When cotton seed cost $350 per ton, the rule was to plant heavy and thin the stand later on if you needed to. But when seed hit $500 per bag, you sort of had to find a new rule...

The AutoProbe was recently named one of the top 10 new products which will be exhibited at the 2008 World Ag Expo, Feb. 12 - 14, in Tulare, Calif.   Jeff Burton, CEO of AgRobotics, LLC, www.agrobotics.com, headquartered in Little Rock,...

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...

SeedCommand now tracks and logs average seed population while monitoring seed spacing, and provides this information in real time to operators in the form of a color bar graph and population display. These capabilities allow growers using SeedCommand to...

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...

John Pointon works at OmniSTAR, the subscription GPS service provider, and he likes to send me interesting articles on GPS "stuff." This week he sent me a release on something called the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and...

On-the-go sensor equipment, first built by Greenseeker and now also manufactured by CropCircle, is attached to field equipment or carried as a hand-held unit and provides information about the relative vigor of a plant. Unlike aerial imagery, it provides...

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...

Taking pictures of crop fields from high above, be it satellite or via aircraft, in order to gain insight into crop health and vitality and improve decision making has been around a long time. And for as long as...

On the world stage, technology has a reputation for moving forward at break-neck speed without ever backing up. Think of how fast businesses moved from fax machines to e-mail to handheld computers/phones between 1987 and 2002. When it comes to...

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...