Crop Pro Insurance today announced the close of an $8 million Series A round of financing co-led by top agriculture investors Finistere Ventures and Seed 2 Growth Ventures (S2G). Established insurance provider GuideOne Insurance also joined the round. Headquartered in the heart of Midwest farmlands...

Amy Winstead is the Chief Technology Officer for Agri-AFC in Decatur, AL, where she manages the precision ag services the company provides to its customers in a four-state area. Amy Winstead considers herself blessed to have...

SatShot President Lanny Faleide has been a fixture on the remote imagery scene for as long as about anyone still trying to make the technology work for agriculture. He was one of the first people we met back in...

Blue River’s See & Spray technology has vast potential to, in the words of VP of business development Ben Chostner, “make every plant count.” Blue River anticipates a 2018 launch for See & Spray in...

(EDITOR'S NOTE: This is Part II of Tim Norris' Yield Monitor Calibration checklist, Part I of which was published in print in our August 2017 issue of PrecisionAg® Professional, as well as online here.) In The Field Steps Vibration Calibration:...

Ag Info Tech in Fredericktown, OH With fall harvest a few weeks away for most of the country, ag service providers from every walk of life are getting ready for yield monitor calibration season. Ag Info...

Jill Scheidt, University of Missouri Generally speaking, any ag service provider’s most important job is to help grower-customers produce more with less. According to Jill Scheidt, a University of Missouri Extension agronomy specialist operating out of Barton...

It starts with Big Maps, Google Earth, and GPS on iPhones and Androids. But it’s the combination of easy access to, and use of, high quality imagery — combined with agronomy tools like Climate FieldView and SST — that...

Tim Mundorf, Field Representative, Midwest Labs, says that, for the most part, the Omaha, NE-based soil test lab doesn’t get real involved in how the client takes the samples. “We certainly stress the importance of a good sample that is...

These photos demonstrate the stark difference between (left) medium and very high resolution. Field imagery in agriculture has been around for decades. But as the industry stands in “Crop Season 2017,” agriculture still has a ways...

Camouflage photography, developed during World War II, opened the era of remotely sensed images and the possibility of seeing more than the visible light spectrum that the human eye can see. On either side of the visible light spectrum...

As you have seen throughout this report, aerial imagery has been a “thing” in agriculture for decades. Systems and delivery mechanisms have come, gone, and evolved. New satellite deployment for image capture has exploded in recent years, while the...

Look around a bit, and you will find lots of information and ideas about when and how to use imagery for row crop management on the Internet. Whole books have been written about this subject, and lots of papers...

Farmers Edge President And CEO Wade Barnes reflects on the process of building his company, shortly after receiving the Crop Adviser/Entrepreneur Award during the InfoAg Conference in July.

The company that introduced the first commercially-successful, on-the-go yield monitor 25 years ago is building on its mission of empowering growers to collect actionable data for decision making. Its total-farm line of InCommand displays will feature new efficiency gains...

This summer will likely go down in ag history as “The Summer of Dicamba.” But as far as mainstream media is concerned, 2017 is turning out to be the Summer of the #HotTake. Will we EVER have a passable health care...

Yes, you read that headline right. I said Precision Lag, as in I have this feeling we are in the waning phase of the excitement and craziness of this industry in this time frame. If you think this is...

Here at PrecisionAg® Professional we’re all about the numbers. And taking a look back at the numbers, it appears that many of you thoroughly enjoyed June's featured Listicle, the “Top 10 Most Intriguing Technologies in Agriculture,” making it the top viewed...

AMVAC Chemical Corp. has announced collaboration with the J. R. Simplot Co. to field test the proprietary SIMPAS prescriptive application equipment from AMVAC. SIMPAS stands for Smart Integrated Multi-product Prescriptive Application System. This technology enables Simplot Grower Solutions (SGS); a...

As I sit here and ponder just what it was that we all experienced last week, off the top of mind I'd say InfoAg 2017 seemed vastly different from the previous iteration — perhaps a bit subdued, or less...