Data Management
October 16, 2017
Why spend the time and resources to extract the NRCS ‘Soil SURvey GeOgraphic’ (SSURGO) soil polygons only to display the vector lines as a reference? There is a massive amount of soil information within the SSURGO database, however most...
Digital Farming
October 2, 2017
Last week I attended the fourth South American Congress of Precision Agriculture and Precision Machinery (IV APSUL America 2017). The event was held in Não-Me-Toque, a small city in Rio Grande do Sul, which is Brazil's southernmost state. The...
Digital Farming
September 20, 2017
Bayer said it was unable to propose the sale of any digital farming assets to allay EU concerns about its planned $66 billion takeover of Monsanto, according to an article on Reuters.com.
The European Commission last month started an in-depth...
Data Management
September 14, 2017
An innovative online tool developed by a Purdue University engineering professor will allow farmers to process data collected from their fields without requiring them to share it with third-party companies.
“The Purdue Agricultural Data Engine (PADE) empowers farmers to derive...
Data Management
September 12, 2017
The use of precision agriculture-based decision making to determine fertilizer rates and hybrid types and planting rates is becoming more common, according to an article on the PennState Extension website.
However, with the increased use of precision agriculture and the...
Data Management
September 8, 2017
Today’s farm equipment today comes with more bells, whistles and blinking lights than Captain Nemo’s submarine, and most of those special features go unused, writes Raney Rapp on FarmTalkNewspaper.com.
The question is, what are those features and the data they...
Data Management
September 6, 2017
Editor's note: Ryan Rakestraw from Monsanto Growth Ventures has teamed up with Amrit Acharya from Mckinsey to write the following on AI in agriculture on Forbes.com.
When Norman Borlaug, the father of the green revolution, won the Nobel Prize in...
Digital Farming
August 30, 2017
Across the globe farmers are turning to digital technology and one place rich in new ideas is Zambia where young farmers in the Kazungula, Mungwi and Choma areas are putting in place radical new approaches, writes Tim Sandle on...
Connectivity
August 24, 2017
BASF and Proagrica have signed a development and operation agreement to bring one of the first farm management system interfaces to market. Growers will benefit as they will be able to connect BASF’s digital offer Maglis with different digital...
Data Management
August 17, 2017
Beck's today announced the release of several new tools available in their precision farming service, FARMserver, which enhances farmers' ability to utilize variable rate technology. For more than three years, Beck's precision farming team has been researching, developing, and...
Data Management
August 15, 2017
Agronomic professionals and technicians dealing with precision farming must understand the soils within the field before writing effective prescriptions. A field provided with the same fertility, same amount of water, and same seed will still have production variability due...
Data Management
August 10, 2017
You would have to live under a rock to not have heard about farmers’ issues with dicamba this growing season. Arkansas banned the pesticide, Missouri temporarily banned and then changed the label, and complaints are skyrocketing in Indiana and...
Digital Farming
August 10, 2017
If you’re interested in an intense, week-long immersion in the use of high-tech products and practices in New Zealand agriculture, then this event could be just the opportunity you are looking for.
Space Exploration Asia Sdn Bhd (Malaysia) has partnered...
Data Management
August 9, 2017
DuPont announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire San Francisco-based Granular, Inc., a provider of software and analytics tools that help farms improve efficiency, profitability and sustainability. Granular also operates AcreValue.com, the leading digital marketplace for...
Connectivity
July 28, 2017
As I sit here and ponder just what it was that we all experienced last week, off the top of mind I'd say InfoAg 2017 seemed vastly different from the previous iteration — perhaps a bit subdued, or less...
Data Management
July 26, 2017
John Deere and Granular announced today a product development and co-marketing agreement that gives John Deere customers more tools to measure and improve their financial performance.
Under the terms of the agreement, the two companies will work to further integrate...
Connectivity
July 26, 2017
Trimble and CNH Industrial are enabling wireless connectivity between Trimble Ag Software and Case IH Advanced Farming Systems Connect and New Holland Precision Land Management Connect telematics platforms in North America.
Trimble and CNH Industrial, a...
Data Management
July 25, 2017
Digital farming company Prospera has announced a $15 million Series B funding round. Qualcomm Ventures, the investment arm of Qualcomm Incorporated, has led the round, which was joined by Cisco Investments, ICV, and existing investor Bessemer Venture Partners. It...
Data Management
July 17, 2017
EFC Systems is pleased to announce an expanded integration between its FieldAlytics product and Agronomic Technology Corp’s Adapt-N nitrogen recommendations and monitoring system. With this functionality now in mass release, FieldAlytics users have the ability to leverage field data already...
Data Management
July 17, 2017
Benchmarking has become a buzzword in precision agriculture recently and before we get too excited with all of the profound insight it’s going to bestow upon us, let’s take a step back and really look at where this benchmarking...
