Data Management
April 24, 2017
Farmers Edge announced it has partnered with Allied Cooperative, a provider of agronomy, feed, grain, and equipment services to growers across 700,000 acres in central and western Wisconsin.
With the all-in-one Farmers Edge Precision Solutions platform, Allied’s more than 2,200...
Data Management
April 20, 2017
Following Farm Market iD’s February 2017 introduction of FieldVision, its mobile data-delivery platform, the company announced today its newest online product release: FarmFocus with Grower Profile.
Steve Rao, CEO, said, “We are very excited about the new FarmFocus with Grower...
Data Management
April 19, 2017
Rob Berglund, global director of sales, energy and agriculture at The Weather Company, discusses IBM’s Watson and applications for advanced analytics that will fundamentally change the way American farmers approach crop production. Berglund discusses how cognitive computing enables quick diagnosis and proactive decision making.
https://youtu.be/AGBhojsJbNk...
Data Management
April 19, 2017
Ernie Chappell of EFC Systems discusses five factors impacting the ag retail industry, the competitive advantages of enhanced customer engagement and business risk management solutions.
https://youtu.be/sGeFCYL_TNQ...
Data Management
April 17, 2017
Farmer's Business Network (FBN) released today its "The Voice of the Farmer", a special research report on the state of American agriculture and the challenges facing farmers, according to a post over on sister site CropLife.com.
The Voice of the...
Data Management
April 11, 2017
For those that may not know, Farmobile CEO Jason Tatge is a rather interesting character.
I first met Jason at a John Deere API conference in Kansas City, back in 2014, when Johnny Manziel was still a young buck backup...
Data Management
March 31, 2017
At the end of every NFL game, win or lose, one thing is for certain: the coach is going to analyze the game film.
What did we do well? What (or who) performed poorly? The game film is their data...
Data Management
March 28, 2017
Now more than ever is it important for FMIS groups, seed companies, and herbicide manufacturers to use high-resolution weather data in their platform so that their growers can prevent the growing dicamba drift issue.
Dicamba drift...
Data Management
March 25, 2017
Davie Stephens is involved with every aspect of his farming operation, including how data is collected, stored, and shared.
Davie Stephens, who lives in Hickman County, KY, farms more than 5,000 acres in Western Kentucky and...
Data Management
March 24, 2017
See it, speak it, record it. No pens, no paper, no lost information. In a nutshell that’s what Bruce Rasa is trying to deliver to precision agriculture professionals who rely on collecting valid scouting data.
Called AgVoice, this system provides...
Data Management
March 23, 2017
When it comes to creating and building value with farmer-customers, service providers today have new allies to support their efforts. Growers Ag Data Cooperative (formerly known as GiSC) and the Ag Data Coalition (ADC), two separate entities in form...
Data Management
March 21, 2017
Farmobile announced today that Guy Carpenter, a global risk and reinsurance specialist, will purchase enhanced data sets to help optimize risk assessment and potentially improve the underwriting capabilities of Guy Carpenter’s clients. Initially, Guy Carpenter will purchase Electronic Field...
Data Management
March 15, 2017
As precision ag consultants, we spend a lot of time working with clients to implement best management practices to acquire the most accurate data possible, and ensure proper machine and implement function. Probably one of the simplest ways we...
Data Management
March 7, 2017
By far, the most popular question I am asked at any agricultural conference is about the weather and how it pertains to the upcoming growing season. Due to the popularity of that question, the ag industry has been inundated...
Connectivity
March 7, 2017
One of the toughest challenges ag retailers and agronomists have faced in using precision ag technologies is that different software and hardware systems haven't been able to "talk" to each other, hampering the ability to help producers manage valuable...
Data Management
March 7, 2017
The age of big data means big decisions for farmers as they decide who to trust with their information. An industry-wide effort to bring transparency to ag technology contracts is gaining momentum with the launch of a new website:...
Data Management
March 3, 2017
FarmLogs has announced the FarmLogs Research Network, the first nationwide large-scale, on-farm research network of its kind. Dedicated to organizing and conducting unbiased research and independent analysis, the collaborative program, open to row crop farmers across the country, will...
Data Management
March 2, 2017
A cooperative of growers and an agricultural data nonprofit have agreed to combine their technology platforms and create a vital resource for data-driven agriculture — a neutral, secure and private data storage repository controlled by growers. The combined platforms...
Data Management
March 2, 2017
New Holland has secured agreements to enable wireless data transfer capabilities between its PLM Connect precision land management system and service providers, including Decisive Farming, Encirca services, Onsite, and MapShots, Inc.
If they so choose, users of PLM Connect will...
Data Management
February 17, 2017
We are entering a very exciting time in agriculture. With so many great software platforms and data collection tools we are on the cusp of unlocking some really deep, profound information and management techniques like we’ve only dreamed of...
