Data Management
May 21, 2013
AgGateway and the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) are co-sponsoring the launch of a cross-industry collaboration project that will help growers better manage water and energy use by integrating weather, soil moisture, soil type, crop and other relevant data...
Data Management
May 21, 2013
Growers using a smartphone, tablet or laptop will now have an optimized experience when visiting agleader.com, thanks to the launch of Ag Leader's new responsive website.
"Responsive web design is an approach that businesses are implementing to provide users with...
Data Management
May 20, 2013
The deadline for farmers and ranchers to sign-up to participate in the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) this year is May 31, just ten days from now. USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) will accept slightly more than 12 million...
Data Management
May 15, 2013
According to reports from Monsanto, farmers in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Minnesota have begun in-field trialing of the first offering from the company's Integrated Farming Systems research platform — FieldScripts.
Analytics
May 8, 2013
The second presenter on tap for InfoAg 2013’s “Social Media For Business” session, Jay Harrison, considers the now-annual conference the perfect setting for his unique mix of social media strategy and text analytics expertise.
“The conference demonstrates the applications of...
Data Management
May 2, 2013
We are told that providing the food, feed, fiber and fuel needs for 9 billion people (and at an increased standard of living) will require a doubling of production in the next two to three decades. That means everywhere...
Data Management
May 2, 2013
Early precision adopter John Reifsteck says that while technology in agriculture has come a long way, there is still a lot of work to do to make it streamlined and accessible to the masses.
Data Management
May 2, 2013
In my brief foray into Healthcare Information Technology (IT), it took only a couple of weeks to discover that the challenges they faced were harshly reminiscent of what we’re facing in Ag Information Technology.
Yet from a business perspective, the...
Data Management
April 30, 2013
Why do agricultual retailers invest in and use precision agricultural technologies? Is it used to distinguish a business from the competition, to generate additional revenue or because customers expect it?
Precision Ag Special Reports’ sister magazine CropLife®, in cooperation with...
Data Management
April 29, 2013
Bruce Erickson provides some "top line news" thoughts on the upcoming precision retail adoption survey.
Data Management
April 25, 2013
USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) announced today additional funding for the second year of the National Water Quality Initiative.
NRCS will make available nearly $35 million in financial assistance to farmers and ranchers in 164 priority watersheds this year...
Data Management
April 25, 2013
As the ability to collect data expands exponentially, precision ag users will need to start relying on computers to help crunch all of the numbers.
Data Management
April 18, 2013
To supplement the release earlier this year of its FieldView Plus planting system, Precision Planting users can now receive automatic planter performance text alerts.
The cloud-based FieldView™ Plus system allows growers to sync planting data across multiple pieces of field...
Data Management
April 17, 2013
An agronomy firm whose smartphone application projects corn yields on a daily basis will launch a new function on the app to increase accuracy and reduce data entry.
The new function from Advanced Ag Solutions LLC, models anticipated irrigation to...
Data Management
April 4, 2013
As you may have seen in the Spring edition of PrecisionAg Special Reports, SST Software announced the release of a new product harnessing all the power of SST products to be available through retailers and agronomy companies for mobile...
Data Management
April 2, 2013
Submit your abstract by April 30 to receive the early submission fee for the ASA, CSSA, and SSSA International Annual Meetings, Nov. 3-6, 2013 in Tampa, FL. By presenting your research, you will be taking part in a multi-disciplinary meeting that...
Data Management
March 26, 2013
Modern hybrids bring many benefits to growers, with improved environmental stress tolerance and the ability to yield significantly better than their predecessors under the same conditions.
However, until recent years little has been done in the way of research to...
Data Management
March 20, 2013
At Bloomington, IL-based GROWMARK, a number of organizational changes were announced in the agronomy division, effective March 16, 2013. A company release outlined the following appointments.
Ron Milby is named Executive Director, Agronomy Marketing, responsible for developing and executing comprehensive...
Data Management
March 1, 2013
DuPont said today that while new digital technology is allowing farmers to gather massive amounts of data, the real value comes when data drives insights to help them improve their operations’ profitability.
“In today’s complex, data-intense farming operations, growers need...
Data Management
February 25, 2013
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is asking stakeholders to sign a petition urging lawmakers and the Executive branch to work together to avoid funding cuts to federally-funded research and development projects across a wide variety...
