Items Tagged with 'ag technology'

In this joint opinion piece, Alex Echols, environment Program Strategist for Agriculture for the Keith Campbell Foundation, and Roger Wolf, executive director of the Agriculture’s Clean Water Alliance and director of conservation at the Iowa Soybean Association Research Center for Farming Innovation, discuss engaging ag retailers to be key leaders in advancing conservation adoption.

Agricultural productivity continues to fall below the needed targets to meet the global demands of feeding nearly 10 billion people by 2050 as outlined by the latest Global Agricultural Productivity report.

In what is being touted as the biggest ag technology deal in history, AGCO, a major ag and technology equipment company, announced Thursday a joint venture with Trimble‘s portfolio of agricultural assets and technologies.

A new Aimpoint Research report, which delves into the psychographics, demographics, and behavioral data of U.S. farmers in a post-pandemic but still volatile environment, indicates the pace of change across American agriculture is moving at a faster rate than previously predicted. 

A House bill introduced Thursday would address one of the top farm bill goals for specialty crop growers by setting up a grant program to ease the cost of adopting automation in their operations.