Market Watch
August 27, 2009
The more "irregular" your fields are and the "finer" your application and planting resolution, the bigger the benefit. That's the essence of research findings out of Auburn University in Alabama to gauge the cost savings possible using automatic control...
Data Management
August 20, 2009
RapidEye, based in Germany, has been working with potential partners around the world to offer its five-satellite constellation dedicated to unique remote imagery products. The company provided the following success story, working with a French precision agriculture consulting company.
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Guidance
August 11, 2009
Topcon Precision Agriculture (TPA) has released a new electric steering product, the AES-25.
"The AES-25 is an accurate steering system that does not intrude into the operator's working area or alter the steering wheel position," says Rhett Schildroth, TPA engineering...
Market Watch
August 6, 2009
A John Deere AMS specialist based in northwest Indiana and a progressive local farmer tweaked an air clutch planter system and came up with a way to add swath control to anhydrous ammonia toolbars.
The technology, which makes swath control...
Guidance
August 3, 2009
Kansas State University offers a spreadsheet tool that helps to evaluate the benefits of a global positioning system. To download the spreadsheet, visit the KSU site by clicking on the link and selecting GPS Guidance under "Decision-Making Tools."...
In-Field Technologies
July 13, 2009
AgRobotics, LLC and GVM Inc. have formed a strategic alliance and marketing partnership for a 'next generation' GPS/GIS telematics offering which allows agricultural retailers to schedule, monitor, control, and track the AgRobotics™ soil sampling services using the on-the-go AutoProbe™...
Guidance
July 13, 2009
Farmers who want to add auto-steer functionality to their older tractors have a new retrofit option with Leica Geosystems' release of the QuickSteer motor. The QuickSteer motor can be added to a wide range of agricultural vehicles that do...
Guidance
July 10, 2009
Research out of Tel Aviv University has found that cell phone towers can help predict the next big flood.
Though New Orleans residents were told to evacuate days before the arrival of Hurricane Katrina, no one could have predicted the...
Market Watch
July 10, 2009
Onset Computer recently introduced a new bracket that makes it fast and convenient to mount the company's light sensors for calculating Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) values. NDVI is the standard measure of the density of green vegetation in...
Guidance
July 1, 2009
A feature on the 15 most significant innovations in precision agriculture seemingly would be best served through rigorous, scientific information gathering and iron-clad statistical analysis. This feature contains none of that.
• Innovations:
Instead, we asked the ultimate variable — PEOPLE...
Market Watch
June 25, 2009
Cotton growers in the MidSouth and Southeast have used GreenSeeker sensors to make variable-rate PGR applications. GreenSeeker sensors measure reflected light at wavelengths that correspond to crop vigor. An on-board computer calculates the PGR requirement based on the sensor...
Market Watch
June 25, 2009
Listed below are some warning signs that skipping an application could result in yield losses this year:
• You've been using half to a third of the recommended rate, applied as a band. This practice relies on the increased plant...
Farm to Fork
June 4, 2009
The recent annual meeting of the Washington State Horticultural Association (WSHA) had sustainability as its theme and highlighted the transition we are undergoing as a new generation assumes leadership. That generation includes some amazing young people, more women, and...
Guidance
June 4, 2009
Article excerpted from the June 2009 edition of CropLife magazine.
Automated steering systems have become standard tools for many in agriculture. And drivers are benefiting from continued improvements on both hydraulic and mechanical units, reports Ryan Molitor, marketing supervisor, Raven...
Market Watch
June 4, 2009
Growers know that certain orchards are more productive than others, and that certain blocks within those orchards likewise differ. But researchers are learning that there are tremendous differences from tree to tree — as much as 40% — and...
Guidance
May 28, 2009
The satellite began broadcasting the new signal on April 10, 2009, and Topcon engineers reported successfully tracking the signal a few days later. The US Air Force is presently testing the L5 signal from one GPS satellite. Topcon had...
Data Management
May 28, 2009
RapidEye is the only geospatial solutions provider to own and operate its own constellation of Earth observation satellites. The imaging campaigns were concentrated in Europe, the U.S., Brazil and China. Nearly 14 million square miles (or more than 36...
Guidance
May 21, 2009
AutoFarm recently announced the availability of embedded steering control (ESC) for Envizio Pro, allowing it to work with the AutoFarm OnTrac2 GPS Assisted Steering System to provide robust steering of a broad range of equipment including tractors, sprayers, spreaders...
Guidance
May 14, 2009
Solar storms are eruptions of energy and matter that escape from the sun and may head toward Earth, where even a weak storm can damage satellites and power grids, disrupting communications, the electric power supply and GPS. A single...
Guidance
May 7, 2009
Tim Norris was one of the early pioneers in the construction of RTK tower networks. Through his consulting company, Agronomic Information Technologies in Gambier, OH, he launched the C.O.R.N. Network. (Central Ohio RTK Network).
Over the past two years, Norris...
