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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.

Ag Groups Showcase Technology, Sustainability at Maryland Field Day

04/26/17, 10:20 AM | Lighting, Precision Farming | Agriculture, Tradeshows and Conferences
A trio of industry groups hosted federal officials for a field day of demonstrations on seed treatments, planting practices, and equipment innovations that are bringing continuous improvement to sustainable farming practices.

Wireless Electric Planters Optimize Crop Yield

04/25/17, 08:55 AM | Lighting | Agriculture
Coupled with the electrification of farming vehicle systems and rising seed costs, the farmer faces a unique challenge: accurately planting seed in order to optimize crop yield.

More Farmers Considering Drone Use

04/20/17, 05:38 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | , Agriculture
Hoosier Ag Today: A new poll finds 21 percent of farmers plan to operate a drone this year. The poll found 21 percent of farmers will operate the drone themselves, while another 12 percent of farmers indicated they would opt for a third-party entity to fly drones.

SLANTRANGE Launches the 3p Multispectral Sensor for Agriculture Drones with Flexible New Data Processing Options

03/17/17, 05:39 AM | Lighting | Agriculture, drones, Software and Smarts
The new 3p sensor from SLANTRANGE, powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon Flight, is available now with new SlantView software plans to meet the needs of all users.

AgFunder Announces AgTech Innovation Award Winners for 2016

01/19/17, 05:35 AM | Lighting, Precision Farming | Agriculture, awards
As innovation in agriculture technology continues to accelerate, AgFunder is highlighting twenty companies and three accelerators for their leadership in innovation.

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