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 promises to make farming more efficient and should have an important impact on the serious issue of food security, according to a new study. A scientist assesses how there is ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

For much of modern agricultural history, even as farm machinery became larger and faster, fields were generally managed as though every square meter behaved the same way. Fertilizers, pesticides, and ...

“It is 5 a.m. A Midwest farmer sips coffee in front of a computer. Up-to-the-minute satellite images show a weed problem in a field on the north-west corner of the farm. At 6:30 a.m., the farmer ...

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?

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 ...

No audio available for this content. An exclusive interview with Chad Huedepohl, precision agriculture portfolio manager, Autonomy & Positioning division at Hexagon. Read the full story and additional ...

The development of precision farming practices will provide the EU with enormous opportunities to increase its productivity, according to a European Commission official. The development of precision ...