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Run Dot Run. The Workhorse of Tomorrow.

07/20/17, 08:06 AM | Monitoring & Growing, Precision Farming | autonomous

DOT is a diesel-powered, hydraulically driven platform equipped to carry any implement designed as DOT Readyâ„¢. 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, Processing & 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."

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 | Monitoring & Growing, 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.

Dealers Expecting Growth in Precision Farming Activities

07/12/17, 06:04 AM | Precision Farming, Processing & 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%.

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 | Monitoring & Growing, 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?

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.

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.

John Deere Introduces 4640 Universal Display for Tractors

06/08/17, 06:06 AM | Precision Farming, Processing & Supply Chain | Farm Tech

Latest display technology offers portable, user-friendly Gen 4 experience

Optical Sensors Advancing Precision in Agricultural Production

05/31/17, 09:29 AM | Monitoring & Growing, 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 | Monitoring & Growing, 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.

Abundant Robotics raises $10 million to commercialize its apple-picking robot

05/05/17, 05:46 AM | Precision Farming | Agriculture, robotics

B©r©nice Magistretti for VentureBeat: Picking apples may seem like a fun weekend activity, but its actually backbreaking manual labor. Abundant Robotics wants to help agricultural growers shoulder this task and today announced funding of $10 million, led by GV, to commercialize its apple-picking robot.

Soft Robotics debuts new vision system

04/12/17, 05:59 AM | Precision Farming, Processing & Supply Chain | Agriculture

Ashley Nickle for The Packer: SuperPick - short for supervisory picking - aims to provide the depth perception and recognition of 3-D using 2-D hardware and human oversight.

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