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 ...

Have you ever wondered how a company known for its tractors could become a leader in robotics and AI? John Deere is doing just that, revolutionizing the farming industry with cutting-edge technology.

On a farm in Phoenix, one person with an iPad can weed a field of vegetables that once required 20 workers on their hands and knees under a hot sun. The Duncan Family Farms employee controls the ...

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.” ...

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 ...

FarmBots are the latest in innovative agriculture, especially in urban farming where arable land is limited and space is at a premium, thanks to the latest research from the University of Maryland ...

George van Vlaanderen used to spend hours each day moving fences so his dairy goats could graze on fresh forage. Now an app does the job. Van Vlaanderen, who makes cheese and kefir at Does’ Leap Farm ...

Thad Becker uses precision agriculture to harvest soybeans Oct. 7 in Mexico, Mo. He’s spent thousands of dollars on high-tech farming tools that help him make farm management decisions, “We fixed so ...

March 11-15 marks Farm Journal’s Smart Farming Week, an annual week-long emphasis on innovation in agriculture. Visit AgWeb often during the week, watch “AgDay” every day and “U.S. Farm Report” on the ...

Jeremy Ford hates wasting water. As a mist of rain sprinkled the fields around him in Homestead, Florida, Ford bemoaned how expensive it had been running a fossil fuel-powered irrigation system on his ...