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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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Minsk Tractor Works has published a video  with its newest tractor - the autonomous BELARUS А3523і. The drone plows confidently in the field. The official premiere of the first Belarusian unmanned tractor BELARUS...

The BioScope FieldScout app has won a golden Dutch Interactive Award 2021 in the Tools category. The election is an initiative of Emerce, the platform for digital marketing and e-business. The...

Some of these new irrigation tech technologies will be showcased in a couple of virtual sessions during Potato Expo 2021.

The Irrigation Association (IA) announces that July 2021 has once again been designated as Smart Irrigation Month

A group of researchers in Canada are using precision agriculture to map field management zones.

There is significant opportunity for growers to increase farm profits and conserve water by quickly detecting and correcting common drip irrigation issues like plugs, leaks and pressure issues.

Ways fixation might occur naturally or industrially

Recent farmdoc daily articles have discussed the importance of new technologies to crop agriculture, the value and role of information in the adoption of technologies , and possible payoffs for...

The easier the decision-supporting data on the smartphone , the more effective the crop protection

“The use of the SprayPlanner certainly provides an added value in order to carry out spraying activities at the best possible moment. Especially now that fewer and fewer crop protection...

HZPC has decided to stop developing and supplying digital agricultural products and services through its subsidiary Solentum

New sensor technology from Stenon enables soil analysis to be conducted as often as required and with immediate results and with laboratory precision.

ARA is an ultra-high precision sprayer that is mounted behind a tractor. It is able to distinguish crops from weeds, and can spray only crops, or spray only the weeds.

DEVELOPED WITH THE FARMER, FROM THE GROUND UP.

In addition to sugar beets, the sowing and weeding robot is also suitable for the cultivation of onions and rapeseed.

The three-row Dino weeding robot from Naïo Technologies has no problem hoeing between the arugula plants on a test field in Zeeland, Brabant. At the same time as the growth in...

“Siberian Tiger” is designed to monitor crops and soil conditions, using a set of cameras and sensors. Siberian Tiger, a new Russian agricultural robot by Agrirobot, is expected to begin...

With the fifth generation mobile network (5G), a grower can follow the potato from planting to shedding throughout the season. Scouting in the crop and looking for diseased plants can also...

Research done by Solinftec showed that U.S. ag retailers’ machines were idle 30% of the time and traveling 35% of the time. That left only 35% of the time for...

NPPGA ramps up digital to keep message fresh, timely. Communication within every company and association is key, particularly during these times of less in-person time and more face-to-face via app...

The rules regarding crop registration are being observed more and more strictly, also in Belgium. It is therefore not easy to keep track of everything during a season. The CropVision program from...

M2M, also known as “Machine-to-Machine Communication,” is exactly what it sounds like. It stands for two machines “communicating” together. The term is broadly used to describe the technology that enables...

A low-cost robotic platform which can be fitted with almost any agricultural implement could help farmers across the UK to overcome the lack of available manual labour. The Robotriks Traction...

Participants in the webinar about agricultural robots want to work together in a new ecosystem to play a key role worldwide. It is precisely the robot builders who collaborated with industrial...

Affordable agricultural robots are on the horizon according to Robotriks, part of a cluster of technology companies based at Plymouth University. As analysts predict the agricultural technology market will reach...

 Farmobile LLC, Agriculture’s Independent Data Company™, today announced that The Fertilizer Institute (TFI), the leading voice of the fertilizer industry, is supporting through outreach the advancement of agronomic and machine-collected data...

One of the country’s biggest potato producers is using an innovative app to improve the marketable yield and efficiency of its crops. The Elveden Estate is using the Crop4Sight management tool to...

AUSVEG and the EnviroVeg Program have joined a collaboration of horticulture industry groups in a new project investigating the use of remote monitoring, to support vegetable producers automate the collection...

A high-tech mobile surveillance unit was delivered at the end of October as part of Hort Innovation’s multi-agricultural industry surveillance initiative – iMapPESTS. The iMapPESTS: Sentinel Surveillance for Agriculture program is researching and...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Using the right apps can improve your communication and increase efficiency on your farm. Dennis Buckmaster, agricultural and biological engineering professor at Purdue University, shared tips...

I feel like it was about 5 years ago when the gates were opened to the ag data land rush. Small ag-tech companies and multinational legacy companies all entered the...

Questions of data replication are now being asked by those concerned about data ownership. Questions around data ownership have been long discussed in and outside the agriculture sector – but...

Can intelligent technology help ensure value chains can continue to function uninterrupted in the face of a future pandemic? How can we cost-effectively collect and utilize soil data to automate...

Quality and traceability, two important requirements of potato fresh packing, are threatened by market disruptions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. Lockdowns have increased home-cooking and the popularity of fresh potatoes,...

Society is increasingly dependent on technology. However, not everyone has equal access. According to the World Economic Forum (WEF), people in developing countries are at risk of being left behind during the...

Data-driven decisions based on weather information are helping East Anglian farms cut the cost and environmental impact of crop spraying – with the help of a new free-to-use sensor network....

From comprehensive ag tech consulting to robotic specialization and support, dealers and industry experts share their vision for how opportunities and objectives will change. Asking dealers to dust of their...