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 ...

"Flip the tortilla" ("virar la tortilla") is a common Puerto Rican expression. It describes the act of taking someone's argument and turning it on its head. This is precisely what the biotechnology ...

Precision agriculture involves the use of use of new technologies for greater efficiency. Through the use of cutting edge technology, farmers are now using precision agriculture to improve their ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Precision agriculture technology (tools like automated guidance, yield monitors, grid soil sampling, section control, and ...

Many of us mindlessly shop for food, fuel, clothing, home goods and more without thinking much about where it all comes from, forgetting that in most cases it all started on a farm. Most people are ...

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 ...