Precision Planting, LLC a subsidiary of AGCO Corporation, a leading provider of practical and effective precision ag technologies to help make farmers smarter every season, announced an agreement to ...

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Optical sensors that can inspect and treat crops are helping farmers optimize their harvests by adjusting how much fertilizer they apply, finds Martin Griffiths During the Second World War, the US ...

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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 help ...

Biosensing engineer Azahar Ali, assistant professor of animal sciences and biological systems engineering at Virginia Tech, is bracing for the arrival of a fourth agricultural revolution. It's an era ...

“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 ...

Experts from around the world recently gathered for the World Food Prize’s annual Norman E. Borlaug International Dialogue to explore modern agriculture's most pressing challenges. After that ...

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