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Plenty Acquires Bright Agrotech to Globally Scale Impact of Local Farmers

06/13/17, 06:14 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting

Industry-leading technology will play cruPlenty, the leading field-scale vertical farming company reshaping agriculture to bring fresh and locally grown produce to people everywhere, announced the acquisition of Bright Agrotech, the leader in vertical farming production system technology. cial role in Plenty farms

SensorInsight Named Cool Vendor in IoT Solutions 2017 by Gartner

06/13/17, 06:12 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting

Leading Analyst Firm Selects SensorInsight for Innovative, Impactful and Intriguing Solution

Science, Technology and Humanity are Merging Together in Rural Yucatan Mexico to Raise the Livelihood and Economy

06/13/17, 06:11 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting

Turf Feeding Systems, a Houston based company, will bring together science, technology and humanity at a new high yield agriculture project in rural Yucatan Mexico for Monarca, a Mexico City company. This Phase I of the Monarca project will create 100 hectares of high yield agriculture and will include a technology and learning center, which will improve the rural economy and livelihood of the Yucatan peninsula.

PrecisionAg® Vision Conference: Focused on the Future

06/12/17, 01:51 PM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | Tradeshows and Conferences

Providing Senior Management Strategies for Global Digital Agriculture

Smart farming methods need IoT technologies

06/12/17, 06:11 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | 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, Lighting | 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.

Myriad Mobile Raises $1.5M to Launch New Ag-Tech for Grain

06/09/17, 06:10 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | Monitoring

Investment aligns strategic partners for market opportunity

What's Slowing the Use of Robots in the AG Industry?

06/08/17, 08:14 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | Analysis and Trends, Business Development

Precision agriculture isn't just rhetoric; it's real-time intelligence flowing into analytics software that transforms that flow into meaningful, practical information that farm managers can react to quickly. That data -- and that process -- have costs and, for the last few years, farmers have been stretched because commodity prices are down.

An Urban Farm Grows in Brooklyn

06/07/17, 06:18 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | Urban Farming

Melissa Fares for Reuters: For 12 months, farmers each get a 320-square-foot steel shipping container where they control the climate of their own farm. Under pink LED lights, they grow GMO-free greens all year round.

Netafim USA Unveils Comprehensive Drip Irrigation Financing Solution for Growers

06/07/17, 06:13 AM | Lighting

Netafim, In Agreement With DLL, Now Enables Farmers To Grow Their Business With Financing Of Sustainable Drip Irrigation Technologies

Piracy In The Fields: Agricultural Trade Secrets A Tempting Target

06/06/17, 10:39 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | BioTech, Cybersecurity, Data Management

Bryan Thompson for Harvest Public Media: Agriculture today is a high-tech business, but as that technology has developed, so has the temptation to take short cuts and to steal trade secrets that could unlock huge profits.

Technology in Agriculture on Upcoming American Farmer Episode

06/06/17, 05:38 AM | Lighting, Precision Farming

DMG Productions uncovers how technology is being used to advance agriculture.

Optical Sensors Advancing Precision in Agricultural Production

05/31/17, 09:29 AM | Lighting, Precision Farming | Monitoring, Sensors

Seth Murray for Photonics.com: Emerging methods for plant phenotyping involve optical sensors - from simple RGB image sensors to NIR and Raman spectroscopy.

Robotics Ignite Agricultural Revolution

05/30/17, 09:02 AM | Lighting, Precision Farming | robotics

Advanced robotics will make jobs such as harvesting easier for farmers. In time, when robots finally learn how to harvest each individual crop, farms will be able to produce more yields for human consumption.

American Robotics Scouts Out $1.1M to Bring A.I. to Farm Drones

05/23/17, 01:26 PM | Lighting, Supply Chain | drones

Frank Vinlaun for Xconomy: Drones are opening up the skies to farmers who want better ways to monitor their crops.

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