Toiling away at Jackson State Community College in Jackson, TN, Tim Sharp accomplished the impossible — he put a viable, field-based precision agriculture program for cotton on the map, and he did it in the community college environment. His...

Our example of precision technology success in the eastern Corn Belt was an examination of Ag-Knowledge, a program of the precision consulting division of Central Ohio Farmers Co-operative, headquartered in Marion, OH. Program Coordinator Tim Norris, still working through...

Clay Mitchell can't sleep at night when something in his farm has been left to chance. That's the impression we were left with last fall when we spent some quality "cab time" with this eastern Iowa grower. Technology is truly...

Precision agriculture practices are finally starting to show a clear payout for growers in the Cotton Belt, thanks to the hard work of many growers, consultants, institutions, and manufacturers in strong collaboration. One of these individuals, Tim Sharp, was...

John Diener, a San Joaquin Valley grower, is definitely encouraged by the information he's garnering through precision agriculture, but that doesn't mean he's prepared to jump in with both feet."We're not going crazy, but we're moving on it," he...

Precision agriculture technology and cotton. For years, experts have speculated that this would some day become a marriage made in heaven for growers throughout the Delta, bringing profitability and stability to a beleaguered market. And yet, the "precision revolution" has...

Precision agriculture technology should be a means to an end, not the end itself. Early in the precision "revolution," though, fascination with technology led to big investments by retailers in the "stuff of technology" — pretty machines delivering pretty...

Precision agriculture may not have caught on as quickly in California as it has in other parts of the U.S. because the growing of fruits, vegetables, and other specialty crops is done on a generally smaller scale than grains,...

Following its recent acquisition of Rawson Control Systems, a founding member of the PrecisionAg Institute, Trimble Navigation has assumed Rawson's leadership position in the Institute. The PrecisionAg Institute is an independent global forum dedicated to the sharing of precision...

Daughtry is an agronomist and Doraiswamy an agricultural meteorologist with the ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland. "Tillage intensity" is defined by the percentage of soil covered by residue from the previous crop. At least one-third of...

For Tim Norris, it seems like a perfectly logical progression. When we first visited Norris in the fall of 2003, he was heading up a precision consulting division of an Ohio cooperative, helping grower-clients of the company discover the benefits...

On the Mitchell Farm in eastern Iowa, inefficiency and uncertainty are tolerated about as much as foxtail in corn fields across the Midwest. Once a problem or issue is identified, it becomes an itch that needs to be scratched...

Plant stress in early growing stages can be difficult to detect to the naked eye, but plants will provide clues in the form of chlorophyll content which affects light absorption and reflectance by the plant. The New Field Scout CM...

The Stormx Agriculture site offers a wider range of functionality that includes the following: - Crop yield mapping, including historical and forecast maps - Expert commentary on agriculture and weather risks - USDA crop condition and progress charts - Observed and forecast weather...

GPS Guidance will increase accuracy and precision of linear irrigation equipment when compared with conventional irrigation guidance. It also will help eliminate some maintenance issues associated with existing guidance options. "GPS has become standard for precision farming, from field mapping...

From CropLife Magazine, April, 2009 When John Deere Agri Services chose to shutter its OptiGro remote imagery offering in the spring of 2008, it soon after sold the business to GeoVantage. This was the very same company that Deere...

For more than 15 years, Agri ImaGIS Technologies has been using technology to help farmers worldwide to manage their fields more effectively and has become a leader in remote-sensing for the agriculture industry. Agri ImaGIS uses satellite imagery to...

We got a call this week from a writer at the magazine Popular Science, and the conversation was pretty exciting. The author is working on a series of articles that highlight how technology is shaping the future of agriculture,...

The computer has moved from the office into the field. Today, people who perform normal job functions in demanding environments use rugged mobile computers that guard against water and dust, operate in high and low temperatures, and protect against...

ZedX, Inc. developer of web-based, agro-meteorological, decision support services, and Infoterra, an EADS Astrium company, a global provider of geo-information products and services announce the release of CropForecaster. CropForecaster offers a comprehensive set of online products including maps and summary...