Dave Nerpel, Wilbur-Ellis Dave Nerpel of Wilbur-Ellis Co., Warden, WA, has been named the 2011 Crop Adviser/Entrepreneur Award winner for Precision Ag Excellence. Nerpel translates industry innovations into services for Wilbur-Ellis. With his understanding of services, web-based...

Scott Beck, Beck's Superior Hybrids Scott Beck, vice president of Beck’s Superior Hybrids, Atlanta, IN, has been named the 2011 Educator/Researcher Award winner for Precision Ag Excellence. Beck manages and directs the Practical Farm Research facilities that...

Nerpel translates industry innovations into services for the Wilbur-Ellis Co. With his understanding of services, Web-based recordkeeping and telematics, Nerpel became the foundation of its AgVerdict program. Nerpel has a vision for the future which is coming into play as...

As a Plant Scientist, Wollenhaupt only applies what is needed and when, while determining amounts based upon proven science. He has worked with farmers and custom applicators from the earliest concepts of statistical-based soil sampling to development of hardware...

Forgey was a founding member of the Upper Midwest Space Consortium (UMAC) at the University of North Dakota. UMAC provides remote sensing (RS) imagery and collaborates with farmers to develop RS agriculture applications. He has been using RS and...

Beck manages and directs the Practical Farm Research facilities that promote agronomic and precision ag technologies and developments. A key goal for Beck and his group is to demonstrate new practices, including precision ag technologies, which allow growers to...

CropLife Media Group Editor Paul Schrimpf presented the 2011 PrecisionAg Awards of Excellence to Dan Forgey (Farmer Award), Dave Nerpel (Crop Adviser/Entrepreneur Award), Scott Beck (Agriculture Educator/Researcher Award), and Dr. Nyle Wollenhaupt (Legacy Award). View photos from the awards...

The PrecisionAg Institute has announced the recipients of the 2011 PrecisionAg Awards of Excellence. This is the fifth annual presentation of these awards, designed to celebrate the people and programs that have helped agriculture realize the full benefits of...

Ted Macy, MapShots Ted Macy and his wife, Nancy, grew up on farm operations in Indiana. It was as a freshman at Purdue University that Macy's vision of ag data management was born. His programming experiences...

Arthur Lange, Trimble In 1974, Arthur Lange joined the team at Hewlett Packard, working in what would become Silicon Valley, until the 1980s. It was at this point that Lange decided to take a job from...

Allen Myers, Ag Leader Raised on an Illinois farm, Allen Myers always had a love for the mechanical aspect of farming. This led him to study agricultural engineering at the University of Illinois, where he earned...

Joe Russo, ZedX, Inc. Dr. Joe Russo is a co-founder and president of ZedX, Inc., an information technology company specializing in decision-support algorithms and data visualization tools for the agricultural and environmental industries. Since 1999, Dr. Russo...

Scott Shearer, University of Kentucky For the past 22 years, Scott A Shearer has worked at the University of Kentucky as an educator, a researcher, a mentor and an innovator. He is a member of the...

Norm Teegardin, Farm Works Norm Teegardin started in the fields and grew his software from what he learned there. He has always been dedicated to making growers' jobs easier and making their work more efficient through...

Terry Griffin The 2010 Educator/Researcher Award recipient for Precision Ag Excellence is Dr. Terry Griffin. Griffin serves in Extension, research, and teaching roles in farm management and spatial technologies as a professor of economics at University of...

Ken Dalenberg has played a leadership role for many years in evaluating and adopting improved crop management systems. He has worked closely with universities, industry, commodity organizations, and others, selflessly sharing his farm for testing and demonstrating new technologies. Dalenberg...

Harold Reetz has been a champion of technology and precision agriculture throughout his four decade-long career. Starting out in Extension in the Purdue University system in the 1970s, he assumed numerous leadership roles over the years and worked tirelessly...

Dr. Terry Griffin serves in Extension, research, and teaching roles in farm management and spatial technologies as a professor of economics at University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture. Griffin has been studying the farm-level and societal benefits of precision...

OptiGro is a full-service crop consulting service provided by full services retailer Jimmy Sanders, Inc., of Cleveland, MS. OptiGro provides agricultural advice, information, and precision agriculture resources to farmer-customers designed to provide maximum return on investment. OptiGro includes trained...

Jess Lowenberg-DeBoer is currently associate dean, director of International Programs, and professor of Agricultural Economics in the College of Agriculture at Purdue University, but his prior work in precision agriculture economics played an invaluable role in the growth of...