Connectivity
March 14, 2019
Proagrica, the leading provider of integrated data connectivity solutions for the agricultural sector, is on a mission: to guide the industry towards 100% connectivity and embrace the changes and benefits brought by the new data revolution.
“The industry is changing,”...
Analytics
March 13, 2019
For six generations, Ben Riensche’s family has tended corn and soybeans outside Jesup, a town of 2,500 on the windswept plains of eastern Iowa, writes Andrew Marc Noel on Bloomberg.com. But today he’s harvesting a valuable new crop from...
Data Management
March 4, 2019
Data management continues to grow in agriculture, and the opportunities for learning about decisions made, individual fields, and management practices have made many advances in the last few years.
One of the growing fields of data management for decision making...
Data Management
February 22, 2019
Instagram models and pizza - strange bedfellows perhaps back in the Nineties - but in today’s anything-goes, Internet-driven society? Like milk and cookies, my friends….
Here’s another coupling to add to the strange bedfellows list: Domino’s Pizza and Artificial...
Data Management
February 15, 2019
John Deere precision agriculture technology and tools, such as JDLink in the John Deere Operations Center, can be helpful in the tracking, organization, and compiling of information needed for standard annual reporting.
The USDA reporting is...
Connectivity
February 5, 2019
Jeremy Leifker welcomes attendees to the 2019 Develop With Deere Conference Jan. 23, 2019, at the Chicago Sheraton Grand in downtown Chicago, IL. (Photo Courtesy - AgNewsWire/ZimmComm)
The wide, wacky world of machine and data interconnectivity...
Data Management
January 30, 2019
How far are we from a computer being able to decide what variety or hybrid should be planted in a field, how it is fertilized, and prescribe crop protection chemicals needed? The promise of artificial intelligence (AI) has been...
Analytics
December 18, 2018
"Life in the fast lane
Surely make you lose your mind
Life in the fast lane, yeah"
Last week in Omaha, NE, was this author's inaugural (hopefully not the last?) trip to Farmers Business Network's annual all-things-pro-farmer blowout, Farmer2Farmer, which this...
Data Management
December 17, 2018
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a technology that exhibits behavior that could be interpreted as human intelligence. Can we apply artificial intelligence in agriculture? Can a computer be better than man in making decisions related to other living organisms in...
Data Management
December 11, 2018
Raven Industries, Inc. announced today that it has signed an asset purchase agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of AgSync, Inc., manufacturer of a popular ag logistics software and headquartered in Wakarusa, IN, according to a December press...
Data Management
November 30, 2018
Jason Tatge, Farmobile CEO, shows us the latest Farmobile PUC for the 2018 growing season, at Commodity Classic 2017 in Decatur, IL.
Ah yes, it’s that time of year again.
That time of year when online publishers...
Data Management
November 29, 2018
CEOs from some of the largest tech companies in the world are highlighting the importance of data privacy and security. Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple claimed the personal data accumulated by some tech companies is being “weaponized against...
Data Management
November 6, 2018
“For the first time ever, farmers are seeing that our imagery is as good as walking in the field. Farmers get it because it’s so visual. It’s a wow moment. ‘You captured this from a plane? That’s pretty amazing,’”...
Connectivity
November 5, 2018
Friday morning’s big news in precision ag – the forming of a strategic partnership between Canadian ag tech agronomy provider Farmers Edge (Winnipeg, MB) and international equipment giant CNH Industrial (CNHi) – confirmed a long standing suspicion many in...
Connectivity
November 2, 2018
CNH Industrial and Farmers Edge have entered into a strategic digital agriculture agreement that will deliver a portfolio of connectivity and agronomic solutions to Case IH customers. Through this agreement, CNH Industrial will provide Case IH customers with access to FarmCommand, a unique...
Analytics
October 30, 2018
Harvest is always an exciting time of the year, to reap the workings of an entire growing season and begin evaluating decisions to make for the coming season and year. Knowing how trials, varieties/hybrids, and management practices impacted final...
Analytics
October 16, 2018
There are some commonly spoken narratives that are actually false, at least as stated in the exact words used, that erode trust in weather forecasting. For example, just recently a friend mentioned how “it seems clear, at least to...
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...
Analytics
September 25, 2018
Farmers Edge announced the launch of a new solution designed exclusively for agricultural professionals to enhance their relationships with customers and spike their business growth through the use of precision digital tools, according to a press release from the...
Data Management
September 18, 2018
As a provider of weather analysis and forecast services to the agricultural industry, one of the most common questions I get asked is, “How accurate are your precipitation estimates compared to a gauge?” Earlier this year, I wrote a...
