sentera's latest offering will help ag professionals collect more uniform normalized difference vegetative index (NDVI) or normalized difference red edge (NDRE) data across a wider range of operating and environmental conditions.

Pegasus Food Futures Introduce Ground-breaking Farming Technique

They unveiled plans to use artificial intelligence to improve the efficiency and reduce the costs of hydroponic farming as well as to optimise the nutritional value of the crops.

TechAccel Initiates Protein Engineering Project with UC Davis to Improve Wheat Yield

Project with The Siegel Lab in the Genome Center of the University of California, Davis

Nonprofit welaunch to Co-sponsor an Ag-tech and Food-tech Tour of Israel to Establish Business Ties Between Silicon Prairie and the Start-up Nation

welaunch (welaunch.org), a U.S.-based not-for-profit facilitating U.S. and Israel business development and investment opportunities, is co-sponsoring an Israel tour, May 6-10, promoting commerce, investment and partnerships between Israel and the Silicon Prairie

2018 China Pesticide Exporting Workshop: Highlights the price trend and stable supply strategies of agchem products in China

In recent years, China's pesticide exportation has undergone structural changes, and the proportion of formulation exportation has increased year by year.

Yield Lab Targets AgTech Start-Ups With €800,000 Investment Opportunity

This is the second year of the European programme for the Yield Lab, which mirrors sister programmes in the US and Latin America in offering early stage venture capital to companies in the AgTech sector, with a particular focus on businesses addressing issues of environmental sustainability and food security.

LPWA Networks Will Connect 250 Million Industrial and Smart City Devices by 2023, Says ON World

Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) networks enabled by technologies such as Sigfox, LoRa®, LTE-M and NB-IoT will connect hundreds of millions of stranded assets in the industrial, energy/utilities and smart cities sectors.

Some Deep Learnings from Applying Deep Learning

To build a robust deep learning model, it can be much more than training or fine tuning some existing models (e.g. inception v3, resnet, LSTM, etc.) with your own dataset. These winning models are your best friend and can usually serve as base models.

LumiGrow, a Smart Horticultural LED Lighting Company, Completes Oversubscribed Bridge Financing Round

LumiGrow, a smart horticultural lighting company, announced the successful completion of a $5.1 million bridge financing. The oversubscribed round included participation from existing lead investor, Ecosystem Integrity Fund, as well as new investors, ValueAct Spring Master Fund, L.P. and Greenhouse Capital.

Smart irrigation scheme cuts water use and boosts crop yields - scientists

BT: The micro-irrigation system, which is being trialled on a farm in Tamil Nadu, southern India, has cut water use by up to 80% and doubled the yields of some crops, the scientists from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh said.

TRIMBLE BECOMES LATEST PARTNER TO JOIN THRIVE AGTECH VENTURE & INNOVATION PLATFORM

The new relationship between Trimble and SVGs THRIVE platform signifies the continued commitment to advancing a safer and more sustainable agriculture supply chain and to providing innovative solutions to farmers and their production partners worldwide.

Mapping Potassium Deficiency: Table Grapes in the San Joaquin Valley

Growers know their crop and the pitfalls that diminish yield quality and quantity. Walking the field garners valuable information, but not all problems are visible to the naked eye, especially during early stages of a pest infestation, disease onset, or nutrient deficiency.

2017 Holganix Agriculture Trial Results: Improved Yield and Crop Performance

Holganix discusses its trial results for the 2017 season on several agriculture crops including corn, potato, soybean and strawberry among others.

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