Data Management
December 5, 2012
PERSPECTIVE I recently returned from the Agricultural Retailers Association Annual Conference in San Diego where, in addition to the usual networking, I got to host a modest roundtable of ag retailers to talk about the issues of the day....
Data Management
December 5, 2012
HarvestMaster, a division of Juniper Systems, announces Mirus harvest data collection software as the latest addition to its research agriculture solutions offering. Mirus is an all-in-one software designed to collect and view harvest data in real time. The Mirus...
Data Management
November 29, 2012
To help give producers easier access to important farm and field information through their mobile device, John Deere introduces John Deere Mobile Farm Manager. The application, which can be downloaded free from the Apple Store, is compatible with iPad...
Data Management
November 29, 2012
The Dakota Precision Ag Center located within Lake Region State College in Devils Lake, ND has a couple position openings at this time. An Assistant Director, an Agronomy Instructor and an IT person and an Administrative Assistant.
The application deadline...
Data Management
November 14, 2012
AgGateway is pleased to announce that the winner of this year’s Ron Storms Memorial Award is Andrew Jeremiah, B2B IT Lead Analyst at Monsanto. The award recognizes distinguished individual efforts in the promotion of electronic standards and protocols in...
Data Management
November 14, 2012
Trimble recently announced the addition of several new features to further enhance its Connected Farm solution. Connected Farm is an integrated operations management solution that provides information exchange across the entire farm. New features include additional viewing capabilities between...
Data Management
November 6, 2012
A new cloud-based online service designed to bridge the gap between popular farm management software and reporting requirements for crop insurance, USDA and other government entities has been introduced by Independent Data Management, LLC. The service, MyAgData, simplifies the...
Data Management
November 6, 2012
Thomas McCann of Calgary, Canada, has been named regional sales manager for Topcon Precision Agriculture (TPA) in Canada. The announcement was made by Marty Cook, North America sales manager.
For 12 years, McCann, with a degree in agriculture from the...
Data Management
November 1, 2012
Ten years ago, we first met Tim Norris as an agronomist and precision agriculture enthusiast working for a central Ohio cooperative. He had already successfully built precision programs at two Ohio cooperatives, and in 2003 led the development of...
Data Management
October 30, 2012
AgGateway facilitates the development and implementation of agriculture industry data and terminology standards across virtually every input and transaction category. During the organization’s annual meeting this month in Albuquerque, the group will discuss precision agriculture and the industry standards...
Data Management
October 25, 2012
The Dakota Precision Ag Center (DPAC) has been awarded two grants totaling $3.28 million for the development of training programs in precision agriculture. DPAC will develop the programs to fill in-demand jobs requiring skill level in precision ag technologies...
Data Management
October 25, 2012
In May, ARA invited members to nominate technologies and/or presenters to be featured during the Technology Breakout Session during the ARA Annual Conference & Expo. The 11 nominees were then presented to ARA membership for voting. Voting concluded on...
Data Management
October 5, 2012
AgGateway’s Precision Ag Council has launched a new project that will improve the data exchange processes that drive the use of precision agriculture field equipment for such major operations as seeding, tillage, spraying, fertilizing and harvesting. The Standardized Precision...
Data Management
September 27, 2012
AgGateway, the non-profit consortium of agri-businesses working to expand electronic business within the agriculture industry, recently launched a new Grain Council in order to identify, develop and implement standards and guidelines to bring eBusiness efficiencies to grain, oilseed and...
Data Management
September 17, 2012
No matter what way you look at it, precision agriculture continues to play an ever more important role in the world today. Right now, precision ag technologies almost run the gambit of alphabet letters, from automatic steering to yield...
Data Management
September 6, 2012
Solum, Inc. has received state soil laboratory certification for both Iowa and Minnesota for its new facility in Ames, IA.
State-level laboratory certification is an important component of soil testing quality assurance for U.S. agriculture. To be granted certification, participating...
Data Management
August 30, 2012
Trimble has introduced the WM-Topo survey system, a portable topographic data collection solution for water management which includes a Trimble Nomad handheld computer and a pole-mounted Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver.The announcement was made at the Farm Progress...
Data Management
August 9, 2012
Below is the second part of a feature from the July 2012 PrecisionAg Buyers’ Guide, in which ag technology experts were asked to weigh in on the state of precision technology. Here we present the second four of eight...
Data Management
July 26, 2012
CropLife America (CLA) had opened up the submission process for its second annual Information Technology Innovation Award. The award, held with support from AgGateway, recognizes companies and organizations in the crop protection industry that embrace technological advancement in modern...
Data Management
June 14, 2012
Rainfall data collected by a network of radars operated by the National Weather Service will be integrated into an application that helps farmers forecast corn yields throughout the growing process.
The Optimizer 2.0 application, developed by Advanced Ag Solutions LLC,...
