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EU's future cyber-farms to utilise drones, robots and sensors

08/25/17, 05:44 AM | Lighting, Precision Farming | drones, Sensors

Anthony King, From Horizon Magazine: Bee-based maths is helping teach swarms of drones to find weeds, while robotic mowers keep hedgerows in shape.

Ag-tech: The automated farm

08/23/17, 05:47 AM | Lighting, Precision Farming | AgTech, Automation

Tara Duggan for The San Francisco Chronicle: In the field, self-propelling harvesters lop off the heads of cabbages, then funnel the 8-pound goliaths to workers who trim and sort them. Inside a nearby Taylor Farms packing plant, a three-armed robot pivots and turns to maneuver bagged salads squarely into packing boxes.

Latest ESA Research Leads to Better Cameras for Precision Agriculture

08/21/17, 05:22 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | AgTech, drones, Precision Farming

Lars Wecks for Trend in Tech: A new camera from Cubert, working in collaboration with VITO Remote Sensing and imec, based on research from the European Space Agency, is bringing high-resolution details to precision farming.

Agtech companies link to bring full automation to indoor farms

08/14/17, 05:30 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | Big Data, vertical farming

Brooklyn-based Agrilyst and Montreal-based Motorleaf have chosen to openly exchange data.

Agtech: What the umbrella term really means

08/11/17, 06:05 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | AgTech, AgTech Accelerators

Alex Sampson for The Weekly Times: Monsanto Australia technology boss James Nielsen says agtech is "about smart farmers getting smarter using digital technology".

Making vertical farming viable

08/09/17, 06:16 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | AgTech, vertical farming

Control Engineering UK looks at the role that machine control has played in helping make vertical farming a commercially viable option.

Farmers turn to artificial intelligence to grow better crops

08/07/17, 06:55 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | AgTech, Big Data

Matt McFarland for CNN Tech: NatureSweet, which grows tomatoes on six farms in the United States and Mexico, is using artificial intelligence to better control pests and diseases in its greenhouses.

Agtech Perspectives From Two Days With the Crop Chemicals Crowd

08/03/17, 09:14 PM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | AgTech, Microbes

Frank Vinluan for Xconomy: The past year has seen market launches for microbial products developed to help plants resist stresses from pests and harsh environmental conditions.

XAIRCRAFT Launched in Japan Targeting Global Precision Farming

08/02/17, 06:38 AM | Lighting, Precision Farming | drones

Japan is one of the first countries using large-scale UAV on plant protection in the world. Take rice as an example, ground vehicles spray about 22% (in 2014), and the proportion of UAV plant protection has reached 36%.

Precision farming via satellite imaging

07/31/17, 05:47 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | Big Data, drones

Phys.org: Thanks to research with ESA on new cameras, hyperspectral cameras flying on drones are now able to see details as small as 4-5 cm.

Startup utilizing artificial intelligence and computer vision for farming receives $15M in funding

07/28/17, 06:18 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | AgTech, AgTech Accelerators, Big Data, Investing

James Carroll for Vision Systems Design: Prospera explains that its digital farming system aims to collect, digitize, and analyze vast amounts of farm data and optimize all aspects of production, from agronomy to labor management.

Vineyard Robot Prototype to Debut at FutureFarm Expo in Oregon

07/14/17, 05:51 AM | Lighting, 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.

Shenandoah Growers Deploying Indoor Farming Nationwide

07/13/17, 05:48 AM | Lighting, Supply Chain | AgTech, vertical farming

Leading national organic culinary herb grower and marketer set to transform the distribution of highly perishable produce

These kale farming robots in Pittsburgh don't need soil or even much water

07/11/17, 06:02 AM | Lighting, Supply Chain | vertical farming

Aaron Aupperlee for TribLive: Robots could grow your next salad inside an old steel mill on Pittsburgh's South Side.

Getting creative to fix precision equipment glitches

07/07/17, 06:11 AM | Lighting, 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?

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