Harvest is always an exciting time of the year, to reap the workings of an entire growing season and begin evaluating decisions to make for the coming season and year. Knowing how trials, varieties/hybrids, and management practices impacted final...

Editor's note: Proagrica, an international provider of connectivity solutions specifically for the agriculture industry, recently examined the key challenges and pain points that businesses face in the agriculture supply chain — and the benefits gained — by adopting digital systems. Challenge...

Contributing writer Jacob Maurer was granted the opportunity to be a decision-maker as part of a collaborative team in charge of a 90-acre research farm in North Dakota’s southern Red River Valley. It’s one thing to...

The GAR Agronomy team tests a variety of technology products that could be of interest to its grower clients, from weather and soil sensors to irrigation and water efficiency. Photo courtesy of Gar Tootelian. In California’s...

There’s no ironclad approach to building business through a precision program offering. There are as many nuanced approaches to success as there are retail organizations serving agriculture. But one thing is almost always certain: Whatever approach is taken must be...

The business outlook for many co-operatives offering growers retail, marketing, and agronomic services is one that has changed greatly over the last several years. Co-ops across the country are facing a variety of challenges that threaten their profitability –...

I think it’s safe to say we’re pretty obsessed with adoption in this industry, aren’t we? Whether it be on trade show floors at the various winter meetings, in meetings with our PrecisionAg Institute member companies, or in dreary, fluorescent-lighted...

From commodity prices and competition for business to future-proofing the operation, ag retailers shared their challenges and concerns in a recent survey conducted by Proagrica.

An attentive classroom of 50 precision agriculture managers gathered in Brookings, SD, in June for the inaugural PrecisionAg® Professional Accelerator, a three-day professional development program. The event was sponsored by EFC Systems and Raven Industries and co-hosted by South...

It's not every day that this reporter walks into the office of a precision ag dealer, sits across from the owner at his component-strewn desk, and the first words spoken are, “I’m not sure what you’re going to get...

Iowa agriculture is now worth more than $15 billion according to the USDA, writes Jake Slobe on ClayandMilk.com. For entrepreneurs and investors willing to look outside of Silicon Valley, Iowa’s agricultural technology — often called “agtech” — ecosystem offers valuable...

  InfoAg 2018 - Union Station, St. Louis, MO. InfoAg, precision farming’s annual mid-summer blowout, is about a week in the rearview as I type this, a hazy Midwestern summer morning underway here in Ohio. Seven days later,...

We here at PrecisionAg.com and PrecisionAg Professional recently had the opportunity to attend the 2018 Conservation Technology Information Center's annual Conservation In Action Tour, which took place in various locations around the Chesapeake Bay region in Maryland, July 10-11. Here...

Respondents to a CropLife® magazine survey on precision agriculture programs reveal confidence in value delivered and a strong internal commitment to the business ... but challenges remain. In the overall agriculture market, the rhetoric surrounding emerging...

One of my dad’s favorite, albeit borrowed, sayings was, “Act like you’ve been there before.” He was mostly referring to NFL players who showboat after scoring touchdowns (think Deion “Primetime” Sanders or Billy “White Shoes” Johnson). And forget about today’s...

The 2018 4R Nutrient Stewardship Summit, held June 11-12 in Des Moines, IA, featured a post-event reception at the World Food Prize Hall of Laureates. Although implicit to anyone that spends a good chunk of their...

Let me begin this column by extending my congratulations to all of my fellow students who have just graduated – congrats on a job well done! It was a lot of hard work, and now you have a degree...

Agriculture today has been exploding with new advancements in technology, posing the future for a farm filled with data and information. Decoding and understanding this data through analysis and agronomics is key for success and finding the opportunities in...

In 1936, deep in the throes of the Great Depression, the federal government moved forward with an initiative that would eventually modernize every home in rural America: the Rural Electrification Act (REA). Driven by the federal government, money began to...

With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), we are now seeing farmers use more wireless technologies to increase the quality and efficiency of production to achieve higher yields. IoT has opened the door for engineers to develop...