Guidance
May 30, 2013
Topcon Precision Agriculture has awarded a System 350 to Illinois farmer Mike Bumpus.
Guidance
May 28, 2013
InfoAg 2013 will be held July 16-18 in Springfield, Illinois at the Crowne Plaza Hotel. InfoAg continues to be the premier precision agriculture event for producers, consultants, and the crop production industry. Mark your calendar and make plans to...
Guidance
May 28, 2013
Monsanto's FieldScripts pilot offering is getting a lot of attention this season, and putting a spotlight on the potential benefits of variable rate seeding.
Guidance
May 27, 2013
On May 15, a new GPS satellite was successfully deployed to help bolster the serviceable but aging constellation.
Market Watch
May 22, 2013
One of InfoAg 2013’s featured speakers, Patrick Willis, contractor, National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), will present on two USDA web portals that ag retailers and growers can use for free.
“The purpose of my talk is to publicize two USDA...
Data Management
May 21, 2013
AgGateway and the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) are co-sponsoring the launch of a cross-industry collaboration project that will help growers better manage water and energy use by integrating weather, soil moisture, soil type, crop and other relevant data...
Guidance
May 21, 2013
Michael Stone has been named North America sales manager for Topcon Precision Agriculture (TPA). Stone will report to Michael Bourke, director of sales.
Stone has been with Topcon since it acquired KEE Technologies in 2006, serving in various positions in...
Data Management
May 21, 2013
Growers using a smartphone, tablet or laptop will now have an optimized experience when visiting agleader.com, thanks to the launch of Ag Leader's new responsive website.
"Responsive web design is an approach that businesses are implementing to provide users with...
Data Management
May 20, 2013
The deadline for farmers and ranchers to sign-up to participate in the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) this year is May 31, just ten days from now. USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) will accept slightly more than 12 million...
Data Management
May 15, 2013
According to reports from Monsanto, farmers in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Minnesota have begun in-field trialing of the first offering from the company's Integrated Farming Systems research platform — FieldScripts.
Drones | UAVs
May 13, 2013
Precision Hawk uses company re-branding as an opportunity to launch new model of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) systems platform.
Imagery
May 13, 2013
RapidEye's 2.9 million square kilometer North American Ag Imaging campaign kicks off this week.
Analytics
May 8, 2013
The second presenter on tap for InfoAg 2013’s “Social Media For Business” session, Jay Harrison, considers the now-annual conference the perfect setting for his unique mix of social media strategy and text analytics expertise.
“The conference demonstrates the applications of...
Data Management
May 2, 2013
We are told that providing the food, feed, fiber and fuel needs for 9 billion people (and at an increased standard of living) will require a doubling of production in the next two to three decades. That means everywhere...
Data Management
May 2, 2013
Early precision adopter John Reifsteck says that while technology in agriculture has come a long way, there is still a lot of work to do to make it streamlined and accessible to the masses.
Data Management
May 2, 2013
In my brief foray into Healthcare Information Technology (IT), it took only a couple of weeks to discover that the challenges they faced were harshly reminiscent of what we’re facing in Ag Information Technology.
Yet from a business perspective, the...
Guidance
April 30, 2013
Auburn University-Extension specialist John Fulton discusses some of the factors driving the prevalence of variable-rate fertilizer application in the southeastern U.S.
Data Management
April 30, 2013
Why do agricultual retailers invest in and use precision agricultural technologies? Is it used to distinguish a business from the competition, to generate additional revenue or because customers expect it?
Precision Ag Special Reports’ sister magazine CropLife®, in cooperation with...
Data Management
April 29, 2013
Bruce Erickson provides some "top line news" thoughts on the upcoming precision retail adoption survey.
Guidance
April 26, 2013
Raven Industries has announced a new Slingshot API implementation with ZedX, Inc., a leader in agricultural information technology solutions. With this implementation, the user's Slingshot data is now transmitted wirelessly from the field and is fully integrated into the...
