Market Watch
April 27, 2015
Iteris, Inc., a leader in providing information solutions to the transportation and agriculture markets, has announced new water resource management capabilities within the ClearAg suite of crop protection decision support software.
ClearAg Irrigation Advisor includes tools for monitoring field soil...
Data Management
April 24, 2015
Wilbur-Ellis Company — the No. 4 ranked ag retailer on the 2014 CropLife Top 100 ranking of the largest U.S. retailers — has received FAA approval to operate OR-based HoneyComb Corporation's AgDrone System commercially, reports HoneyComb Corp.'s Ben Howard via...
Guidance
April 23, 2015
Topcon Positioning Group announces the launch of its completely reimagined website. The new layout is designed to provide a comprehensive and user-friendly experience for global visitors, and to address the needs of customers in the expanding markets of Topcon...
Farm to Fork
April 23, 2015
Trimble announced today that it has acquired the assets of HarvestMark, a provider of food traceability and quality inspection solutions, from YottaMark, Inc. of Redwood City, CA. The acquisition of HarvestMark further enhances Trimble’s position in Agriculture and Transportation...
Market Watch
April 22, 2015
Growers across the country can now take the guesswork out of improving their farm’s production, land value, farm stewardship and profitability, as Syngenta has expanded its AgriEdge Excelsior program nationwide this year. For more than a decade, AgriEdge Excelsior...
Data Management
April 21, 2015
Brent Schipper, a grower from Conrad, IA, looking at the TrueHarvest tool on an iPad.
Eavesdropping on a group of rival growers down at the local coffee shop. Aimlessly driving country back roads on a slow...
Guidance
April 21, 2015
Thousands of years ago, agriculture began as a highly site-specific activity, writes Jess Lowenberg-DeBoer in an essay that appears in the May/June 2015 issue of Foreign Affairs.
The first farmers were gardeners who nurtured individual plants, and they sought out...
Data Management
April 21, 2015
Registration is now open for AgGateway's Mid-Year Meeting, June 8-11 at Prairie Meadows in Altoona, IA, just outside of Des Moines.
The meeting provides valuable insights and networking for anyone seeking to expand eBusiness in agriculture - from seasoned AgGateway...
Guidance
April 17, 2015
Topcon Positioning Group announces the kickoff of the 2015 Topcon Technology Roadshow in Toronto, ON. The mobile solutions center will embark on its trek on April 22-23, and then continue all across North America stopping in more than 30...
Irrigation
April 16, 2015
OnFarm, developers of farm production management software, have included in their spring release a suite of features supporting water management decisions on the farm. This suite includes tools for describing field soils and their water holding capacity in up...
Data Management
April 16, 2015
Airware today unveiled its Aerial Information Platform (AIP), an operating system for commercial drones that combines hardware, software, and cloud services to enable enterprises to safely operate drones at scale, comply with regulatory and insurance requirements, and rapidly develop...
Market Watch
April 15, 2015
AgWorks President Greg Duhachek at the company's annual user conference in Davenport, IA.
AgWorks, a provider of unified agronomy management software for Agribusiness retailers, announced a new partnership today with CDMS, Inc. to provide crop protection...
Data Management
April 15, 2015
HarvestMaster’s new H2 High Capacity GrainGage is now shipping. Designed to collect data on large-plot, high-volume grain samples, the H2 GrainGage offers enhanced efficiency and data accuracy for agricultural field researchers.
Available for both single and split-plot combines, the H2...
Data Management
April 14, 2015
There are many flight-worthy unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on the market today for various civilian applications. Here are 10 models for 2015 that are marketed for precision agriculture....
Drones | UAVs
April 14, 2015
Early in their education, meteorology students learn about the atmospheric scales of motion. Atmospheric scales of motion refer to the relation between the life span of a weather system to its horizontal extent.
At the smallest or “microscale,” turbulent eddies...
Irrigation
April 13, 2015
Field runoff is a problem that everyone is concerned with - including precision irrigation outfits like CropMetrics - but I would venture to say that no one is more concerned about it than the producer who is paying to...
Data Management
April 10, 2015
Ranch Systems is now shipping the RX30 expansion unit worldwide. The RX30 is a “drop-in” expansion board that allows the Davis Vantage Pro series weather stations to connect directly to the Ranch Systems RS300 node, without the need for...
Data Management
April 9, 2015
With the upcoming release of MapShots Inc.'s Service Pack 0, AgStudio users who also subscribe to Raven Industries' Slingshot system will be able to automatically download data from Slingshot web accounts and Raven’s popular line of Field Computers. The...
Irrigation
April 9, 2015
AgSense announced its release of the “Field Commander Ultimate” precision irrigation package. The package combines the industry’s most installed controller, the Field Commander, with AgSense Crop Link telemetry units and are available through AgSense’s worldwide distribution and irrigation dealer...
Irrigation
April 8, 2015
As more regions of the country struggle with water conservation and off-site nutrient movement, growers are looking for ways to control inputs better. One clear place to start is controlling irrigation water more carefully. How much land could improvements...