Intelligent Agriculture

Polish Agricultural Social Insurance Fund adopts IBM Cloud to advance farming safety

IBM has announced that The Agricultural Social Insurance Fund (KRUS), a social insurance provider for farmers in Poland, is adopting IBM Cloud to implement a hybrid cloud strategy that will help modernise its new e-learning platform. Moving its educational programmes about the rules of safe work in farming to the...

Scottish Government ARE improves its IT infrastructure with Pure Storage

Managing the subsidies that keep Scotland's rural economy thriving The Agriculture and Rural Economy (ARE) Directorate, headquartered in Edinburgh, Scotland, operates within the Scottish Government and plays a key role in Scotland’s rural economy. As well as interpreting EU regulations and assessing the validity of farmers’ subsidy claims, it is...

Farmplan releases entry-level version of Gatekeeper for crop recording

Farmplan, part of Proagrica, is paving the way towards a more innovative agricultural industry using IT. The company has announced the release of Gatekeeper Express, a new entry-level, cloud-based crop recording solution. Gatekeeper Express builds on the success of the market-leading Gatekeeper farm management software program. “Smaller or less complex...

UK agriculture must harness potential of managing data for success

Data is going to impact agriculture more than anything else in the 21st Century, said Graeme McCracken, Managing Director of Proagrica, during a recent interview. Farmers will use their data to apply the right products, at the right rates and at the right time; distributors will use data to properly...