Top Article for 2019 - Smart Sensors in Farming
By positioning sensors, farmers can understand their crops at a micro scale, sustain resources, and reduce environmental impact.
From Sky to Ground, XAG Launches Farm Robots and Smart Agriculture Management System
Justin Gong, Co-founder and Vice President of XAG, kicked off the conference by carefully elaborating the Smart Agriculture POV Report 2020. This report for the first time clarifies the definitions regarding digital agriculture, precision agriculture and smart agriculture.
Successful Field Trials of Edete's Artificial Pollination Technology Advance Entry Into the Huge California Almond Market
About 75% of the world's crops rely on insect pollination. Edete's technology can replace nature's pollinators like honeybees in order to help produce more food and meet the needs of the world's growing population.
Iowa Grower Achieves Nation's 2nd Highest 2019 Corn Yield in the No-Till Irrigated Category Using Netafim Drip Irrigation
National Corn Growers Association Recognizes Growers in Iowa, North Carolina and South Dakota for Their Outstanding Drip-Irrigated Corn Yields
How RFID Technology Is Used in Agriculture
By placing RFID tags onto agricultural products' packages, farmers can determine the health condition of the product, making it convenient for processing companies to concurrently add information on the tag, such as enterprise codes, the processing date, batch processing, and package weight.
Robotics in Agriculture: an Alternative to Traditional Farming
A wide range of technologies can enable the transition of agricultural robots into the field. Some technologies will need to be developed specifically for agriculture, while other technologies already developed for other areas could be adapted to the agricultural domain.
Bridgestone Brings First At-Scale Use of Recovered Carbon Black to Tire Market
As demand for virgin carbon black (vCB) outpaces supply, the strategic investment by Bridgestone provides an alternative that benefits not only the tire industry, but the planet as well.
South Dakota State University Selects Burns & McDonnell for New Precision Agriculture Building Commissioning
Burns & McDonnell will help the 110,500-square-foot Raven Precision Agriculture Center pursue LEED v4 certification, which will be comprised of innovative classrooms, laboratories and collaboration spaces to support the first multidisciplinary major in precision agriculture
Motiv Robotics Announces Enhanced RoboMantis® Robot
Motiv Robotics announces the availability of the RoboMantis robot with enhanced capabilities at iROS 2019 in Macau.
IoT in Agriculture Market
The growing trend of using IoT in agricultural applications such as organic farming and family farming, where there are complex or small spaces that contain cattle and high-quality varieties of crop, is projected to drive the usage of IoT in agriculture.
Small Robot Helps Space Plants for Greenhouses and Nurseries.
Ag businesses have also increasingly relied on AI and robots to help perform certain necessary tasks. These robots are typically specialized and designed for one kind of job. One example of this is Harvest Automation's container-moving robot.
UAVOS Unmanned Helicopter for Precision Farming
Agro-drone R22-UV is equipped with a specially developed (for Robinson helicopters) utility to deliver liquid chemicals.
Universal Automation in Agriculture
IoT devices permit growers to assemble more data about the condition of their farms, and IoT is indicating great potential for improving provision delivery and propelling agriculture to utmost productivity.
XAG Drone Fleets Take Off for Large-scale Cotton Defoliation Operation in Xinjiang
This is the world's largest cotton defoliation operation that involves the use of fully autonomous drones to ensure a cost-effective, eco-friendly machine harvest. Up to mid-September, one million hectares of cotton fields have been defoliated with XAG's crop spraying drones
Shenandoah Growers opens next generation USDA certified indoor BioFarms in Virginia
Leading certified organic indoor agriculture company commences operations in state-of-the-art integrated growing and production facilities.
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From the Farm to Your Table: How Optics Are Transforming Agrifood Industry
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