1. Abundant Robotics company (California) prepares a prototype of a robotic apples collector with vacuum power supply. In the nearest future it is expected that robot will be offered to big enterprises and private agro companies.
2. The new hyper local system of weather forecasting from Arable Point (New Jersey) synthesizes land observations and leads out the predictions on a point on the map. The Arable Mark sensor collects data from more than 40 geopoints (irrigation management, meteorological analytics, determination of diseases of plants, finding insect wreckers and also forecasting and prevention of frosts).
3. John Deere purchased a 305 million startup dollars in July, 2017 — it is the first joint product of John Deere with Blue River Technology (California). Benefits: See&Spray technology for pesticides application with variable speed, a robot for collecting lettuce leaves, analytics of processed images and a computer system for collection and identification of images.
4. An innovative Smart Spray technology from Bosch Agriculture (Germany) can mix and apply various active ingredients at the request of the user. The device makes the choice, according to the weeds type. Includes an intellectual irrigation system for olive gardens, sensors, IoT and big data.
5. In 2016 Descartes Labs (New Mexico) used technology of processing images to plan final maize productivity in the USA with 99% accuracy . And also the company signed the contract with Darpa for monitoring crops conditions in the Middle East recently — to prevent the shortage of food. The main benefit — use of proprietary algorithms for the analysis of earth pictures and forecasting.
6. Precision Planting startup (Illinois) was purchased by machinery giant AGCO in July.Launching of three new projects is announced during winter conference this year. It is expected that it will be a screen 20х20, an automated system for control of clamping force of SeederForce and mSet selector.
7. Semios (Canada) created a revolutionary, environmentally friendly method for wreckers population management using RF modules based on SNAP and locks. Benefits: network services IoT, fight against diseases and frost, frosts warning, irrigation management and analysis.
