FUTURE

A good agronomist tends to end up being a precision or technology manager for the company. This makes sense because precision ag is simply applying agronomic principles at a higher...

Traveling irrigation system manufacturer Kifco and CODA Farm Technologies have formed a partnership to bring CODA’s FarmHQ retrofit cellular device and mobile app that provide real-time remote monitoring and control,...

A weather-based decision support system that originated 15 years ago in the tree fruit orchards of Washington state has branched into the region’s potato fields. The Pacific Northwest Potato Decision Aid...

Canada’s national potato magazine, SpudSmart, has selected the AgroScout crop monitoring solution as one of its Top 10 Most Innovative Products in the Potato Industry for 2022. Industry people from across the Canadian potato industry...

During the past several years, irrigation equipment manufacturers have been busy reinventing sprinkler systems to serve more as "hired hands" than just an efficient way to water crops. From running...

The genetic potential of high yielding varieties can be achieved only if quality seed is used together with good agricultural practices (GAP). Research in several SSA countries has developed agronomic...

ICL Speciality Fertilizers in the UK recently launched a new knowledge hub online to help growers understand the different types of efficiency fertilisers and benefits. The company says in a news post: “precision...

Critical shortage of quality seed of productive and adaptive varieties is probably the major constraint to potato production in SSA countries. The yield and quality of potato produced is dependent...

Precision agriculture practices involve more precise seeding, irrigation, fertilization, and pesticide use in order to optimize crop production for the purpose of increasing grower revenue and reducing the impact of...

AgroScout is an ag-tech company that aims to improve yield quality and quantity through visual inspection in the field. The company believes the main challenges in agriculture and crop management are pest...

In each Sub-Saharan African (SSA) country, there is a potato research and development that involves many actors (partners) ranging from input suppliers to consumers. There is, however, a disconnect between...

Aerial imagery aids diagnosis for Nielson, an agronomist for Walters Produce in Newdale, Idaho, making his scouting more efficient.

In 2021, AgTech had significant growth. According to Finistere Ventures' 2020 AgriFood Tech Investment Review, developed in collaboration with PitchBook Data, the total global investment in agrifood tech was $22.3 billion,...

One more tuber per meter of potato ridge can yield 250 euros extra per hectare. With 40 to 50 hectares of seed potatoes, that means 10,000 euros on an annual basis.'

A Digital Twin is a digital representation of a real-world thing. It can be used to monitor the real ‘thing’ remotely

Free-to-attend ‘AgTech’ events explore topics shaping startup innovation scene: robotics, digitalization, circular economy and soil healthLaunch event: 18 January 2022, 4-5 p.m. CET: ‘Agricultural robots: How robotics is changing agriculture’Also...

Editor’s note: The VISION Conference 2022 will feature expanded exploration of where innovation is rapidly driving change, including trends in high-value specialty crops, sustainability and carbon sequestration programs, and high-tech controlled environment...

DETROIT (Reuters) - John Deere & Co said on Tuesday it will start commercial delivery this year of technology that enables a tractor to till a field without an operator...

5G-NR is set to transform water management as it is a much faster technology. Monitoring infrastructure and irrigation water consumption in agriculture will become commonplace in the coming years. Remote...

Dr. Rashmi Singh, Scientist DST launching the AI based Mobile App developed by Research Scholar of Chandigarh University Amit Verma which can help farmers for the early detection of diseases...

CUPGRA's 32nd Annual Cambridge Potato Conference, which will see speakers challenging potato businesses and researchers to develop their vision for the future and to take concrete steps to put it...

To experience the effect of a soil scan, we followed this process for more than a year. 

Drones can help potato growers quickly detect alternaria. This was stated by Ruben van de Vijver of the Institute for Agricultural, Fisheries and Food Research (ILVO) during the Belgian potato fair...

The world's first autonomous potato harvester, called the Harvey.One, is bright red, has a caterpillar undercarriage and drives completely independently with two employees on the sorting platform who operate the...

Having the vantage point of 40 plus years to look out over the potato industry, one could expect many changes. Some were not even predictable.

The potato breeding world is taking in the whole picture when it comes to diploids.  The words diploids and true potato seeds have been popping up a lot in the...

Soiltech Wireless has a soil moisture sensor which is cheaper than competitors and can do more than just monitor water. Ehsan Soltan may not have an ag background, but he...

Production and trade representatives have approved the early potato concept 2022, Swisspatat reports. This remains basically the same as in previous years; the Colomba variety, which is new on the...

Here, you’ll find several precision Ag products that will give you a leg up by providing a deeper look at your farm, your crops and your practices.

Soiltech Wireless has a soil moisture sensor which is cheaper than competitors and can do more than just monitor water.

Wageningen University & Research (WUR) and its partners have developed a new type of aviation fuel, produced using potato waste streams. The possibility of making a promising airplane- type of...

In the spring of 2021, Belgium launched a large-scale scientific project aimed at obtaining information on the development and quality of potatoes in extreme weather conditions. Remote sensing was used...

UPL-Chr. Hansen partnership has already identified several projects relevant to farmers globally and aims to develop a product pipeline for all major crops that will enable farmers to fight crop...

Simone Caronni, Pietro Gaeli and Paolo Stefano Gentile who are students at ​​NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti), created the design as part of a course on ”sustainable design / materials and...

Hormel Foods Corporation, a global branded food company, recently announced its venturing company, 199 Ventures, has entered into an exclusive partnership with The Better Meat Co. to bring new mycoprotein...

The ideal plant for cultivation in space would provide as many nutrients from as few inputs as possible. Here, we discuss how biotechnology could be used to produce a potato...

Flying into the Andes mountains of Ecuador, XAG Agricultural Drones are recently introduced to a series of on-farm spray trials for high-altitude specialty crops. The demonstrations on potato fields have...

Imagine this scenario for the future – labor shortages will turn the recruitment of service personell into a real challenge. The increasing share of electronics, sensors and software will make...

Because potato growers need to identify and manage diseases in their fields, the AI-powered mobile app PlantVillage Nuru has been expanded to include them also. More than two million farmers...

Two U.S. scientists have won a 1 million euro ($1.18 million) prize for creating a ‘food generator’ concept that turns plastics into protein, reports Georgina Jadikovskaall in this article published by Zenger News....

The requirements being made on the productivity, comfort and safety of mobile machines in the off-highway sector are constantly increasing. Assistance systems and partially automated solutions are making it easier...

Manipulating RNA can allow plants to yield dramatically more crops, as well as increasing drought tolerance, according to research published in Nature Biotechnology. A group of scientists from the University...

The past year has been a doozy. Being locked up for a year and watching half a million Americans die was traumatizing. In the most productive agricultural country in the...

In the space of five years, Sencrop has grown into a major supplier of weather stations for so-called connected networks in Europe. The weather stations provide local and accurate weather data. By...

Looking ahead to the next 50 years, potato researchers and farmers have significant concerns about producing enough food under the stressors of climate change.

Giving exactly the input your crop needs is the key to the best harvest.

Potato growers on P.E.I. are turning to technology to help them track spores from late blight and other airborne diseases that could damage their crops.  One of the companies doing...

The agriculture industry — including both the potato and irrigation industries — has had its share of challenges to overcome in the last year. Through strength and resiliency, our industries...

In the same way virtual assistants help us discover our next favorite song, a new software package has used advanced machine learning to help farmers and agronomists pinpoint what their...

The use of drones in the agriculture industry is allows agronomists, agricultural engineers, and farmers to help streamline their operations, using robust data analytics to gain effective insights into their...