Tuesday, July 29th, 2014
In March 2014, the Obama Administration unveiled the Climate Data Initiative—a key deliverable of the President’s Climate Action Plan to cut carbon pollution in America, prepare communities for the impacts of climate change, and lead international efforts to address this global challenge. The Climate Data Initiative leverages the Federal Government’s vast and open data resources
Thursday, July 17th, 2014
The DLG (German Agricultural Society) Field Days 2014, held recently at the DLG Crop Protection Center at Bernberg-Strenzfeld, Germany, showcased many new innovations in crop production for the German and other European producers present.
Thursday, July 17th, 2014
An online stock route management system introduced by the Queensland Government to benefit local councils and graziers has won a major international award overnight.
Monday, July 14th, 2014
Child focused development organisation World Vision has joined an African Union partnership – along with eight other agencies – to reach millions of rural families with climate-smart agriculture approaches that will allow them to produce nutritious and environmentally sustainable crops.
Thursday, June 19th, 2014
Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today that it is adding another new agronomic service to its Connected Farm solution. The PurePixel Precision Vegetation Health Solution provides specialized processing of multi-spectral images used for crop health analysis. Field images processed with PurePixel technology provide farmers and their trusted advisors with a visual representation of the selected field’s
Wednesday, June 18th, 2014
CrescoAg Corporation (CrescoAg) and Raytheon Company (Raytheon) have entered into an exclusive agreement to develop a new generation of agricultural technologies and analytics designed to help agriculture producers increase productivity and manage their operations more efficiently.
Tuesday, June 17th, 2014
University of California, Riverside researchers have created a method that can classify different species of insects with up to 99 percent accuracy, a development that could help farmers protect their crops from insect damage and limit the spread of insect-borne diseases, such as malaria and Dengue fever.
Monday, June 16th, 2014
Climate change is changing the face of agriculture – rising temperatures, changing rainfall patterns and the evolution of pests and diseases all pose threats to food production. Modelling has been used extensively to predict the likely impacts of climate change on crop yields and ranges, but different studies give different answers, often as a consequence
Tuesday, June 10th, 2014
Helping farmers around the globe apply more-precise amounts of nitrogen-based fertilizer can help combat climate change. In a new study published in this week’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Michigan State University researchers provide an improved prediction of nitrogen fertilizer’s contribution to greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural fields.
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014
Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today a new agronomic service that is part of its Connected Farm™ solution. The new service, Soil Information System™ (SIS) solution, provides farmers and their trusted advisors with in-depth 3-D soil data they can use to make more informed decisions about their crop production goals. The SIS data is accessed through
