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Farmers turn to artificial intelligence to grow better crops

08/07/17, 06:55 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Monitoring & Growing | 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, Monitoring & Growing | 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 | Monitoring & Growing, 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%.

No 'game of drones:' The serious future of unmanned aerial vehicles in agriculture

08/01/17, 11:57 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Monitoring & Growing | drones, uav

Drones may not replace the honeybee, but dont bet on a future of agriculture that doesnt increasingly depend on their capacity to reinvent 21st century farming.

Precision farming via satellite imaging

07/31/17, 05:47 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Monitoring & Growing | 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, Monitoring & Growing | 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.

Huge Variation Found in Air Bulk Metering Systems

07/25/17, 08:23 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Monitoring & Growing | fertilizing, planting, seeds

The Secret is Out-Average Variation of 20% in Product Distribution.

Northern Power Wind Turbines Generate Significant Energy Savings for New York Dairy Farm

07/20/17, 04:21 PM | Monitoring & Growing, Precision Farming | energy

Farming industry can reap benefits from clean wind power and energy incentive programs.

Emerging Agricultural Technologies

07/20/17, 08:10 AM | Monitoring & Growing, Precision Farming | Analysis and Trends, Business Development | Len Calderone - Contributing Author

Today, there are approximately 1 billion people who are underfed; and with an expected 9 billion people inhabiting the earth by 2050, we must use all of the technology that farmers have at their disposal. Technology is giving some promising solutions to this problem.

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 Ready™. Four lift-points lift the implement directly onto DOTs U-shaped structure, enabling DOT and the implement to become one unit.

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.

Sentera Grows High-Precision Line With Release of Quad Sensor

07/13/17, 09:01 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Monitoring & Growing | drones, Precision Farming, Sensors

Sentera introduces the latest update to its high-precision sensor product line, the Quad Sensor. Featuring four fully customizable imagers, the multispectral Quad Sensor is a precision agriculture, data-collection powerhouse.

Shenandoah Growers Deploying Indoor Farming Nationwide

07/13/17, 05:48 AM | Monitoring & Growing, Processing & Supply Chain | AgTech, vertical farming

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

Energy Technology Company Global Re-Fuel to Significantly Impact Poultry Industry with Cost-Effective Warm-air Biomass Furnace

07/13/17, 05:37 AM | Monitoring & Growing, Processing & Supply Chain | AgTech

Global Re-Fuels warm-air biomass furnace - now in use on a farm in Texas - converts raw poultry litter into energy, providing heat to broiler houses while creating a pathogen-free organic fertilizer.

New IntelLiDrives XYZ Robot helps researchers to study plant development

07/11/17, 08:34 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Monitoring & Growing | AgTech, Monitoring, Sensors

XYZ Robot helps researchers develop hardier, weather-resistant crops

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