Guidance
April 27, 2011
A visit to my Uncle Gerald offered me another example of agriculture's continuous innovation. As we together marveled at guidance systems (he had earlier seen a neighbor's GPS system) he reminisced of an earlier method of precision planting that...
Market Watch
April 27, 2011
Topcon Precision Agriculture's new System 210 land-forming and water management system incorporates and supports three important segments of modern farming operations; topographic surveying, design execution, and land leveling without leaving the tractor cab.
System 210 uses Topcon's Agriculture GPS+ System...
Guidance
April 22, 2011
Michael T. Scuse, USDA's Deputy Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services (FFAS), will be the keynote speaker during the opening plenary session on Wednesday, July 12 at the 2011 InfoAg Conference.
Scuse will be discussing the potential consolidation...
Data Management
April 21, 2011
Onset Computer Corporation recently announced that its HOBO U30 Weather Stations can now feed live weather data to Weather Underground, which provides free online weather information to millions of web users.
Market Watch
April 21, 2011
Topcon Precision Agriculture's new field design, grading and survey software "AGForm-3D" is an intuitive and easy-to-use water management solution for improving irrigation and surface drainage.
"The advanced software features a unique and powerful capability for non-planar surface designs," said Kevin...
Excellence Awards
April 18, 2011
Joe Russo, ZedX, Inc.
Dr. Joe Russo is a co-founder and president of ZedX, Inc., an information technology company specializing in decision-support algorithms and data visualization tools for the agricultural and environmental industries.
Since 1999, Dr. Russo...
Excellence Awards
April 18, 2011
Ted Macy, MapShots
Ted Macy and his wife, Nancy, grew up on farm operations in Indiana. It was as a freshman at Purdue University that Macy's vision of ag data management was born. His programming experiences...
Excellence Awards
April 18, 2011
Arthur Lange, Trimble
In 1974, Arthur Lange joined the team at Hewlett Packard, working in what would become Silicon Valley, until the 1980s. It was at this point that Lange decided to take a job from...
Excellence Awards
April 18, 2011
Allen Myers, Ag Leader
Raised on an Illinois farm, Allen Myers always had a love for the mechanical aspect of farming. This led him to study agricultural engineering at the University of Illinois, where he earned...
Excellence Awards
April 18, 2011
Scott Shearer, University of Kentucky
For the past 22 years, Scott A Shearer has worked at the University of Kentucky as an educator, a researcher, a mentor and an innovator. He is a member of the...
Excellence Awards
April 18, 2011
Norm Teegardin, Farm Works
Norm Teegardin started in the fields and grew his software from what he learned there. He has always been dedicated to making growers' jobs easier and making their work more efficient through...
Guidance
April 13, 2011
The Topcon-AGCO partnership bore more fruit recently with the announcement that Topcon's AES-25 Accurate Electric Steering Wheel and the System 150 automated steering system may be used on select self-propelled windrowers from Hesston by Massey Ferguson and Challenger. These...
Industry News
April 13, 2011
Hatfield Consultants of Vancouver, BC has become a reseller of RapidEye imagery. The recently signed contract between the two companies allows the Hatfield group to market and sell RapidEye products in Canada and the United States.
"This cooperation will help...
Guidance
April 13, 2011
Ag Leader Technology, Inc., and global sprayer specialist HARDI INTERNATIONAL A/S announced a cooperative effort to bring greater performance, productivity and profitability to the market with the introduction of the HC 9500 controller, a customized display available on select...
Industry News
April 13, 2011
On April 7, NORAC, Inc. officially expanded its US operations as it cut the ribbon on a new facility located in Bloomington, MN. It will double as NORAC's US office and warehouse space.
This move was deemed essential by NORAC's...
Guidance
April 11, 2011
Fifteen years ago when you asked a group of farmers in a meeting how many are using precision ag, only a few hand would go up. Today the response may be about the same. Have we not made progress?...
Market Watch
April 7, 2011
GVM has added Brad Peiffer to its GVM AgJunction team. Residing in Moline, Illinois, Brad will focus on Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
Brad brings more than 20 years of experience in the...
Data Management
March 30, 2011
Beck's Hybrids and MyRainReport.com, powered by RainWave, have formed a partnership that makes Beck's Hybrids the exclusive provider of MyRainReport.com; providing services in Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and parts of Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, and Kentucky. Beck's will offer the service...
Imagery
March 29, 2011
Geospatial solution provider RapidEye recently announced that it has completed an extensive imagery campaign over Africa, and has signed a distribution agreement with Ramani Geosystems located in Kenya.
The contract allows Ramani to distribute RapidEye products throughout the entire continent...
Guidance
March 24, 2011
Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) is working closely with Topcon Corporation in Tokyo and supporting efforts of all Topcon subsidiaries in response to the major earthquake and ensuing tsunami that hit Japan on March 11.
Anofficial statement from Topcon Corporation on...
