Precision agriculture is relative to each crop and production system, but there is little doubt that the technologies introduced today will lay the foundation for tomorrow’s best practices in all facets of crop production and harvest. To help understand...

The world of precision technology is as fast moving as it is complex. Companies that at first appeared viable for the long run have long nabbed their long-awaited venture capital exits, and the segment potentially will appear dramatically different...

Ah yes, time again for our annual click-collecting effort here on PrecisionAg.com, otherwise known as our (quasi) annual list of companies that we think will make news in precision farming circles in 2019. Our 2018 entry in the series...

Welcome to the PrecisionAg Institute Whitepaper library! Here you will find free whitepapers and case studies from the PrecisionAg Institute Partners to download to any device. These authoritative reports cover a wide range of topics in precision agriculture and showcase the...

Earlier this year, I compiled a list of the 25 best colleges for precision agriculture. It was quite the process. It required gathering invaluable input from industry experts and conducting extensive Internet research, as well as surveying the heads...

Choosing the right college is a process. It’s one that I’m just now embarking on with my teenage daughter. Long before she’ll find herself inundated with acceptance letters (or at least I hope so), she’ll need to visit campuses,...

My friends, as many of you told me repeatedly throughout the last 12 months, 2017 was an interesting year in Ag Tech. We witnessed needle-moving mergers and acquisitions (Deere-Blue River; AGCO-Precision Planting; FieldReveal, etc.), intriguing product launches (SmartFirmer, Sentera's Phoenix...

Ag professionals continue to reap the rewards of new smartphone apps. And perhaps no segment of farming is benefitting more from the increased productivity — and profitability — from using mobile technology than precision agriculture. From collecting data and...

There are dozens of easy-to-use mobile apps that are ideal for every day field scouting tasks. From record keeping and note taking, to real-time crop condition maps and in-field decision support, today’s apps help make scouting as fast and...

PRECISION TECHNOLOGY seems to evolve at the speed of an Olympic sprinter these days (Usain Bolt is still REALLY fast, in case anyone forgot). It seems like every other day we get word of a hot new startup out...