Do you remember those cartoons where someone lures someone else by placing a piece of candy, small amount of money, or breadcrumbs in a row that ends in a trap under a box propped up by a stick attached...

Amy Winstead is the Chief Technology Officer for Agri-AFC in Decatur, AL, where she manages the precision ag services the company provides to its customers in a four-state area. Amy Winstead considers herself blessed to have...

SatShot President Lanny Faleide has been a fixture on the remote imagery scene for as long as about anyone still trying to make the technology work for agriculture. He was one of the first people we met back in...

Blue River’s See & Spray technology has vast potential to, in the words of VP of business development Ben Chostner, “make every plant count.” Blue River anticipates a 2018 launch for See & Spray in...

(EDITOR'S NOTE: This is Part II of Tim Norris' Yield Monitor Calibration checklist, Part I of which was published in print in our August 2017 issue of PrecisionAg® Professional, as well as online here.) In The Field Steps Vibration Calibration:...

Ag Info Tech in Fredericktown, OH With fall harvest a few weeks away for most of the country, ag service providers from every walk of life are getting ready for yield monitor calibration season. Ag Info...

Jill Scheidt, University of Missouri Generally speaking, any ag service provider’s most important job is to help grower-customers produce more with less. According to Jill Scheidt, a University of Missouri Extension agronomy specialist operating out of Barton...

These photos demonstrate the stark difference between (left) medium and very high resolution. Field imagery in agriculture has been around for decades. But as the industry stands in “Crop Season 2017,” agriculture still has a ways...

As you have seen throughout this report, aerial imagery has been a “thing” in agriculture for decades. Systems and delivery mechanisms have come, gone, and evolved. New satellite deployment for image capture has exploded in recent years, while the...

Look around a bit, and you will find lots of information and ideas about when and how to use imagery for row crop management on the Internet. Whole books have been written about this subject, and lots of papers...

This summer will likely go down in ag history as “The Summer of Dicamba.” But as far as mainstream media is concerned, 2017 is turning out to be the Summer of the #HotTake. Will we EVER have a passable health care...

Here at PrecisionAg® Professional we’re all about the numbers. And taking a look back at the numbers, it appears that many of you thoroughly enjoyed June's featured Listicle, the “Top 10 Most Intriguing Technologies in Agriculture,” making it the top viewed...

Mixmate, designed for both growers and retailers, can simply be loaded onto a tender truck for a job. It can run by one staff person (changing out jugs, mini-bulks, and water) and any Android device. More...

Dave Uberuaga, Wilbur-Ellis What's a powerhouse retail network to do when it can’t find a software system to meet incredibly diverse needs? Build its own. That’s what Wilbur-Ellis Co. did when it debuted AgVerdict in 2014. The...

Before finding EFC Systems, Marshall County Co-op’s Tim Ferrell ran into a long list of extra costs during his multiple software switches. No one in their right mind wants to change software. That’s the opinion of...

Go Feed Yourself. That’s the catchphrase of my favorite ag Twitter personality, Shark Farmer (@sf28430), who besides bringing plenty of LULZ to the ag twittersphere also hosts “The Farmer and the City Girl” podcast alongside unabashed loudmouth and Wisconsinite Carrie...

GreenPoint Ag has developed a program for precision ag technology, called Incompass. This all-inclusive program brings together multiple farm data collection and analysis tools to help farmers use crop inputs more efficiently and realize maximum economic...

Delicato Family Vineyards in Manteca, CA, is leveraging precision ag technology to tailor its management practices to optimize grape production. Tucked away amidst the softly rolling green hills of California’s uber-productive Central Coast Valley, Delicato Family...

PrecisionAg Professional Editors Matthew Grassi and Paul Schrimpf list unmanned technology as one of the 10 most intriguing technologies in agriculture. Pictured is the autonomous concept tractor from Case IH. This may be a bit of...

From its early days being held in central Illinois, InfoAg has always strived to keep its finger on the pulse of precision agriculture. Back in these first few shows, the show attracted a few hundred attendees/exhibitors as the agricultural...