Guidance
May 23, 2008
Well, the good news is that former Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin takes GLONASS seriously. So much so that its slow implementation may have cost one of his deputy prime ministers the top job in Russia, according to a...
Data Management
May 22, 2008
After John Deere's exit from the aerial imagery business and the shuttering of its OptiGro program, many in agriculture were left to wonder how remote imagery would continue to progress in the agricultural market. Behind the scenes, new parties...
Guidance
May 15, 2008
Last week I referenced a study claiming automatic steering is the most rapidly adopted technology in the history of agriculture. Given all the benefits and the current payback potential for saving chemical, fertilizer, fuel, and seed, I had to...
Guidance
May 15, 2008
"The improvements seen in lightbar products are generally in features and application," says Tom Causey, Topcon Ag and OEM advertising manager. "The PCS-100 brings core features with the benefit of simple operation, rugged design, and upgrades to the industry...
Guidance
May 9, 2008
The mojoRTK auto-steer system's capacity to store waylines makes repeatability easier for equipment operators. Wayline storage eliminates the need for users to continually re-set their first AB wayline when working in multiple fields.
"The wayline storage feature allows the user...
Guidance
May 9, 2008
Earlier this week, I got an email from my friends at AgriMarketing magazine about some research conducted by Caledonia Solutions. The headline reads, "GPS Steering The Fastest Technology Adoption in History of Agriculture." Hopefully, this is not a stunning...
Guidance
April 11, 2008
The mojoRTK auto-steer system allows farmers to customize a guidance solution by buying a basic system and adding only the features they need. "We are proud to welcome Riesterer & Schnell to our team of premium resellers,"...
Guidance
April 2, 2008
Satellite signal availability and accuracy options have increased significantly. And over the course of the last seven years, the availability and accessibility of real-time kinematic (RTK) correction has moved rapidly from the new technology on the block to an...
Guidance
March 27, 2008
We're about done collecting data from our 13th annual Precision Agriculture Adoption Survey, conducted this time each year by sister publication CropLife magazine. After 12 years of running the same basic survey with minor tweaks, this year we made...
Guidance
February 21, 2008
DirectCommand now interfaces to the Raven Sidekick chemical injection pump for complete control over chemical injection applications. The InSight display and CAN module will replace the Sidekick Console, directly connecting to the injection pump. Automated prime and calibration routines,...
Guidance
February 21, 2008
The cable will be available direct from www.mojortk.com and from Leica ag resellers in March 2008. Leica expects the availability of a link into AutoTrac to boost the number of farm vehicles that can be driven with its new...
Guidance
February 14, 2008
Google bills the Trackstick as "the perfect tool for individuals, law enforcement and government agencies looking for a way to track anything that moves. The Super Trackstick records its own location, time, date, speed, heading, altitude and temperature at...
Guidance
February 14, 2008
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...
Guidance
January 31, 2008
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...
Guidance
January 31, 2008
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...
Market Watch
January 24, 2008
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...
Guidance
January 17, 2008
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...
In-Field Technologies
January 3, 2008
From Japan comes a possible solution for the all this heavy lifting — the wearable robot.
The concept comes courtesy of Shigeki Toyama and colleagues from the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. The aptly dubbed "farming robot suit" is...
Guidance
January 3, 2008
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...
Guidance
December 20, 2007
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...
