Guidance
April 23, 2015
Topcon Positioning Group announces the launch of its completely reimagined website. The new layout is designed to provide a comprehensive and user-friendly experience for global visitors, and to address the needs of customers in the expanding markets of Topcon...
Guidance
April 21, 2015
Thousands of years ago, agriculture began as a highly site-specific activity, writes Jess Lowenberg-DeBoer in an essay that appears in the May/June 2015 issue of Foreign Affairs.
The first farmers were gardeners who nurtured individual plants, and they sought out...
Guidance
April 17, 2015
Topcon Positioning Group announces the kickoff of the 2015 Topcon Technology Roadshow in Toronto, ON. The mobile solutions center will embark on its trek on April 22-23, and then continue all across North America stopping in more than 30...
Irrigation
April 16, 2015
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...
Data Management
April 16, 2015
Airware today unveiled its Aerial Information Platform (AIP), an operating system for commercial drones that combines hardware, software, and cloud services to enable enterprises to safely operate drones at scale, comply with regulatory and insurance requirements, and rapidly develop...
Data Management
April 14, 2015
There are many flight-worthy unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on the market today for various civilian applications. Here are 10 models for 2015 that are marketed for precision agriculture....
Drones | UAVs
April 14, 2015
Early in their education, meteorology students learn about the atmospheric scales of motion. Atmospheric scales of motion refer to the relation between the life span of a weather system to its horizontal extent.
At the smallest or “microscale,” turbulent eddies...
Irrigation
April 13, 2015
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...
Data Management
April 10, 2015
Ranch Systems is now shipping the RX30 expansion unit worldwide. The RX30 is a “drop-in” expansion board that allows the Davis Vantage Pro series weather stations to connect directly to the Ranch Systems RS300 node, without the need for...
Irrigation
April 9, 2015
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...
Irrigation
April 8, 2015
As more regions of the country struggle with water conservation and off-site nutrient movement, growers are looking for ways to control inputs better. One clear place to start is controlling irrigation water more carefully. How much land could improvements...
Data Management
April 8, 2015
Swiss professional drone manufacturer senseFly has optimized its eBee Ag drone solution, adding powerful new software that makes it easy for agricultural professionals to capture high-resolution photos of their fields, analyze crop health and create accurate prescriptions to load...
Data Management
April 7, 2015
For the first time, scientists at Oregon State University are measuring atmospheric temperatures with fiber optic thermometers suspended from unmanned aircraft—combining two emerging technologies to probe a poorly understood swath of Earth’s atmosphere.
With funding from the National Science Foundation,...
Guidance
April 1, 2015
Three exceptional vegetable growers share their success stories using precision agriculture technology to improve their operations.
Data Management
April 1, 2015
Empire Unmanned setting up for a flight. (L-R) Jeff Lonnecker, Logan Blair, Ken McCormick, Brandon Moore, Joe Swart, and Brad Ward. Photo Credit: Robert Blair/Empire Unmanned.
After being granted their first Certificate of Authorization (COA) from...
Irrigation
March 31, 2015
In a major step forward for growers in the water-stressed Great Plains, Netafim USA has joined efforts with Teeter Irrigation, Inc. to provide Western Kansas and Eastern Colorado growers with access to the groundbreaking Precision Mobile Drip Irrigation (PMDI)...
Drones | UAVs
March 25, 2015
The parameters require flights to remain at or below 200 feet above ground level during daylight visual flight rule conditions, at least two nautical miles from airports and five miles from airports with an operational control tower, and the
Data Management
March 23, 2015
Reports indicate that FAA intends to streamline the commercial approval process by no longer requiring companies with exemptions to obtain a new certificate of authority for each new use of a drone.
Guidance
March 17, 2015
The DynaJet system controls the pressure and droplet size across a wide range of speeds, allowing the operator to choose the optimum speed that conditions allow while maintaining consistent droplet size.
Guidance
March 17, 2015
AgJunction has agreed to acquire Novariant through a merger transaction pursuant to which AgJunction will issue common shares to Novariant shareholders.
