Kansas State University offers a spreadsheet tool that helps to evaluate the benefits of a global positioning system. To download the spreadsheet, visit the KSU site by clicking on the link and selecting GPS Guidance under "Decision-Making Tools."...

Quentin Rund of PAQ Interactive has been named the 2009 Crop Adviser/Entrepreneur Award winner for Precision Ag Excellence. The awards program is sponsored by the PrecisionAg Alliance. The Crop Adviser/Entrepreneur Award recognizes an individual or team who have established a...

Dr. David Clay of South Dakota State University has been named the 2009 Educator/Researcher Award winner for Precision Ag Excellence. The awards program is sponsored by the PrecisionAg Institute. The Educator/Reearcher award recognizes an individual whose research and/or education program...

Robert Blair (right), Kendrick, ID Robert Blair of Kendrick, ID, has been named 2009 Farmer Award winner for Precision Ag Excellence. The awards program is sponsored by the PrecisionAg Institute. The Farmer award recognizes an individual who...

David Waits, SST David Waits of SST Software has been named the 2009 Legacy Award winner for Precision Ag Excellence. The awards program is sponsored by the PrecisionAg Institute. The Legacy award recognizes an individual who has...

"Innovation Squared" is the theme of the FEMA (Farm Equipment Manufacturers Association) Pavilion at the Ag Connect Expo, Jan. 13-15, 2010 in Orlando, Florida. This special pavilion will be available exclusively to the specialized manufacturers that are members of the...

The Greenbook Group, provider of chemical plant protection data to the agriculture industry, has entered into a premium data licensing partnership with precision agriculture software manufacturer SST Software. Under the agreement, Greenbook will license its entire chemical input product...

SST Software and Raven Industries have formed a strategic alliance to provide customers with simple, more efficient ways to move and manage information for the precision agriculture market. The first of these solutions will be the integration of SST's...

Trimble has acquired the assets of privately-held CTN Data Service, LLC, creator of Farm Works software, located in Hamilton, IN. The acquisition is expected to accelerate Trimble's information management capabilities and offer agricultural customers significant new capabilities in their...

AgRobotics, LLC and GVM Inc. have formed a strategic alliance and marketing partnership for a 'next generation' GPS/GIS telematics offering which allows agricultural retailers to schedule, monitor, control, and track the AgRobotics™ soil sampling services using the on-the-go AutoProbe™...

Farmers who want to add auto-steer functionality to their older tractors have a new retrofit option with Leica Geosystems' release of the QuickSteer motor. The QuickSteer motor can be added to a wide range of agricultural vehicles that do...

Research out of Tel Aviv University has found that cell phone towers can help predict the next big flood. Though New Orleans residents were told to evacuate days before the arrival of Hurricane Katrina, no one could have predicted the...

Onset Computer recently introduced a new bracket that makes it fast and convenient to mount the company's light sensors for calculating Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) values. NDVI is the standard measure of the density of green vegetation in...

Iowa-based Ag Leader Technology, Inc., recently started construction on "Ag Leader Academy," a 25,000 square-foot facility dedicated to providing the ag industry with specialized, hands-on training of precision farming systems. "As precision farming solutions continue to advance, it is important...

Topcon Precision Agriculture (TPA) has opened its TPA North American headquarters in Olathe, KS. The facility, located at 16950 W. 118th Terrace, will handle sales, support and training for TPA, a business unit of Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) of Livermore,...

A feature on the 15 most significant innovations in precision agriculture seemingly would be best served through rigorous, scientific information gathering and iron-clad statistical analysis. This feature contains none of that. • Innovations: Instead, we asked the ultimate variable — PEOPLE...

Cotton growers in the MidSouth and Southeast have used GreenSeeker sensors to make variable-rate PGR applications. GreenSeeker sensors measure reflected light at wavelengths that correspond to crop vigor. An on-board computer calculates the PGR requirement based on the sensor...

Listed below are some warning signs that skipping an application could result in yield losses this year: • You've been using half to a third of the recommended rate, applied as a band. This practice relies on the increased plant...

Farm Market iD is owned by Telematch, Inc., a marketing intelligence solutions company. According to Lanny Faleide, president, Agri ImaGIS, "With Farm Market iD's proprietary data that identifies grower and farm detail, along with its geo-coded Common Land Units (CLUs),...

With two new patented features - a parallel link row unit and angled, double-shoot knife opener - the Precision Hoe 800 delivers the precision seed and fertilizer placement designed for demanding producers. "Controlling seed placement is critical to a plant's...