The world of agriculture has never experienced such rapid innovation in technology, new products, equipment and research than any other time in history. Here's a look at some of those advancements.

Trimble Navigation Ltd is moving into new markets like railroads, water management, and electric utilities to improve productivity and cut costs with its positioning technology, Barron's said in its May 27 edition.

Colorado has become the center of gravity for the next generation of global positioning technology - GPS III - which is expected to deliver three times as much accuracy, three times as much power and provide users worldwide with dramatically improved coverage from sea to mountain valley.

DISTek Integration Inc., introduces VIRTEC, an ISOBUS 11783-compliant software library for agricultural manufacturers to enable vehicle-to-implement communication via virtual terminal consoles.

Ongoing drought conditions and water management needs jumpstart an emerging precision market.

Cogent3D, Inc, announces contract award to assist USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service to re-engineer their mobile workforce with a new Mobile Conservation Planner App using iCropTrak to allow NRCS staff to spend more time with client collaboration and conservation efforts in the field.

Tractor rollovers are the single deadliest type of farm accident in the United States. Latest figures from the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) said there are approximately 250 tractor rollover fatalities each year.

Unmanned aerial systems and remote sensing company Winehawk Labs announced today they will release a new model of their successful UAV platform in May of 2013 to coincide with company re-branding.

iCropTrak iPad Farm Management App has announced iCropTrak Version 3.1 with live weather station data added to every measurement and field.

Raven Industries has announced a new Slingshot API implementation with ZedX, Inc., a leader in agricultural information technology solutions. With this implementation, the user's Slingshot data is now transmitted wirelessly from the field and is fully integrated into the ZedX