Aaron Phillips of Trimble discusses how the company's Connected Farm utilizes wireless technology to transfer important data, manage vehicle movement, and provide sub-inch RTK corrections.   ...

CTIC will host its annual Conservation In Action Tour, August 8-9 in Northwest Ohio. This year's Tour will focus on agriculture's influence on the environmental and economic health of Maumee River and Bay, as well as Lake Erie. The...

Valley Irrigation recently introduced Pivot Cruise Control software, which allows producers to be even more precise with chemigation and fertigation. With the patent pending Cruise Control, available exclusively from Valley Irrigation, producers can program a center pivot irrigation machine equipped...

SST will once again hold its Vision Conference prior to the 2011 InfoAg Conference in Springfield, IL. The learning and networking event will be held on July 11 from 1:30 p.m - 5:30 p.m. at the Crowne Plaza Hotel. "For...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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?...