Market Watch
April 5, 2017
In the 2016/2017 harvest, the Mato Grossense Institute of Economics (IMEA) estimated that the largest soybean state in Brazil will reach the historic mark of 49 bushels per acre. While it has been a good year for rain in...
Drones | UAVs
April 5, 2017
Sentera today launched updates to its Incident Light Sensor (ILS) for use on NDVI-Upgraded DJI Phantom 4, Phantom 3, and Inspire drones.
For several years, research customers have used the Sentera ILS to measure the color spectrum of incident light...
Drones | UAVs
April 5, 2017
Spring, summer and early fall are for many the happiest time of the year. It's the growing season and farmers and those that assist them are working hard nationwide, writes the National Association of Aerial Applicators (NAAA) in a...
Farm to Fork
April 5, 2017
Advisory investment group The Mixing Bowl teamed up with Forbes for its New York-based event this year to discuss technology’s role in changing food and farming at scale and consumer food preferences, writes Louisa Burwood-Taylor on AgFunderNews.com.
The audience represented...
Connectivity
April 4, 2017
Pest infestations cost farmers at least some measure of profit and productivity in virtually every crop. Predictive technology for key pests — discovering an infestation and being able to take action before productivity is lost — has been the...
Drones | UAVs
April 4, 2017
DroneDeploy is now connected with the John Deere Operations Center.
Just in time for the critical spring planting season, the integration allows users to synchronize their DroneDeploy and MyJohnDeere accounts to view and analyze drone-generated field maps in combination with...
Market Watch
April 4, 2017
Who is the most trusted ag advisor of them all? It's a question I think we’ve all heard before, mind you without the Disney flare added to it. That question raises plenty of different viewpoints and positions when it comes...
Market Watch
March 31, 2017
Mobile apps are helping ag retailers and consultants take their scouting services to the next level.
Scouting is one of the most critical services that ag retailers and consultants can offer their grower-customers. The need for...
Data Management
March 31, 2017
At the end of every NFL game, win or lose, one thing is for certain: the coach is going to analyze the game film.
What did we do well? What (or who) performed poorly? The game film is their data...
Connectivity
March 30, 2017
A pest trap for orchards by manufacturer Semios.
In-season scouting is the mother’s milk of any full-service agronomy program. It’s the component of crop production that validates the experience of individuals who know and understand the...
Connectivity
March 29, 2017
Registration is now open for AgGateway’s Mid-Year Meeting, June 12-15 at Prairie Meadows in Altoona, IA, just outside of Des Moines. The meeting provides valuable insights and networking for anyone seeking to expand eConnectivity in agriculture – from seasoned...
Market Watch
March 29, 2017
To avoid the draconian locks that John Deere puts on the tractors they buy, farmers throughout America's heartland have started hacking their equipment with firmware that's cracked in Eastern Europe and traded on invite-only, paid online forums, writes Jason...
Data Management
March 28, 2017
Now more than ever is it important for FMIS groups, seed companies, and herbicide manufacturers to use high-resolution weather data in their platform so that their growers can prevent the growing dicamba drift issue.
Dicamba drift...
Connectivity
March 27, 2017
As of early 2017, Plantium had about 600 Atlas-enabled devices (monitors and smart antennas) placed with customers and in operation around Argentina.
Plantium in Santa Fe, Argentina, is a full-service provider of precision agricultural guidance systems...
Market Watch
March 27, 2017
Michigan is more famous for its car industry, great lake, and big 10 universities than it is for agriculture. But about 180 miles west of Detroit is West Olive, a township located in Ottawa County founded by Dutch immigrants....
Data Management
March 25, 2017
Davie Stephens is involved with every aspect of his farming operation, including how data is collected, stored, and shared.
Davie Stephens, who lives in Hickman County, KY, farms more than 5,000 acres in Western Kentucky and...
Global Ag Tech Alliance – North America
March 24, 2017
With support from the partner organizations of the PrecisionAg Institute, Millennium Research conducted a survey of 215 farmers from around the country to find out who they trusted with their agronomic data, and who helped them move their farm...
Data Management
March 24, 2017
See it, speak it, record it. No pens, no paper, no lost information. In a nutshell that’s what Bruce Rasa is trying to deliver to precision agriculture professionals who rely on collecting valid scouting data.
Called AgVoice, this system provides...
Data Management
March 23, 2017
When it comes to creating and building value with farmer-customers, service providers today have new allies to support their efforts. Growers Ag Data Cooperative (formerly known as GiSC) and the Ag Data Coalition (ADC), two separate entities in form...
Market Watch
March 23, 2017
360 Yield Center's 360 Y-Drop tool, attached to spray booms, drizzles nitrogen at the base of the stalk.
When Illinois Grower Jeremy Wilson hit the farm conference circuit these past two years, one of his talks...
