“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,’”...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Years ago if we would have been told computers, data, and technology would be scattered around every farm there may have been a push back. Today, as we look at adoption of technology, some paradigms continue to vary in...

Former Monsanto President (now Bayer CropScience Chief Operating Office) Brett Begemann’s opening salvo during his first appearance at a Farm Progress Show (FPS) donning the Bayer Baby Blue summed up the tone and tenor of this year’s FPS rather...

The Climate Corporation, a subsidiary of Bayer, has announced the advancement of a new predictive seed selection and placement technology to pre-commercial testing. This fall, approximately 50 seed dealers will be testing Seed Advisor, a data science-driven tool that...

No matter a grower’s skill level, there are three key areas in helping them get the most value from the John Deere Operations Center. Today’s farming operation looks different than it did 20, 10, even just...

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...

Agile Networks, a leading provider of telecommunications solutions, and Microsoft Corp. has announced a new agreement to bring broadband internet access to rural areas in Ohio, reaching 110,000 currently unserved people and greatly expanding access in underserved rural areas. According...

Rather than breaking things down into smaller, bite-sized pieces that are easily digested, we’ve learned to over-indulge in data, quickly leading us to become bloated with un-actionable results. Big data is one of the most buzzed-about...

  InfoAg 2018 - Union Station, St. Louis, MO. InfoAg, precision farming’s annual mid-summer blowout, is about a week in the rearview as I type this, a hazy Midwestern summer morning underway here in Ohio. Seven days later,...

The world of technology-based solutions has been increasingly flooded with buzzwords like “analytics”, “big data”, and “Internet of Things”. In the past few years, the availability of cost-effective, large-scale cloud computing and open-source scientific programming libraries has led to...

Jason Tatge, Farmobile CEO, shows us the latest Farmobile PUC for the 2018 growing season, at Commodity Classic 2017 in Decatur, IL. Busy times these days out in Leawood, KS, for ag data startup Farmobile, as...

We live in an exciting time in agriculture. Not only is technology advancing rapidly, but the understanding and comprehension of technology and data is becoming easier to decode and decipher. By 2050, the population of Earth will amass 9.7...