At SAP Leonardo Live last month, the most interesting presentation was by Cristiano Buss, the CIO of Stara S/A. Stara is a Brazilian manufacturer of farm equipment. The company has gone through two ...

Precision agriculture stocks are involved in the manufacturing and supplying of technologies used to improve farming practices. Such technologies include big data and analytics, GPS and GIS mapping, ...

Farmers are adopting precision agriculture, using data collected by GPS, satellite imagery, internet-connected sensors, and other technologies to farm more efficiently. While these practices could ...

Precision agriculture involves the use of use of new technologies for greater efficiency. Through the use of cutting edge technology, farmers are now using precision agriculture to improve their ...

Whether it comes from rain or dew or a farmer's sprayer, water forms droplets on the waxy surfaces of plants A farmer programming the GPS control unit on his tractor before planting corn. This widely ...

Precision agriculture provides many benefits for farmers and can help suppliers manage food. But with a myriad of issues, including regulation and farmer adoption, will we ever see widespread use?

Many of us mindlessly shop for food, fuel, clothing, home goods and more without thinking much about where it all comes from, forgetting that in most cases it all started on a farm. Most people are ...

Food is perhaps the best known consumable product, and the economic laws of supply and demand are pointing to an emerging pain point unlike any we have seen in recent history. To combat this looming ...

Taranis, an ag-tech startup that uses aerial scouting and deep learning to identify potential crop issues, announced today that it has raised a $20 million Series B led by Viola Ventures. Existing ...

Once only accessible to large commercial farms, technological innovation is beginning to bring the benefits of precision agriculture to everyone else. Photo: artiemedvedev/iStock / Getty Images ...

Thousands of years ago, agriculture began as a highly site-specific activity. The first farmers were gardeners who nurtured individual plants, and they sought out the microclimates and patches of soil ...