The soil under your feet is still as mysterious as the ocean’s depths. The soil is a dynamic ecosystem with physical attributes that help determine storage capacity of the soil relative to fertility, and water and biological attributes make the soil a living, breathing organism. Even after years of study, there remains much to learn…
Precision agriculture is trending toward complete automated solutions for farm efficiency, increased yield and less waste, say Israeli experts. Israeli precision agriculture started with a drip and became a deluge. The “drip” is drip irrigation. The single most significant advance in modern agriculture, invented in Israel by Simcha Blass and his son Yeshayahu in 1959, increases…
From reducing labor needs to water management, new ag tools are making food production more efficient. It was no accident that Forbes held its third annual AgTech Summit in farm-rich Salinas,Calif., just a few miles south of Silicon Valley last week. The two worlds barely knew each other 10 years ago. But today, high-tech entrepreneurs…
Some days it seems like the world is going to end in a sudden fireball. Other times we predict a slow, painful death. It’s little wonder we writers drink so heavily writing about all of this turmoil day after day. That’s why we like our jobs here at Nanalyze. It’s not that we think technology…
The number of agtech startups continues to grow. That means new and better tools for the ag industry to produce more and better crops. Last month Forbes Magazine announced its list of the top 25 agtech startups at its annual Agtech Summit in Salinas. The startups’ specialties range from crop tracking and shelf life extension…
SALINAS, Calif. — At the Forbes AgTech Summit, the company released its list of top 25 most innovative AgTech Startups. While the June 28-29 summit explored topics including drought solutions, the rise of organics, automated technology in agriculture and other topics, the media company simultaneously released its list of most innovative AgTech startups. The full…
An experimental farm showcasing Israeli agriculture technology is in the planning stages outside Wagga Wagga. And no, for those not in the know, that’s not in Africa, nor in India, whose Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, is this week in Israel, among other things to discuss agriculture cooperation. It’s in Australia. “That a country that is…
