Market Watch
October 24, 2018
When farmers think about precision agriculture most will automatically think about the geospatially based sub-field agronomic management side of "precision agriculture". With increasingly compressed margins due to higher input costs, low commodity prices, and challenging weather conditions, linking sound...
Market Watch
October 8, 2018
Spray drift. News articles about damage caused by spray drift seem to pop up regularly, almost as daily reminders, during the summer months. Whether it be dicamba-related issues in those states of the U.S. where dicamba-tolerant soybeans are grown,...
Data Management
September 27, 2018
With a range of extreme-weather events currently playing out across the globe, from floods on the east coast of the U.S. to an extreme drought in most of Australia, growers as well as other industry stakeholders are increasingly trying...
Data Management
September 14, 2018
Harvest is progressing across most parts of the U.S. and those growers who aren’t already harvesting are gearing up to start soon. In a few months, the crops will have been harvested, the fields will be bare, and the...
Market Watch
August 27, 2018
While Eastern Australia is in a crippling drought that has prevented much of New South Wales (NSW) and Queensland to plant winter crops, Australia’s largest farm show Agquip took place again last week in Gunnedah, NSW. The 46th annual...
Data Management
August 15, 2018
As the days in the Northern Hemisphere slowly get shorter, they are getting longer in the Southern Hemisphere and everywhere growers are starting to prepare their equipment in anticipation of the upcoming harvest. In the U.S., 26% of corn...
Market Watch
April 30, 2018
Juan Sebastián Restrepo grows hydrangeas on Blue Mountain, a 5-acre farm on a hillside in Colombia. While its production process is fully manual, the farm would benefit greatly by adding IOT-based soil and plant sensors.
As...
Market Watch
February 2, 2018
As we're almost through the first month of 2018, the dryland cotton in Australia has battled some pretty difficult conditions: extremely hot and dry conditions in combination with herbicide spray-drift in most areas. Irrigated cotton is powering along well,...
Data Management
December 21, 2017
As the outside temperature regularly reads over 40 degrees Celsius, Australian cotton growers have again reached one of the busiest times of the season: irrigation time! With some fields that are irrigated by overhead equipment as an exception, flood...
Market Watch
November 2, 2017
The Kokoda Track — a 60-mile path in Papua New Guinea — offered plenty of opportunities to learn about local agriculture.
I recently spent two weeks in the Central Highlands area of Papua New Guinea (PNG)...
Market Watch
October 4, 2017
As the days are getting longer and the temperature is starting to rise, Australian broadacre growers are gearing up for another summer crop season. The Australian winter has been extremely dry in most areas, with a lot of growers...
Market Watch
August 28, 2017
The latest ag technology draws more 100,000 attendees to the annual AgQuip field days in Gunnedah, NSW, Australia.
The annual AgQuip field days took place in Gunnedah, NSW on August 22-24. Being the largest agricultural field...
Data Management
July 13, 2017
It is mid-July, which, for the Australian cotton industry, means that picking is still going on for some growers. A different group of growers, however, is getting ready to start planting cotton again in three weeks time, and the...
Market Watch
May 8, 2017
This year's summer crop season has been a tough one for most growers in Australia. Prolonged periods of high temperatures and a distinct lack of in-crop rain in most areas have caused the sky-high expectations at the beginning of...
Market Watch
March 6, 2017
Most broadacre growers in Australia already use some forms of precision ag on their land, but the opportunity to expand this is still infinite despite a unique set of challenges in the country.
Editor's note: Reinder...