Connectivity
May 4, 2011
Aaron Phillips of Trimble discusses how the company's Connected Farm utilizes wireless technology to transfer important data, manage vehicle movement, and provide sub-inch RTK corrections.
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Data Management
April 27, 2011
CTIC will host its annual Conservation In Action Tour, August 8-9 in Northwest Ohio. This year's Tour will focus on agriculture's influence on the environmental and economic health of Maumee River and Bay, as well as Lake Erie. The...
Data Management
April 27, 2011
SST will once again hold its Vision Conference prior to the 2011 InfoAg Conference in Springfield, IL. The learning and networking event will be held on July 11 from 1:30 p.m - 5:30 p.m. at the Crowne Plaza Hotel.
"For...
Data Management
April 21, 2011
Onset Computer Corporation recently announced that its HOBO U30 Weather Stations can now feed live weather data to Weather Underground, which provides free online weather information to millions of web users.
Data Management
March 30, 2011
Beck's Hybrids and MyRainReport.com, powered by RainWave, have formed a partnership that makes Beck's Hybrids the exclusive provider of MyRainReport.com; providing services in Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and parts of Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, and Kentucky. Beck's will offer the service...
Data Management
March 24, 2011
Pending approval of the University Board of Trustees, Dr. Scott Shearer has been chosen to chair The Ohio State University's Department of Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering. His appointment would begin July 1.
Shearer would be returning to his alma...
Data Management
March 4, 2011
This year's Innovation in Action tour will be held on August 9 in Northwest Ohio, and will focus on agriculture influence on the environmental and economic health of Maumee River and Bay, as well as Lake Erie.
The Tour will...
Data Management
March 1, 2011
According to Scott Mueller, senior vice president, business development at CDMS, multi-tasking is coming to precision products in 2011. The trend today is to use multi-variant analysis in determining the correct hybrid, fertility and rate of each, says Mueller....
Data Management
March 1, 2011
Improving nitrogen efficiency is a prominent trend in agriculture, and Ag Leader is providing innovative technology to meet growing market demand. OptRx is a crop sensor that measures and records data necessary to determine the impact of nutrients, water,...
Data Management
February 17, 2011
Data are the foundation for decisionmaking in any enterprise but the complexity of their realization and their importance as a “currency” in the flow of information are overlooked by many practitioners. This is particularly true of precision agriculture, which...
Data Management
February 9, 2011
As part of its ongoing commitment to double yield output for major commodity crops by 2030, Monsanto has been working on the agronomic side of the equation that it estimates will account for 5% to 7% of the needed...
Data Management
February 2, 2011
Ag Leader Technology, Inc. recently announced the release of the North American Wheat algorithm for OptRx, a crop sensor used for mapping, data collection and real-time variable rate nitrogen application. OptRx crop sensors determine a vegetative index reference value...
Data Management
January 13, 2011
"Our goal is to be the leader in developing new technology that will help simplify the lives of producers," says Don Preusser, President of John Deere Insurance Company.
The new Automated Crop Reporting process benefits producers by maximizing their precision...
Data Management
December 16, 2010
In 2010, more than 20,000 growers across the country attended Answer Plot Knowledge Events, where they got up close and personal with the latest technologies, products and production practices at more than 150 locations.These local education sites combined field...
Data Management
September 30, 2010
John Deere Agri Services and Telvent DTN announce an agreement to develop communications interfaces for streaming Telvent DTN information into the AGRIS Commodity Management system. The interfaces will help agribusiness professionals using the AGRIS system to reduce manual data...
Data Management
September 23, 2010
Farm Works Information Management, a division of Trimble, announced three new products for growers and agribusinesses.
Farm Works Mobile streamlines data management in the field by bundling record keeping, scouting, soil sampling, and variable rate application into one solution. Field...
Data Management
September 10, 2010
Ask any person who works in the precision agriculture field about the industry's top technologies and they are likely to tell you the same thing, basically — these pieces of hardware/software and system approaches are designed to increase the...
Data Management
August 19, 2010
RapidEye recently announced that Santiago & Cintra Consultoria, its distributor in Brazil, will now have an expanded sales territory in South America which includes the countries of Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Venezuela.
"Santiago & Cintra Consutoria...
Data Management
July 22, 2010
It was truly an international experience at the conference this year, with more than 40 countries represented in Denver at the biennial International Conference on Precision Agriculture. Here are a few of the most interesting observations I made this...
Data Management
April 8, 2010
North Bend, NE-based CropMetrics is looking for professionally qualified crop consultants and agronomists to partner with to provide agronomy support services using its Virtual Agronomist program.
With the new Virtual Agronomist Base Management Program, CropMetrics "Precision Partners" receive all EM...
