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Australia - New network to boost farm tech capabilities

06/26/17, 05:48 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | AgTech, IoT, Sensors

Gregor Heard for Queensland Country Life: The Rural IoT Network will provide the backbone infrastructure for shared networks of wireless sensors that constantly report on essential farm metrics.

Aimed at Bringing Open-Source Farming to Consumers, Cool Idea! Award Grant Helps FarmBot Maintain Momentum

06/22/17, 08:59 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | Crowd Funding, Urban Farming

FarmBot is an open-source, small-scale farming machine that gives individuals the power to create a digital garden using a desktop, laptop, tablet or phone. Through their Cool Idea! Award, the product's designers leveraged Proto Labs' on-demand injection molding service to decrease production costs and increase quality at scale.

Inelta rolls out new miniature inductive path sensors - medical, industrial, navigation, agriculture

06/22/17, 08:39 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting

ILAT from Inelta: Inductive Path Sensors in Miniature Format

Agriculture giants Bayer, Monsanto merging

06/22/17, 06:21 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting

John Boyd & Mike Weaver for The Hill: When they are done, the market will be dominated by two large and two smaller companies - spelling disaster for American farmers and consumers who will see food costs go up and innovation decline.

Myriad Mobile Introduces Industry-First Mobile Grain App Platform - Bushel™

06/22/17, 06:09 AM | Lighting

Automated platform for elevators delivers real-time data to growers

SenRa Selects Senet Managed Network Services to Support LoRaWAN™ IoT Network Roll Out in India

06/22/17, 06:08 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting

Partnership enables rapid deployment of LoRaWAN connectivity for millions of IoT devices

Trump heads to heartland for tech push

06/21/17, 02:19 PM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | AgTech, Precision Farming

Jonathan Easley, The Hill: Trump will visit Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, home of the nations largest two-year agricultural college program, to view the schools cutting edge "agricultural geo-spatial technology and precision farming" techniques.

AgTech - Not Just for Large Farms?

06/21/17, 05:58 AM | Lighting, Precision Farming | AgTech

Bryan M. Eagle III for Observer: From field monitoring and equipment telematics to livestock biometrics and market access, AgTech is transforming large farms. But what about smaller farms?

Lettuce-Weeding Robots, Coming Soon to a Farm Near You

06/19/17, 05:56 AM | Lighting, Precision Farming | Technology Discussions

Sonya Mann for Inc.com: Blue River Technology is building machines that help farmers manage their crops more efficiently.

Teal Group Predicts Worldwide Civil Drone Production Will Soar $73.5 Billion Over the Next Decade

06/19/17, 05:55 AM | Lighting | drones

"The civil drone market is ready to take off," said Philip Finnegan, Teal Group's director of corporate analysis and author of the study. Eased airspace regulations, a flood of outside investment, new UAS service offerings and the entry of leading technology companies are setting the stage for very rapid growth."

Fortune 500 Global AgTech Leader Expands Heliospectra Intelligent LED Lighting Implementation

06/19/17, 05:53 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting

Fifth Order Catalyzes Heliospectra's Market-Leading Adjustable Full Spectrum Lights and Control Software for Commercial Greenhouse and Indoor Crop Production

When Investors With No Ag Background Dive Into AgTech

06/16/17, 05:50 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | Funding, Investing, Technology Discussions

AgWeb.com: An influx of investors is bringing more money to seed-stage AgTech startups. And while that is an incredible thing for the industry at large, it certainly comes with its own set of challenges.

New funding to grow food for a better future

06/15/17, 08:58 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | Business Development, vertical farming

We realize that were only at the beginning of the Bowery journey and we couldnt have asked for a better group of investors to help us grow in this next stage.

5 precision ag technologies to watch

06/14/17, 06:44 AM | Lighting, Precision Farming | drones, Farm Tech, Precision Farming

Catie Noyes for Farm and Dairy: The world of digital agriculture is continuing to advance before our eyes, says John Fulton, associate professor in Ohio States College of Food Agriculture and Biological Engineering.

Geosys Launches Partnership Program To Address Agricultural Challenges

06/14/17, 06:33 AM | Lighting, Precision Farming

'Geosys Labs' participants will have access to company's tools and expertise at no cost

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