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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...