T-L Irrigation Co., the exclusive manufacturer of hydrostatically powered pivot irrigation systems, is pleased to announce the availability of its GPS Navigation Linear System. The GPS Navigation Linear System is the ultimate in design simplicity, claims the company. Featuring Real...

Precision agriculture powered by GPS technology — at first a novelty — has now become the norm, driven in part by economic necessity. Putting fertilizer where it is most needed, in the precise amounts required, improves both input utilization...

Sol Chip, a provider of Internet of Things (IoT) systems and energy harvesting solutions, today announced the introduction of its Sol Chip Comm autonomous, wireless, solar tag for enabling precision agriculture and smart irrigation. The Sol Chip Comm (SCC) device...

Our inaugural PrecisionAg Vision Conference, held last week in Phoenix, AZ, is officially in the books. Having convened just over 200 stakeholders that hail from every aspect of the food production value chain over three days to discuss and debate...

Made for growers, by growers, CropMetrics creates easy-to-use software that can be integrated with current precision ag software. The latest product, VRI 2.0 is a cloud-based software designed to adapt any grower and field to Variable Rate Irrigation –...

FIGARO, an EU-funded international project focused on developing the new precision agriculture Decision Support System (DSS) to improve irrigation management for increasing water productivity, will unveil the world's most advanced precision irrigation at a partners' meeting which will take...

As technology changes the way farmers grow and harvest crops, Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton, OR, is training students to keep pace with the evolving industry, reports George Plaven, East Oregonian. The next generation of producers will have to know...

Hortau, a provider of precision irrigation management systems and services for agriculture since 2002, is expanding its full line of products and services in the High Plains and Southwest regions of the U.S. Earlier this month, Hortau announced its expansion...

If farmers and agronomists were better able to use data from their irrigation management systems - including information on weather, soil moisture and crop types - they could make more informed decisions about when, where and how much water...

Trimble introduced today the Irrigate-IQ uniform corner, a unique solution that allows farmers to apply a consistent amount of water on the area covered by a center-pivot corner arm. The solution prevents over- or under-watering through a uniform application,...

As California¹s historic drought persists, dairy farmers in the nation¹s top dairy producing state are increasingly looking to subsurface drip irrigation (SDI) technology as a solution for maximizing the water productivity and yield potential of their forage crops. While...

Choosing the right irrigation solution is essential to maximizing farm revenue, but it can be difficult to find reliable ag irrigation information. Now, growers can get on-demand irrigation information at the new irrigation.education website. Accessible 24/7 from a computer, this...

In today’s market, it is more important than ever for growers to make the most of cropland to get the highest possible yield. For many growers, this means irrigating land that may be difficult to reach with traditional center...

Today, AgSense and Valley Irrigation announce the release of the CommanderVP, a new remote monitoring and control solution for Valley control panels. This is the first AgSense telemetry product to completely integrate into Valley digital control panels. Adding CommanderVP to...

The damn cattle just didn’t want to cooperate. After a day of pretty much every detail (during an event with a lot of moving parts, no less) going off without a hitch, a planned demo of Phil and Nate Maring’s...

As smartphones become more integral in farm management and increasingly prevalent among growers, it’s essential for agriculture companies to provide useful mobile tools. To that end, Valley Irrigation has launched a new mobile website. The new site, m.valleyirrigation.com or simply...

Trimble announced today that it has launched a new fully scalable version of its Irrigate-IQ precision irrigation solution that also works with a wider range of irrigation equipment. Growers can now affordably purchase a basic system to remotely monitor...

OnFarm, developers of farm production management software, have included in their spring release a suite of features supporting water management decisions on the farm. This suite includes tools for describing field soils and their water holding capacity in up...

Field runoff is a problem that everyone is concerned with - including precision irrigation outfits like CropMetrics - but I would venture to say that no one is more concerned about it than the producer who is paying to...

AgSense announced its release of the “Field Commander Ultimate” precision irrigation package. The package combines the industry’s most installed controller, the Field Commander, with AgSense Crop Link telemetry units and are available through AgSense’s worldwide distribution and irrigation dealer...