https://www.bizcommunity.com/224/707.html United States news 15 Agri Tech news - United States https://www.bizcommunity.com/res/img/logo.gif https://www.bizcommunity.com/224/707.html en-us Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:50:33 +0200 https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/1/472/230476.html Farmers are adopting precision agriculture, using data collected by GPS, satellite imagery, internet-connected sensors and other technologies to farm more efficiently. While these practices could help increase crop yields and reduce costs, the technology behind the practices is creating opportunities for extremists, terrorists and adversarial governments to attack farming machinery, with the aim of disrupting food production. 1-230476 Thu, 11 Aug 2022 09:55:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Agriculture Technology United States https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/1/707/220675.html The winners of the 2021 edition of the annual International Innovation Award for Sustainable Food Systems have been announced. The awards, a joint initiative of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Federal Government of Switzerland, were announced in a virtual ceremony with the participation of FAO director-general QU Dongyu and Christian Hofer, director-general of the Federal Office for Agriculture of Switzerland. 1-220675 Mon, 04 Oct 2021 09:51:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Agriculture Technology United States https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/1/358/214911.html Global food supply chains proved brittle during the Covid-19 pandemic, leading for calls to boost the resilience of global food supply chains through improved efficiency in production, distribution and consumption of nutritious food. How could technologies like blockchain that provide data to producers, distributors and consumers be part of the solution? 1-214911 Fri, 16 Apr 2021 07:26:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Agriculture Technology United States https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/1/707/210662.html According to a new study by Juniper Research, the total value of the agtech market will reach $22.5bn by 2025; rising from $9bn in 2020. This represents an average annual growth rate of 150% over the next five years. 1-210662 Thu, 26 Nov 2020 08:34:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Agriculture Technology United States https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/1/707/208368.html Depending on who you listen to, artificial intelligence may either free us from monotonous labour and unleash huge productivity gains, or create a dystopia of mass unemployment and automated oppression. In the case of farming, some researchers, business people and politicians think the effects of AI and other advanced technologies are so great they are spurring a "fourth agricultural revolution". 1-208368 Wed, 16 Sep 2020 11:07:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Agriculture Technology United States https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/183/207052.html Six months ago, you may not have thought much about where your groceries were produced. But chances are you're thinking about it now. 1-207052 Thu, 06 Aug 2020 15:30:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Agriculture Technology United States https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/399/199418.html LG Electronics (LG) is tapping into the booming indoor gardening movement with the launch of its first home gardening appliance, set to be unveiled at CES 2020 in Las Vegas this week. The built-in column-type gardening appliance employs advanced light, temperature and water control, convenient all-in-one seed packages and a growth-monitoring app to help users cultivate greens inside their own homes. 1-199418 Mon, 06 Jan 2020 13:50:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Agriculture Technology United States https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/707/187967.html South Africa startup Aerobotics has announced the expansion of its Series A funding round to $4m, through a signed deal with Paper Plane Ventures. The announcement came during Aerobotics new office launch event on Wednesday, 27 February 2019 in De Waterkant, Cape Town. James Paterson, Aerobotics co-founder and CEO commented: "We are grateful that Paper Plane Ventures has put their faith and capital in our company, which we will use to expand our growth in South Africa, the United States and around the world and increase our ability to help farmers and partners in the agriculture industry." 1-187967 Fri, 01 Mar 2019 09:41:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Agriculture Technology United States https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/306/186859.html When a Chinese consumer buys a package labelled "Australian beef", there's only a 50-50 chance the meat inside is, in fact, Australian beef. It could just as easily contain rat, dog, horse or camel meat - or a mixture of them all. It's gross and dangerous, but also costly. 1-186859 Wed, 30 Jan 2019 15:30:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Agriculture Technology United States https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/183/182895.html European retail giant Carrefour has joined other participants involved in building the IBM Food Trust blockchain network, adopting the technology to improve the traceability of food products with plans to expand to all Carrefour brands by 2022. 1-182895 Thu, 11 Oct 2018 09:00:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Agriculture Technology United States