From the service provider standpoint, getting into the aerial imagery as a service game was once an either/or proposition: Either you partner locally with a fleet of aerial application planes for weekly flyovers with a sensor payload, or you...

Veris’ electrical conductivity (EC) system for grading soil types has endured for years on the strength of its true believers and slow, steady growth. Used as the foundational test for zone management schemes, Veris has gained users with the...

Aside from field and equipment-deployed sensing, the other end of the spectrum is sensing in the grain bin. From the perspective of the local cooperative storing and marketing its grower-customers’ grain, success here is absolutely vital in keeping that...

Sensors are certainly nothing new to agriculture. Although they are getting more and more robust, on-board sensors have been providing feedback on the operation of machinery for many years. Liquid tank monitors on bulk chemical tanks have been tracking...

Project coordinator Andrew Klopfenstein (left) and Dr. Scott Shearer show us some telemetry data from a Farmobile PUC on an iPad. I hope you read my colleague Paul Schrimpf’s editorial that discusses some exciting changes we...

Farmers Edge, a global leader in precision agriculture and independent data management solutions, announced today that it has partnered with Blair’s Family of Companies, a regional provider of innovative crop and livestock solutions. The partnership provides Blair's customers with...

A dozen leading U.S. grower organizations are hailing the collaborative efforts that led to the new AgGateway ADAPT framework for interoperability in precision ag systems – citing the many benefits to farmers, and are calling on Farm Management Information...

If you’re running a large corn or soybean operation, you’re a lot more likely to be using precision agriculture practices and seeing results like increased operating profits — at least that’s what research by the USDA says, writes Anna...

We revisit with Central Ohio grower Jim Case and farm manager Nate Long (featured in the February 2016 Precision Ag Magazine cover story "Think Data First: Multi-Hybrid Simplicity") for fall harvest and find out what they've learned going...

Another shot of Jim Case and Nate Long in action during fall harvest 2016. YOU VERY WELL may remember central Ohio grower Jim Case from a cover story in Precision Ag Special Reports that ran back...

Business and technical executives seeking to advance their companies' electronic connections with trading partners are encouraged to attend this year's AgGateway Annual Conference, November 7-10 at the Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld, Orlando, FL. This year's program features interactive, technical...

The Ohio State University’s Farm Science Review has become an annual rite of fall for Buckeye State growers, retailers and the rest of Ohio’s flourishing agriculture scene. In a state where all-things-football basically rule the calendar from late-August into the...

Mitchell Technical Institute precision agriculture students recently used the program's new Trimble UX5 drone to survey land and take high resolution images. Photo: MitchellRepublic.com After weeks of sitting in the classroom, several Mitchell Technical Institute students...

New Zealand farmer Craige Mackenzie won the 2016 PrecisionAg Farmer of the Year Award. Craige MacKenzie travelled recently to St Louis, MO, to receive the award of Precision Agriculture Farmer of the Year from the U.S.-based...

West Central Distribution recently announced the launch of IntelliMax, a confidential and customizable data management platform designed for ag retailers as a turnkey solution for grower data management and analysis, seller and grower program management, and manufacturer reporting. In keeping...

Simply put, as editors we tend to receive a TON of advertiser-generated press releases between our dual-roles publishing both CropLife.com and PrecisionAg.com. Most of the time we re-post the text (with a few minor edits for style, punctuation, and the...

Steve Cubbage has seen that precision agriculture use has been closely tied to farmers’ ability to see a profit from it, writes Benjamin Herrold, Missouri Farmer Today. Farmers have kept looking for ways to use precision ag to improve their...

Precision agriculture — with all its wacky technologies and advanced algorithms and such — remains a people business. So, without further adieu, on the pages ahead are the Top 10 people (in alphabetical order) we feel are driving precision agriculture...

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "World Precision Agriculture Market - Opportunities and Forecasts, 2014 - 2022" report to their offering. Precision agriculture is a farming management technique used to improve site specific farming through evaluation of...

Like it’s done for many other industries, the internet is improving the agricultural sector. Farmers are making more use of the internet to access information on the weather, soil conditions and market activity. The better that farmers understand these factors,...