K. Elliott Nowels

It was the low corner of a good-sized field. Not especially steep, but certainly subject to erosion, and Lon Bohn liked what he was seeing. He took a few steps into the field and stuck his toe into the...

Three growers will share their precision agriculture success stories in a presentation, "PrecisionAg: Know More; Grow More," March 3 at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville, TN, during the Commodity Classic.

Representing the PrecisionAg Institute, I offered a 30,000-foot view of precision tools that was part primer, part advanced. As the name suggests, GAIN is about providing a forum for investors, inventors and innovators to connect on future possibilities. Some...

We've long held that profitability from optimizing inputs was the key reason we're seeing more precision ag tools being adopted, but Dr. Tracy Blackmer, of the On-Farm Network and Iowa Soybean Association says that he's seeing an up-tick in...

Recent swings of the stock market are shaking up the attitudes of many Americans toward our financial institutions. Many who made significant increases in their wealth through time now find it painful to see the numbers on their statements...

Show me the money. That was the challenge many crop producers issued to providers of precision agriculture technology in the 1990s. Most farmers weren't about to be sucked in by new bells and whistles they felt didn't hold any real...