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Emerging Agricultural Technologies

07/20/17, 08:10 AM | Lighting, 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 | Lighting, 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 | 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.

Sentera Grows High-Precision Line With Release of Quad Sensor

07/13/17, 09:01 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | 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 | Lighting, 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 | Lighting, 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, Lighting | AgTech, Monitoring, Sensors

XYZ Robot helps researchers develop hardier, weather-resistant crops

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?

SLANTRANGE Announces Working with Bayer to Advance Research Programs with Aerial Remote Sensing

07/07/17, 06:03 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | AgTech, drones

Bayer will be able to access SLANTRANGEs advanced data analytics to develop new high-throughput phenotyping techniques

Precision Farming Increases Crop Yields

07/06/17, 06:04 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | Precision Farming

Geoffrey Ling, Blake Bextine for Scientific American: Combining sensors and imaging of every plant with real-time data analytics improves farm outputs and reduces waste

'Near-zero-power' temperature sensor could make wearables, smart home devices less power-hungry

07/05/17, 06:58 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | Sensors

Liezel Labios for Tech Explore: This "near-zero-power" temperature sensor could extend the battery life of wearable or implantable devices that monitor body temperature, smart home monitoring systems, Internet of Things devices and environmental monitoring systems.

This quiet agricultural 'moonshot' could change the future of food

06/30/17, 06:03 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | AgTech, Precision Farming

Jenna Gallegos for The Washington Post: So how do you tackle the problem of feeding 9 billion people by 2050? Assemble an elite team of scientists for a year-long brainstorming session.

The 25 Most Innovative Ag-Tech Startups

06/29/17, 06:14 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | AgTech, Precision Farming

Maggie McGrath and Chloe Sorvino for Forbes: "You only get 40 attempts at farming. From your 20s to your 60s, you get 40 seasons,"

Infarm wants to put a farm in every grocery store

06/28/17, 06:16 AM | Lighting, Supply Chain | Hydroponics, vertical farming

Steve O'Hear for TechCrunch: Growing out from the centre, the basil is at ascending stages of its life, with the most outer positioned leaves ready for you, the customer, to harvest.

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