Data Management April 2, 2018 Disclaimer: I have never been a crop scout. My intolerance for insects insinuating themselves in places that are competing for the sweat rolling down the back and pant legs would not allow for that career path. But my respect for...
Data Management March 19, 2018 AgGateway has submitted its proposed irrigation data exchange standard to the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE), a major achievement in precision agriculture to help growers manage data from their irrigation management systems. The standard is the result...
Data Management March 15, 2018 Via Janzen Ag Law Blog: Senators Amy Klobuchar and John Thune have introduced Senate Bill 2487, the "Agricultural Data Act of 2018," writes Ag Law Attorney Todd Janzen in a recent blog post. According to Janzen, the bill seeks to...
Data Management March 15, 2018 Data is undeniably a valuable asset. Yet, in the ag ecosystem, who’s seeing the value from it? A recent article on PrecisionAg.com highlights how growers aren’t seeing value from data since, “The yield map book usually serves as a coaster...
Analytics March 13, 2018 AgReliant Genetics, the third largest seed company in North America, and The Climate Corp., a subsidiary of Monsanto Co., have announced a data connectivity agreement between Advantage Acre, AgReliant Genetics’ suite of digital technologies, and The Climate Corp.’s Climate FieldView digital...
Analytics March 9, 2018 Indulge me and let’s beat a dead horse together. We all know that data is a huge deal these days. Companies that specialize in it are working overtime and companies that have no business in data are playing the...
Data Management February 27, 2018 In today’s day and age, it is exciting to see so many developments in technology that can be applied to the farm scale. Every week we see new companies coming into the ag technology spectrum and with each a...
Analytics February 26, 2018 GiSC (Grower Information Services Cooperative), the agricultural industry's only grower-run data cooperative, and Main Street Data, an agricultural data analytics company, are joining forces with IBM to introduce a suite of data-driven solutions to help growers improve their yields,...
Analytics February 15, 2018 It’s fascinating to see how modern technology has helped us increase our agricultural productivity in areas not otherwise suited for our higher value crops. When viewing the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles and southwest Kansas in Google Earth (see below),...
Data Management February 1, 2018 According to McKinsey, the agricultural sector is the least digitized industry in the U.S., writes Tony Baer on ZDNet.com. Yet, agriculture already produces large volumes of data -- especially from IoT. There's hardly a lack of scenarios for digitizing...
Data Management February 1, 2018 Deep in the midst of December downtime, we reached out to three retailers well-versed in running a grower-facing precision ag department and asked them to share what's worked at their outlets and with their sales teams in driving grower...
Connectivity February 1, 2018 CNH Industrial and The Climate Corporation announced today a new partnership that will extend and develop a portfolio of data sharing capabilities to help farmers with real-time agronomic visualization and decision-making solutions. Case IH and New Holland Agriculture, the global...
Connectivity January 29, 2018 I am a firm believer that data, especially map-based data, must be experienced. Seeing your data as a map in addition to a report or spreadsheet will always be of value as a step on the data literacy path....
Data Management January 23, 2018 Blockchain technology has several uses in the agriculture industry: Documentation for certifications. One of the most aligned applications is providing documentation and authentication of records for crop or livestock certifications. For crop certifications, the use of a blockchain allows for...
Data Management January 23, 2018 Growers are very mindful of their data and the importance of owning the rights to it. Even still, many are willingly giving their data to corporations in order to improve their productivity, increase their yield, and make their farms...
Data Management January 17, 2018 My friends, as many of you told me repeatedly throughout the last 12 months, 2017 was an interesting year in Ag Tech. We witnessed needle-moving mergers and acquisitions (Deere-Blue River; AGCO-Precision Planting; FieldReveal, etc.), intriguing product launches (SmartFirmer, Sentera's Phoenix...
Data Management January 17, 2018 The digital revolution is changing the way agriculture is done. Rapid population growth, changes in market demands, depleting agricultural land, and significant changes in climate patterns, including much more frequent extreme events — all these factors are pushing agriculture out...
Data Management January 16, 2018 Probably most professionals who deal with business data have at least heard the term “blockchain” bantered about as potentially the “next big thing” for a wide range of industries, agriculture included. But what is it? One could imagine a Jerry...
Data Management January 16, 2018 For you sports junkies out there, if I could prove to you that I can correctly predict winners and losers with 80% accuracy, would you use my advice in Las Vegas? I don’t gamble, but according to this article...
Data Management January 15, 2018 AgGateway's Precision Agriculture and Grain & Feed councils have issued a call for participation for a proof-of-concept initiative in AgGateway's ongoing grain traceability project; the deadline is January 23 to express interest in participating. The Commodity Automation by Rail...
