Precision Farming Articles, Stories & News

Organic Dairy Farmer Albert Straus Announces the First Full-Scale Electric Truck Powered by Cow Poop

07/27/17, 09:55 AM | Precision Farming | energy

Straus goal is to demonstrate to the farming community and public that farmers can implement and teach others practical solutions to climate change.

As California's labor shortage grows, farmers race to replace workers with robots

07/24/17, 05:48 AM | Precision Farming, Processing & Supply Chain | AgTech, Labor

Geoffrey Mohan for LA Times: Now, the $47-billion agriculture industry is trying to bring technological innovation up to warp speed before it runs out of low-wage immigrant workers.

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.

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."

bext360 to Unveil the bextmachine at TechCrunch Robotics Event at MIT

07/18/17, 05:54 AM | Precision Farming, Processing & Supply Chain

First Public Demo of bext360's Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence Powered Platform to Collect, Analyze, Pay, and Track Coffee from Bean-to-Brew to Take Place at MIT on July 17th

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.

Autonomous Solutions, Inc. Awarded 3rd DOD Funded Project for the Development of Driverless Vehicle Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

07/14/17, 05:54 AM | Precision Farming, Processing & Supply Chain

Autonomous Solutions, Inc. (ASI) has been awarded additional funding through the Department of Defense (DoD) to further apply machine learning and artificial intelligence to improve the mobility and behavior of autonomous vehicles in challenging environments.

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.

American Farmer TV show to Explore Firestone Agriculture

07/13/17, 05:31 AM | Precision Farming, Processing & Supply Chain

DMG Productions explores advances in tire performance within the Ag industry.

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?

High-Accuracy, On-Demand Positioning-as-a-Service Now Available with Trimble Catalyst

07/06/17, 06:03 AM | Monitoring & Growing, Precision Farming

GNSS Receiver Service for Mobile Devices and New Mobile Apps Make Professional-Grade Positioning Easily Accessible

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