Digital Farming
August 10, 2017
If you’re interested in an intense, week-long immersion in the use of high-tech products and practices in New Zealand agriculture, then this event could be just the opportunity you are looking for.
Space Exploration Asia Sdn Bhd (Malaysia) has partnered...
Data Management
August 9, 2017
DuPont announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire San Francisco-based Granular, Inc., a provider of software and analytics tools that help farms improve efficiency, profitability and sustainability. Granular also operates AcreValue.com, the leading digital marketplace for...
Market Watch
August 9, 2017
Convening a day prior to this summer’s Farm Progress Show at the I Hotel in Champaign, IL (about an hour’s drive up I-72 from Decatur, IL), our PrecisionAg® Innovation Series speaking agenda has rounded out pretty nicely as we’re...
Market Watch
August 8, 2017
Higher yields and greater returns are the ultimate goals for crop producers. To help corn growers better understand the role equipment plays in optimized crop production systems, AGCO launches the Crop Tour 2017 on-farm research and demonstration program. The...
Market Watch
August 8, 2017
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...
Market Watch
August 7, 2017
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...
Imagery
August 6, 2017
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...
Market Watch
August 5, 2017
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...
Market Watch
August 4, 2017
(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:...
Market Watch
August 4, 2017
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...
Market Watch
August 4, 2017
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...
Imagery
August 3, 2017
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...
Market Watch
August 3, 2017
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...
Imagery
August 2, 2017
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...
Imagery
August 2, 2017
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...
Imagery
August 2, 2017
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...
Imagery
August 2, 2017
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...
Excellence Awards
August 2, 2017
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.
Industry News
August 1, 2017
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...
Market Watch
August 1, 2017
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...