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Flurosat aims to reduce input and boost yield

22-05-2019 | Article

Flurosat aims to reduce input and boost yield

New CCI joystick vibrates and adjusts itself

22-05-2019 | News

New CCI joystick vibrates and adjusts itself

2017-12-27 14:31:50 This photo taken on December 27, 2017 shows a farmer using a mobile app while working in a rice field on the outskirts of Yangon. New smartphone apps are providing farmers with up-to-date information on everything from weather, climate change, crop prices to advice on pesticides and fertilisers. / AFP PHOTO / YE AUNG THU / TO GO WITH Myanmar-agriculture-economy-technology, FEATURE by Athens ZAW ZAW

21-05-2019 | News

200% increase in funding to agtech startups

2014-06-13 13:35:55 A picture taken on June 13, 2014 shows cherry tomatoes in a local business, in Paris. AFP PHOTO / PIERRE ANDRIEU PIERRE ANDRIEU / AFP

21-05-2019 | News

WUR challenge: producing tomato crop remotely using AI

Spectral analysis to predict photosynthetic capacity

21-05-2019 | News

Spectral analysis to predict photosynthetic capacity

The soil paradox

20-05-2019 | Expert opinion

The soil paradox

Contractor Cerfontaine would like to see a system that can automatically save continuous site-specific yield measurements of, initially, grain and onion fields. Photo: Peter Roek

20-05-2019 | News

Precision ag market to grow to $ 10.16 billion by 2024

Nitrogen fixing bacteria more available to US farmers

17-05-2019 | Article

Nitrogen fixing bacteria more available to US farmers

181797 Het spuiten van zaaiuien

16-05-2019 | News

Taranis identifies weeds and provides prescriptions

2018-02-16 17:18:53 French farmer Cedric Jullien (L) and a technician from Axe Environnement, which supplies tools for connected agriculture, study the images obtained from a drone to determine the best use of phytosanitary products on Jullien's fields in Semoine (Aube) on February 16, 2018. French farmer Cedric Jullien maps his fields with the help of drone technology. "I've been doing connected agriculture for four years," he says, hoping to "improve the viability" of his farm and "retrieve a maximum amount of information" on the plots that compose it. / AFP PHOTO / FRANCOIS NASCIMBENI

15-05-2019 | Expert opinion

Local solutions from global cooperation

epa06148523 Wheat is filled into a lorry during wheat harvest in Pushkino village, outside Moscow, Russia, 17 August 2017. Russia is a leading wheat export nation. A report published by the US Department of Agriculture expects Russia to export around 30 million tonnes of wheat in 2017-18. EPA/MAXIM SHIPENKOV

15-05-2019 | News

Machine-learning accurately predicts wheat yield

Brazilian agriculture connected with ConectarAGRO

14-05-2019 | News

Brazilian agriculture connected with ConectarAGRO

Garford bouwt onder andere camera-gestuurde schoffelmachines.

14-05-2019 | News

Zürn and Garford to make mechanical weeding smart

Fendt Momentum improves planting with smart technology

13-05-2019 | News

Fendt Momentum improves planting with smart technology

Wild tomato plant key to reduce pesticide use

10-05-2019 | News

Wild tomato plant key to reduce pesticide use

2012-06-14 15:28:09 This June 14, 2012 hand out picture shows a worker checking lettuces at the indoor farm of Spread company in its Kameoka factory in Kameoka city, Kyoto prefecture. A Japanese firm said on February 1, 2016 it would open the world's first fully automated farm with robots handling almost every step of the process, from watering seedlings to harvesting crops. Kyoto-based Spread said the indoor grow house will start operating by the middle of 2017 and produce 30,000 heads of lettuce a day. AFP PHOTO / HO / SPREAD RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / SPREAD" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS = SPREAD / AFP

09-05-2019 | Expert opinion

Disruption is a dangerous word for agtech