The new unit combines the most popular features of both the Outback S2and the Outback 360 with Crescent GPS receiver technology, and also adds a color touch screen and valuable job management capabilities.   Outback S3 features an 8.4-inch, high-resolution touch...

Manufactured by Trimble and co-marketed by Ag Leader Technology, the EZ-Guide 250 system allows vehicle operators to steer tractors, sprayers, fertilizer applicators, harvesters and other farm vehicles with consistent pass-to-pass accuracy to help save fuel, increase efficiency and reduce...

Q. What improvements have been made recently in the signal technology? A. One of the things that they used to talk about in the early days was how long it would take a high accuracy satellite signal to converge. It...

My partner on the sales side of PrecisionAg, Dan Bellanger, is a true technology enthusiast. Virtually every time we travel together, he has a new toy to show. Several years ago when iPods were still a glint in Steve...

GPS Steering Fully Matures. When GPS steering first debuted in 1999, it was largely reserved for folks who could generate enough profit to pay the hefty entry fee. Today, there's something for just about every level of use, and...

BoomPilot records the GPS location and the location of the applied areas in a field. When a section of a sprayer boom overlaps one of the applied areas, BoomPilot automatically switches that boom section off. When the boom re-enters...

The Raven Cruizer offers a unique combination of easy operation and installation, with options previously reserved for more expensive equipment. A built-in 10Hz DGPS receiver provides accurate sub-meter guidance for operations such as tillage, spraying, and harvesting to help...

One of the key benefits that's been driving adoption of GPS steering among growers has been the ability to perform farming operations more efficiently and with fewer people. Rob Lindores, director of marketing for Trimble's Agriculture Division, shared a...

Traditional radar guns can be affected by ground surface variations, potentially compromising the output of the unit. The ACCU-SPEED system receives signals from global positioning satellites resulting in more accurate, more reliable ground speed detection. When put...

The new manual system with GPS receiver features rugged, ergonomically styled housing with simple controls and a bright full-color display screen. It also features the first detachable lightbar with high-visibility LED indicators that allows the user to place the...

TeeJet Technologies sells and supports GPS receivers utilizing the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS), the United States' free DGPS correction system. WAAS exists primarily to improve the accuracy of GPS for aviation applications, but it is also a convenient...

In October, sister publication CropLife magazine completed its sixth E-Survey, a study of agricultural retailers and their use of computers, technology, the Internet, and precision agriculture. What was found was a significant uptick in the adoption and use of...

Eclipse was built to allow OEM customers to integrate it into a wide variety of precision-intensive applications including GPS machine control for ag equipment. Eclipse receiver technology is currently available as an OEM module and evaluation kit. Hemisphere GPS will...

When our staff was polling precision agriculture insiders to find out what trends belonged in our Tech Top 5 listing, almost no one was surprised that three of hottest areas involved technologies that were barely out of diapers, metaphorically...

The GMS-2 GIS provides four key functions into its new handheld device, including the following: - Dual-constellation tracking - An integrated digital camera linking photos to feature locations; - An electronic compass for bearing and...

The X20 Boom Leveler uses four ultrasonic sensors to maintain a user-set distance between the operating spray boom and the ground or crop canopy. This allows an operator to extend spraying into the night or early morning without having...

S-Lite is a low-cost, portable, entry-level GPS guidance solution for non-precision spraying, spreading, and broad-acre tillage and seeding. Offering many of the same features as its popular Outback S series products, Outback S-Lite includes Straight Guidance, Contour Guidance, and Return...

The new Weather Station provides continuous weather monitoring to the X20, enabling the operator to view weather data while performing any agricultural application, from tilling to harvesting. With integrated mapping, weather and coverage maps can be recorded, printed, stored...

David Wildy, owner of Wildy Farms in Manila, Arkansas, is truly one of the pioneers of precision agriculture in the Cotton Belt. A decade ago, he acquired his very first cotton yield monitor, admitting that "we did not know...

Global position is arguably the most important tool that precision agriculture practitioners use in their operations. Let's face it - what good would any of the precision technology be without the foundation of georeferencing that global positioning provides? And yet,...