Market Watch
August 4, 2011
New mobile technology such as iPads have emerged as useful tools in agriculture applications, and at the recent InfoAg Conference a company called PrecisionEarth launched an application for the iPad that collects and stores soil sampling data. Also called...
Excellence Awards
July 28, 2011
Dr. Nyle Wollenhaupt, AGCO
Dr. Nyle Wollenhaupt of AGCO has been named the 2011 Legacy Award Winner for Precision Ag Excellence.
As a Plant Scientist, Nyle has always led first with the scientific approach to variable rate...
Excellence Awards
July 28, 2011
Dan Forgey, Gettysburg, SD
Dan Forgery has been named winner of the 2011 Farmer Award for Precision Ag Excellence.
Forgey is the agronomy manager at Cronin Farms, an 8,500 acre crop and cow-calf operation located in central...
Excellence Awards
July 28, 2011
Dave Nerpel, Wilbur-Ellis
Dave Nerpel of Wilbur-Ellis Co., Warden, WA, has been named the 2011 Crop Adviser/Entrepreneur Award winner for Precision Ag Excellence.
Nerpel translates industry innovations into services for Wilbur-Ellis. With his understanding of services, web-based...
Excellence Awards
July 28, 2011
Scott Beck, Beck's Superior Hybrids
Scott Beck, vice president of Beck’s Superior Hybrids, Atlanta, IN, has been named the 2011 Educator/Researcher Award winner for Precision Ag Excellence.
Beck manages and directs the Practical Farm Research facilities that...
Excellence Awards
July 28, 2011
Nerpel translates industry innovations into services for the Wilbur-Ellis Co. With his understanding of services, Web-based recordkeeping and telematics, Nerpel became the foundation of its AgVerdict program.
Nerpel has a vision for the future which is coming into play as...
Excellence Awards
July 28, 2011
As a Plant Scientist, Wollenhaupt only applies what is needed and when, while determining amounts based upon proven science. He has worked with farmers and custom applicators from the earliest concepts of statistical-based soil sampling to development of hardware...
Market Watch
July 28, 2011
AgWorks Software has announced the launch of its AgTankTracker software. AgTankTracker focuses on the need for a robust mobile point of activity (POA) data capture and reporting software to support the EPA mini bulk compliance regulations that go into...
Excellence Awards
July 28, 2011
Forgey was a founding member of the Upper Midwest Space Consortium (UMAC) at the University of North Dakota. UMAC provides remote sensing (RS) imagery and collaborates with farmers to develop RS agriculture applications. He has been using RS and...
Data Management
July 28, 2011
Asking The Experts
Technology of all kinds is changing rapidly, and it's a challenge to keep up and keep it all straight. So we asked some of our smartest industry friends to weigh in on the question to make sure...
Excellence Awards
July 28, 2011
Beck manages and directs the Practical Farm Research facilities that promote agronomic and precision ag technologies and developments. A key goal for Beck and his group is to demonstrate new practices, including precision ag technologies, which allow growers to...
Data Management
July 14, 2011
From the pre-conference field day and PrecisionAg Award Of Excellence presentation, to the booming trade show floor and the PrecisionAg luncheon, InfoAg 2011 featured a number of highlights. Below are some of the photos taken at this year's event....
Market Watch
July 14, 2011
SST Software customers got half-day's worth of networking, new offerings from the company, and the formalization of a leadership succession plan during the company's Vision Conference on July 11.
"This is really a formalization of a leadership transition that has...
Guidance
July 14, 2011
Effective immediately, Ewout Korpershoek, formerly managing director of Topcon Europe Positioning (TEP), will join the Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) senior executive team as chief marketing officer responsible for all marketing and product management functions at TPS and TEP. He...
Excellence Awards
July 14, 2011
CropLife Media Group Editor Paul Schrimpf presented the 2011 PrecisionAg Awards of Excellence to Dan Forgey (Farmer Award), Dave Nerpel (Crop Adviser/Entrepreneur Award), Scott Beck (Agriculture Educator/Researcher Award), and Dr. Nyle Wollenhaupt (Legacy Award). View photos from the awards...
Market Watch
July 14, 2011
The InfoAg 2011 Field Day included stops at Monsanto's Illiopolis seed production plant, the Farm Progress Show site, and Jenner Sales. View some of the photo highlights below. For more pictures, visit us on Facebook here....
Market Watch
July 6, 2011
Leica Geosystems has released the new features for the AS7500 section controller. The most significant feature enables the user to record field inclusion boundaries and exclusion zones. These boundaries and zones can be utilised to control the auto section...
Market Watch
July 5, 2011
Trimble has introduced its new high-accuracy Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) correction technology, Trimble RTX technology. Trimble RTX (Real-Time Extended) combines real-time data with innovative positioning and compression algorithms to deliver better than 4 centimeter (1.5 inch) repeatable accuracy...
Guidance
July 5, 2011
Trimble has introduced its new high-accuracy Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) compatible correction service. The Trimble CenterPoint RTX correction service can offer 4 centimeter (1.5 inch) repeatable accuracy and will be available initially through Trimble's Agriculture Division.
CenterPoint RTX is...
Guidance
June 23, 2011
The Precision Agriculture team at Auburn University was founded more than a decade ago, but over the past two years has been actively working to get its information out both to the growers it serves and to interested parties...
