precision agriculture
Topcon Agriculture launches transplanting technology
Topcon Agriculture has introduced a navigation system designed to reduce labor, boost efficiency and increase production. Transplanting Control provides global navigation satellite system (GNSS) based guidance, autosteering and control, benefitting producers of permanent and perennial... more »
CropX acquires irrigation company Tule Technologies
CropX Technologies, a global leader in digital solutions for agronomic farm management, has acquired Tule Technologies, a precision irrigation company based in California. This acquisition brings new data capture technologies to the CropX Agronomic Farm Management System and... more »
Field of Machines: Automation eases some tasks, but focus is on harvest
FRESNO, Calif. – As Congress prepares yet again to consider agriculture labor reform through the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, dozens of autonomous sprayers, weeders and cultivators are entering fields, orchards and vineyards every day in... more »
Drone industry launches into specialty agriculture market
Drone scouts are poised to make precision agriculture even more exact as drone technology advances. Drones have already arrived at farms, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Seventeen percent of all commercial registered drones in... more »
Current Issue
Ohio grower finds direct sales financially, personally satisfying
Pest, disease damage expected, harvest impacts uncertain
Survey shows … inflation, competition factor in farm market pricing
Taking control: CA storage for asparagus extends season
Steam, chemicals offer weed and pathogen control options
Ionized gas used for food safety
Precision Ag: It’s all about meeting the needs of each plant
Seven takeaways from benchmark survey of markets
Ag Labor Review: Grower concerns help shape NCAE’s mission
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