TECHNOLOGY
Robbing crop seed or smuggling pathogens, the most devastating raid of ag tech in U.S. history continues at a blistering pace.
New state laws and a county-wide broadband network are turning science fiction into reality, allowing autonomous tractors and drones to revolutionize the nation’s leafy green production.
A father-son duo turned a 3D-printed project into an autonomous solution that levels grain and breaks up crust in grain bins.
Adron Belk uses data to cut costs, improve yields and make every decision, from fertilizer usage to what tire pressure he uses when planting. The precision-driven strategy is what’s helping drive profitability.
“The value of drones on the farm, as high as it is today,” says Russell Hedrick, “will soon go up to levels not even imagined yet.”
A new AI-driven platform, Acre Almanac, decodes any number of years of your private farm data to help you separate environmental luck from high-impact agronomic choices.
John Deere is testing a 350-hp E98 ethanol tractor across the Midwest. Early trials show promise, but infrastructure might decide how fast farmer-grown fuel can power the future of farm equipment.
Amid the highest copper prices in history, thieves now must tangle with a watchman that never sleeps.
A first-of-its-kind academic analysis looks at labor rates and current autonomous solutions to spur a discussion on the tipping point for when the tech pays.
What AI will not change is the farmer’s fundamental role. We will always plant seeds, care for crops, and harvest food. Our traditional knowledge will remain vital. But AI will increasingly enhance our decision-making and efficiency.
Preemptive control of heavy-hitting diseases like white mold, frogeye leaf spot, Cercospora leaf blight and others is now possible thanks to specially designed soybeans that act like an early warning system, enabling proactive fungicide treatments and yield protection.
McCarty Family Farms of Kansas earns the 2025 Leader in Technology Award for transforming their operation into a high-tech, 20,000-cow operation driven by innovation, data and bold decision-making.
The project has two goals: support retail agronomists in their recommendations and support decisions with a focus on return on investment.
Ken Ferrie addresses how farmers can determine what tillage depth to establish, where to run the tool, and when to use the cutters and shanks. But before he can offer those specific details, farmers need to be able to answer one important question.
Bitcoin will fundamentally change farming forever, contends a growing chorus within agriculture.
Having your information compromised is a matter of when, not if, says Chris Sherman from Tech Support Farm.
Researchers at Purdue spent years working with NASA engineers to figure out how to grow crops on Mars and beyond. Now the data is yielding surprising results.
“We’re doubling down, allotting capital on digital innovation for FBN’s future,” says Diego Casanello, CEO of FBN.
Serial entrepreneurs Jack Oslan and Nate Storey have a thesis that artificial intelligence can provide real-time soil nutrient analysis for row crop agriculture.
Agriculture is at the heart of the newly launched HARVEST program, which is replacing the previous IN2 program.
A smart technology purchase starts with asking the right questions — so you can invest with confidence instead of impulse.
Agriculture is complex, and the AgLaunch farmer network helps early-stage startups get traction
With an aim to bring new tools to advance regenerative agriculture, these companies see microbiome soil tests as complements to traditional soil testing.
Farmers and aerial applicators tell Randy Dowdy and David Hula some of the key considerations for effective fungicide applications are timing, droplet size and product reach in the crop canopy.
Company says RNA technology can directly target pests and potentially slash application frequency.
In a proof of concept moment, AgLaunch and 42 of its farmer network members, announce they have cashed out an early investment in an irrigation technology startup.
These space weather events can disturb the Earth’s magnetic field and at this severe level cause “more frequent and longer periods of GPS degradation.”