With the end of winter in sight, many in the agricultural industry are starting to get serious on their choices of precision agriculture technologies for the upcoming growing season. Whether the choice is equipment, software, or just taking soil...

As the 2007 spring season kicks into high gear, market analysts expect one sight to dominate the agricultural landscape — rows and rows of corn, as far as the eye can see. Many crop watchers are predicting that as...

There's certainly no single "right way" for a retailer or consultant to deliver precision agriculture services to grower-customers. Depending on how deep one wants to get into the data processing, what variables are to be considered, and what kind...

In an effort to recognize the individual excellence in precision agriculture, the PrecisionAg InstituteTM today announced the launch of the PrecisionAg Award of Excellence. The award will honor three individuals who are working to advance precision agriculture technology adoption, use,...

Improving accuracy and efficiency at The Mitchell Farm in Buckingham, IA, comes one confident step forward at a time. Each yearly visit to the family-owned farm has found Clay, his father Wade, and great uncle Philip working on yet...

Last year about this time, Jeff Nesbitt of Precision Partners, Fergus Falls, MN was feeling pretty optimistic about prospects for new clients. Retailers he talked to were truly getting a handle on the advantages of variable-rate fertilization, and they...

Tough times in the tree fruit industry around the turn of this past century led a group of visionary industry leaders to prepare a plan for success, of which precision agriculture is a key component. The need for such...

This Winter issue is easily the most enjoyable of the quarterly PrecisionAg Special Reports we put out every year. I like it because we continue to learn from and build on our experiences with an interesting and highly motivated...

Tim Sharp moved to Oklahoma State University's Okmulgee campus from Tennessee to start a new precision agriculture degree and to try to replicate his Mid-South cotton growing breakthroughs in Southwest dryland cotton. In Tennessee, it took four solid years of...

Tim Norris has covered a pretty wide waterfront since we first visited him three years ago. At the time, Norris was toiling away at a central Ohio cooperative, trying to get a precision agriculture program off the ground. By...

Many years ago, while doing a stint in academia, I participated in an introductory course in agriculture for freshman students. The course provided an overview of the field from a number of perspectives, which were represented by the instructors....

Precision agriculture's migration to the western U.S. has been sluggish as it has proved difficult to adapt many of the benefits to the fragile specialty crops that dominate the West. Just ask Fran Pierce, who moved west from Michigan...

About a year ago, in the backwoods of southwestern Georgia, I was part of a small group of precision agricultural enthusiasts driving late at night to a hotel in a rural town. The lack of familiarity with the terrain,...

Global position is arguably the most important tool that precision agriculture practitioners use in their operations. Let's face it - what good would any of the precision technology be without the foundation of georeferencing that global positioning provides? And yet,...

It's one of the most common complaints made by precision agriculture practitioners about precision agriculture: "Why don't these (fill in the blank with equipment) work together more eamlessly?" As virtually every industry develops, over time there becomes a crisis of...

It was cloudy and threatening rain for most of the day at Brandt Consolidated's Pleasant Plains, IL, Research and Development Farm during the retailer's second annual Agronomy Field Day last month. As the morning activities commenced, winds picked up...

1. Signal Blockage - Landscape and Buildings. "Accurate GPS and DGPS measurement require a clear line of site to the source, so having a clear view of the sky at all times grealy increases the accuracy of the signal,"...

Scaling towering grain legs to install an RTK (real-time kinematic) network repeater may not be most dealers' choice in this summer's scorching heat. But staff at Sunrise Cooperative, Norwalk, OH, are always looking for ways to service members better....

It's been an interesting four months since we began talking to agriculture manufacturers, universities, associations, agronomists, and growers about our new new initiative, the PrecisionAg Institute. We decided to launch the program because we were getting so much encouragement...

The CropLife Media Group is pleased to announce the launch of the PrecisionAg Institute, an independent global forum dedicated to the sharing of precision agriculture practices, ideas, research, products, services and success stories. "The Institute's intended mission is to foster...