Machine connectivity has evolved from a “nice to have” to an absolute necessity as farmers embrace digital agriculture, or Smart Farming, in greater numbers. “In rural America there are areas without ...

The data revolution is underway in agriculture, writes the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in a 2023 report titled “Smart Farming: the transformative potential of data-driven ...

That’s why the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) partnered with The University of ...

Groups hope the Biden administration’s guidelines will be used for a clean fuels tax credit, but it’s not clear whether the Trump administration will do so. Biofuel industry groups urged the Trump ...

Automation and robots are becoming mainstays in many industries, but researchers and farmers in China are taking innovation ...

University of Delaware faculty member Kent Messer will investigate how to accelerate farmers’ adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices through the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) ...

Farm groups and recipients of USDA grants are trying to find out if promised money for conservation projects is still coming. The Agriculture Department’s $3.1 billion program to promote farm ...

Farming has always involved risk. Risk of pestilence, water shortages or excess, and weather events are only a few of the conditions affecting successful crop growth. Applied nutrients and crop ...

America’s farms don’t just run on corn and cattle. They also run on cash from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Every year, the USDA spends billions of dollars to keep farmers in business. It hands ...

Smart agriculture refers to the use of technologies such as IoT, sensors, location systems, automation, robotics and AI/ML on farms. The main goal of smart agriculture is greater efficiency and ...

The African Development Bank Group has approved a $200 million loan to support climate-smart and technology-driven agriculture in Nigeria. The ...

When I was a boy growing up in KwaBhaca in the Eastern Cape, springtime didn’t arrive with a date on a calendar. The land told you. Suddenly, there were daisies across the hills. Yellow, orange and ...