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Bosch and BASF Announce Smart Farming Joint Venture
Reading Time: 2 minutes The 50/50 joint venture (JV) between Bosch and BASF Digital Farming to globally market and sell smart farming technologies from a single source has now
Editor’s Opinion – Sustainability isn’t an option it’s a moral responsibility
Reading Time: 3 minutes As we journey into a 5G connected world the challenge of achieving true sustainability becomes more relevant than ever. Energy efficiency needs to be a
Vertical farming expected to grow worldwide
Reading Time: 2 minutes The future of farming may not be neat rows of crops stretching out toward the horizon, but trays of plants stacked high to the ceilings
Red Sea Farms raises $10 million to expand across Saudi
Reading Time: 3 minutes Red Sea Farms, a Saudi Arabian agritech business whose one-of-a-kind technology enables the commercial farming of produce using primarily salt water, received a $10 million
Vertical farming method to produce UK strawberries ‘nine months a year’
Reading Time: 2 minutes The strawberries are produced in vertically stacked beds under fully controlled conditions, with plants watered using a hydroponic feed instead of in the soil. Strawberries
Robot uses machine learning to harvest lettuce
Reading Time: 3 minutes A vegetable-picking robot that uses machine learning to identify and harvest a commonplace, but challenging, agricultural crop has been developed by engineers. For a human,
Inadequate broadband threatening farmers’ livelihoods
Reading Time: 2 minutes British Telecom (BT) and satellite operator OneWeb, which is partly owned by the UK government, have reached an agreement that will see the two working together to
Improving wheat yield predictions with crop image technology
Reading Time: 2 minutes Wheat is one of the most important crop types in food production worldwide. Due to increasing food demand and rising population, it is necessary to
The Future of Food Production is Insight
Reading Time: 2 minutes Leading Agri-Food software developer KisanHub have launched Reporting and Analytics Dashboardsto provide fast, convenient access to business-critical supply chain data for Producer Groups. The Dashboards
New tech can track vehicles, drones and cargo remotely within centimetres
Reading Time: 2 minutes Pinpoint accuracy is critical to the acceptance and mass adoption of autonomous vehicles not just on the road but in factories, airports, dockyards and any
The Latest Advancements in Safe Positioning Systems for Agricultural Robots
Reading Time: 6 minutes As the agricultural robotics industry continues to progress at a lightning-fast pace, it’s easy to forget that certain technologies have become decidedly old-school. Global positioning
Urban Agriculture – What’s it all about?
Reading Time: 3 minutes For as long as traditional outdoor crops are exposed to ever-volatile climates around the globe there will always be variations in agricultural yields. However, agriculture
World’s largest indoor vertical farm commences construction
Reading Time: 2 minutes Aerofarms, a leader in indoor vertical farming has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary in the UAE, AeroFrarms AgX LTD has commenced the construction of
Nanotech and AI could hold key to unlocking global food security challenge
Reading Time: 3 minutes ‘Precision agriculture’ where farmers respond in real time to changes in crop growth using nanotechnology and artificial intelligence (AI) could offer a practical solution to
The world’s first digital fence for livestock
Reading Time: < 1 minute Nofence is an agritech company improving sustainability in agriculture by replacing the need for physical fences – infield and outfield. Their digital fence solution makes it
Farmers sought in fight against new grass weed
Reading Time: 2 minutes Farmers are being asked to assist in a new study looking at the spread of rat’s tail fescue, a grass weed that is already posing
Finding True Value at the Edge
Reading Time: 2 minutes You’d have to be living in a cave not to have heard the quote “data is the new oil” over the past twelve months or
New Agri-informatics facility to help accelerate pace of digital agriculture adoption
Reading Time: 3 minutes A new £3.2 million Agri-informatics facility has been officially opened at Cranfield University by Rt Hon. George Eustice MP, the Secretary of State for Environment,
Farms of the future: The bigger picture
Reading Time: 3 minutes “We’re looking at a future where farmers will be operating their businesses in an agritech environment fully underpinned by automation, artificial intelligence and real-time data.”
Sustainability: Can we win the war on plastic?
Reading Time: 6 minutes The Plastic Pollution Debate. The Plastic Pandemic. War on Plastic. Call it what you like but it’s impossible to ignore the global backlash against the