Over the past several decades, satellite imagery has emerged as one of the most valuable new tools in modern agriculture.

Big data startup 640 Labs has created a device that attaches to tractors and other farm equipment to measure activity during planting and harvesting.

Iott Seed Farms produces seed potatoes used to grow spuds for potato chips near Kalkaska in northwest Michigan. Owners Dennis and Greg Iott also grow wheat, rye and sudex in their potato rotation. This specialty crop presents challenges as the Iotts strive to collect better data to fine-tune their cropping system.

Farmers, crop advisers and consultants can use new technology from a Purdue Research Park-based firm to organize, store and share findings from scouting trips to their fields and orchards.

If your only experience with growing food is in your garden, on a small scale, you can be forgiven for thinking that farming is a low-tech endeavor.

Farmers from across the nation gathered in Washington this month for what has become an annual trek to seek action on the most important matters in American agriculture, such as immigration reform and water regulations.

Valley Irrigation has announced the release of a new soil moisture monitoring technology called Valley SoilPro 1200, powered by AquaSpy.

RoboFlight Systems LLC., a geo-referenced aerial data company that processes, analyzes, and manages multi-spectral aerial imagery data, is proud to announce its intent to independently assist Wal-Mart in reaching newly announced water pollution and agriculture production efficiency goals through the use of its breakthrough UAV platforms and their industry leading remote sensor data analysis software, AgPixel.

Wheat Growers has joined the Rural Tower Network, a growing tower network that brings the precision and repeatability of Real Time Kinematic (RTK) to Farmland in South Dakota, North Dakota and Minnesota.