Necessity is the mother of invention, and farming is facing a bunch of necessities. There’s a major worker shortage. Farm land is shrinking while world population growth calls for higher food ...

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As the world population continues to grow and the human population becomes more urbanized, there is an increasing demand for food. This has led to a rise in the use of agricultural technology and ...

Soil maintenance and crop monitoring practices on America’s farms are increasingly accomplished with artificial intelligence rather than bare hands.

In our current day and age, there are multiple threats to agricultural sustainability. But in this technological era, there are solutions not yet widely explored. "Computational agroecology or ...

James Dyson, known mainly for his innovative vacuum cleaner technology company, has taken on a new challenge: transforming the way we farm. With the acquisition of a vast expanse of English farmland, ...

Aided by significant advancements in technology, farming innovation really began to pick up during the second half of the 20th century and into the beginning of the 21st century. Today, these ongoing ...

Grant Norwood has done field trials with sensors, hardware, and biological startups. And he’s proud to be part of the network he says is “where inventors meet farmers to solve agriculture’s problems.” ...

"Boy, it must be hard selling to farmers. They HATE technology." When I hear this, I smile and explain that farmers are actually incredible innovators before quickly changing topics. People who say ...

About five years ago, David Wallace spent the summer on his family’s potato farm in the Skagit Valley area of Washington State. Wallace had grown up on the farm, but he left to pursue chemistry, ...

New York City-based vertical farming company, Bowery Farming, has appointed former Google Internet of Things (IoT) VP and general manager, Injong Rhee, as its new chief technology officer (CTO) ...