It didn’t take long for the team at Sabanto to make their mark in the ag tech industry. They started building their first autonomy kit from scratch in a 3-car garage in September 2019, and just 7 months later were autonomously planting in the field.

Verdant Robotics announced the close of a $46.5 million series A funding round – one of the largest investments in ag robotics to date. Verdant Co-founder Curtis Garner says the funding will enable the company to scale its fleet, build more machines and cover more acres.

Precision Planting’s new sprayer technology ReClaim is officially available to buy in the U.S. and Canada. We first learned about the product about a year ago at the company’s annual winter conference. ReClaim is a boom recirculation system designed to make sure farmers get their boom fully primed with the right concentration of products without having to spray a drop of chemical on the ground, eliminating crop damage and hot spots at the edge of the field.

We got an up-close look at the machine in action at the John Deere Training Center. We caught up with Deere Product Tillage Manager Steve Sporrer and asked him why the company is re-entering the strip-till game, and how the new unit pairs with their precision technology.

We’re taking the Technology Corner on the road to FIRA USA 2022, the premiere ag robotics and technology forum at the Convention Center in downtown Fresno, California. When you walk in, the first thing that catches your eye is GUSS – the autonomous sprayer for orchards and vineyards.

AMVAC’s SIMPAS system is taking prescription application to a new level. Retailers and farmers got an up-close look at the new technology during a special summit in Rockford, Illinois this past week.

The results of the ninth annual Precision Farming Dealer benchmark study — with contributions from dozens of farm equipment dealers, input retailers and independent precision companies — show that nearly three-fourths of dealers are forecasting revenue growth from precision to be up at least 2% in 2021, despite inventory challenges.