Trimble announced it has signed an agreement to acquire privately-held Müller-Elektronik, a German company specializing in implement control and precision farming solutions.

In this episode of the Precision Farming Dealer podcast, brought to you by Farmers Edge, we share excepts from my conversation with report author Ken Zuckerberg, RaboResearch F&A Farm Input Senior Analyst, to discuss this fourth wave known as digital ag and how it may be a catalyst for true standardization and streamlining of precision businesses.

The funding will be used to further develop American Robotics’ integrated drone system for commercial farming and to expand the team.

When the team at Tharsus Group wanted to consult an expert on agriculture automation, it realized there was only one person for the job. Prof. Simon Blackmore of Harper Adams University is the utmost authority on the design and build of agricultural and horticultural robots.

A group of maize farmers stands huddled around an agronomist and his computer on the side of an irrigation pivot in central South Africa. The agronomist has just flown over the pivot with a hybrid UAV that takes off and lands using propellers yet maintains distance and speed for scanning vast hectares of land through the use of its fixed wings.

In a new report from the RaboResearch Food & Ag group, the Farm Inputs team explores the status of precision farm/digital ag under the heavy umbrella of current commodity prices.

Sentera announced new additions to its small, lightweight high precision single sensor product family. The new High-Precision NDVI Single and High-Precision NDRE Single utilize patent-pending technology to improve spectral band separation and generate more accurate vegetation index measurements.

In this episode of the Precision Farming Dealer podcast, brought to you by Farmers Edge, we welcome Hannah Long, marketing manager at 4 Rivers Equipment, to share keys and difficulties to effectively communicating a consistent marketing message for a precision department and why simplicity is a proven path to connecting with customers.

Swift Navigation, a San Francisco-based startup building centimeter-accurate GPS technology to power a world of autonomous vehicles, in conjunction with Carnegie Robotics LLC (CRL), a robotic components and systems producer, announced their first joint product, Duro, a ruggedized version of Swift Navigation's flagship Piksi Multi dual-frequency RTK GNSS receiver.

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