NTABAZINDUNA, Zimbabwe, Feb 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Deep in rural western Zimbabwe, where tarred roads are nonexistent, Japhet Ngwenya used to spend every season worrying that the people who ...

Pairing expect to be the first in market with service to remote farms MCLEAN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--, operator of one of the world’s largest integrated satellite and terrestrial networks, and CNH ...

Nathan Faleide has spent about 20 years in agribusinesses, helping farmers use aerial and satellite imagery in precision farming. Now, he’s started “Boundri,” a business that prints those images on ...

The European GNSS Agency (GSA), the EU agency managing Europe’s satellite navigation systems, EGNOS and Galileo, today announced the return of the Farming by Satellite Prize, which will promote the ...

Investors are making a $1 million bet on a Raleigh startup’s quest to make farming even more high-tech through satellite imagery. Investors are making a $1 million bet on a Raleigh startup’s quest to ...

A satellite that's scheduled to launch later this year will conduct plant-growth experiments in both lunar and Martian gravity, as a way to help prepare for future human settlement of these worlds.

AGRONOMY textbooks traditionally reserve their final chapter for glowing predictions about the high-tech future of agriculture--a future long on gadgets and short on hard work and skinned knuckles.

Precision agriculture — which promises to reduce inputs of water, fertilizers and pesticides by matching them to variations in soil conditions, thereby reducing environmental impacts, while increasing ...

NTABAZINDUNA, Zimbabwe (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Deep in rural western Zimbabwe, where tarred roads are nonexistent, Japhet Ngwenya used to spend every season worrying that the people who advise ...

When roads are bad and extension agents few, technology can help get farmers the information they need to deal with climate shifts and other threats, backers say NTABAZINDUNA, Zimbabwe, Feb 10 ...