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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.

When Investors With No Ag Background Dive Into AgTech

06/16/17, 05:50 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Monitoring & Growing | Funding, Investing, Technology Discussions

AgWeb.com: An influx of investors is bringing more money to seed-stage AgTech startups. And while that is an incredible thing for the industry at large, it certainly comes with its own set of challenges.

New funding to grow food for a better future

06/15/17, 08:58 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Monitoring & Growing | Business Development, vertical farming

We realize that were only at the beginning of the Bowery journey and we couldnt have asked for a better group of investors to help us grow in this next stage.

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.

Smart farming methods need IoT technologies

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

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

06/08/17, 08:14 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Monitoring & Growing | 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, Monitoring & Growing | 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.

Piracy In The Fields: Agricultural Trade Secrets A Tempting Target

06/06/17, 10:39 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Monitoring & Growing | 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.

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.

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

05/23/17, 01:26 PM | Monitoring & Growing, Processing & Supply Chain | drones

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

Wireless Electric Planters Optimize Crop Yield

04/25/17, 08:55 AM | Monitoring & Growing | 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, Monitoring & Growing | , 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.

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