Smart farming

What needs to happen to make data-driven precision ag work well for farmers? Future Farming poses this question to scientists from various countries. - Photo: Canva

17-01-2023 | Article

How do we get data-driven farming to work for farmers? Part 1: The Dutch approach

When it comes to precision ag, we're still in the early phases, according to Dr. Steve Shirtliffe. - Photo: Canva

13-01-2023 | Article

Precision ag – what lies ahead

High crop prices are giving farmers around the world cause for cautious optimism and encourage them to invest in agtech. Western countries are leading ag tech adoption, with farm management software being the top technology followed by precision agriculture hardware. - Photo: Canva

28-12-2022 | News

McKinsey: High crop prices encourage farmers to invest in agtech

Arable's Mark 3 is an in-field sensing and communication device that measures the weather, plant, soil and irrigation flow all in one crop intelligence system. - Photo: Arable

06-12-2022 | News

Arable unveils Mark 3 in-field sensing device and Arable Vision

Growth of the market size of weeding robots such as this Dino (by French company Naïo Technologies) is driven by problems such as water scarcity, overuse of chemicals, decline of biodiversity, greenhouse gas emissions and eutrophication - Photo: Naïo Technologies

28-11-2022 | News

IDTechEx: Market size of weeding robots to increase 11-fold in five years

The Geo-Bird operational planning tool offers farmers a free way to improve the efficiency of their operations with optimised machine guidance waylines. - Photo: Business Wire

23-11-2022 | News

Free AGCO tool to plan and optimise GNSS machine guidance lines

Thanks to the partnership with Trimble Agriculture, farmers using the xFarm app will access more data about vehicles equipped with Trimble systems. - Photo: xFarm Technologies

16-11-2022 | News

xFarm Technologies’ smart farming app integrates with Trimble

Farmers pump water to irrigate a rice field in Zixing, Hunan Province, China. Netafim announced the first ever carbon credit program for drip-irrigated rice in order to reduce emissions and inputs. - Photo: CFOTO/Sipa USA

15-11-2022 | News

Netafim announces carbon credit program for drip-irrigated rice

Waterapps uses meteorological weather data integrated with the indigenous knowledge of the farmers. - Photo: Canva

09-11-2022 | News

Long-term weather forecast app to help farmers with climate adaptation

07-07 | Article

Robot swarm boosts big yield in Brazil

06-07 | Article

Ullmanna Newman saves up to 90% on labour costs

Autonomous and smart machines take center stage at Agritechnica 2025