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Matt Hopkins
Matt Hopkins is Senior Online Editor for the Agribusiness Group at Meister Media Worldwide including such brands as CropLife, CropLife IRON, AgriBusiness Global, PrecisionAg, and Cotton Grower. He is responsible for managing an array of online products including newsletters, websites, video, and social media. Hopkins joined Meister Media in 1994 as an editor for Greenhouse Grower before transitioning to Business Manager of its MeisterPro division. He holds a Communications degree from Cleveland State University.
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Robot Umpires to Robot Tractors: Similarities Run Deep Between Baseball and Agriculture
If we continue to invest in the use of technology in agriculture and baseball, we’ll ensure our passion for both will realize a sustainable future.
Digital Farming
June 24, 2019
4 Ag-Tech Leaders Who Are Smashing Geographical Silos
Are geographical silos impacting our ability to communicate a unified vision in precision agriculture? It’s a loaded question, for sure, with no simple answer. But it’s one that technology-focused leaders should ask themselves if they truly want to make...
Market Intelligence
September 10, 2018
Top 20 Two-Year Colleges for Precision Agriculture
Earlier this year, I compiled a list of the 25 best colleges for precision agriculture. It was quite the process. It required gathering invaluable input from industry experts and conducting extensive Internet research, as well as surveying the heads...
Farm to Fork
July 2, 2018
Precision Ag Technology: Act Like You’ve Been There Before
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...
Market Intelligence
March 21, 2018
25 Best Colleges for Precision Agriculture
Choosing the right college is a process. It’s one that I’m just now embarking on with my teenage daughter. Long before she’ll find herself inundated with acceptance letters (or at least I hope so), she’ll need to visit campuses,...
Market Intelligence
December 5, 2017
10 New Mobile Apps for Precision Agriculture
Ag professionals continue to reap the rewards of new smartphone apps. And perhaps no segment of farming is benefitting more from the increased productivity — and profitability — from using mobile technology than precision agriculture. From collecting data and...
Market Watch
March 31, 2017
Field Scouting Apps Boost Efficiency, Speed
Mobile apps are helping ag retailers and consultants take their scouting services to the next level.
Scouting is one of the most critical services that ag retailers and consultants can offer their grower-customers. The need for...
Market Watch
March 1, 2017
5 Compelling Reasons To Join The PrecisionAg Professional LinkedIn Group
Many ag professionals are actively using sites such as Twitter and Facebook to promote their businesses. But perhaps no other social media platform helps you connect and engage with customers, colleagues, and companies better than LinkedIn. It has become...
Market Intelligence
February 6, 2017
17 Field Scouting Apps For Precision Agriculture
There are dozens of easy-to-use mobile apps that are ideal for every day field scouting tasks. From record keeping and note taking, to real-time crop condition maps and in-field decision support, today’s apps help make scouting as fast and...
Market Watch
June 1, 2016
New Deere Air Hoe Seeder Features Latest In Precision Placement
The new 1870 Air Hoe Seeder from John Deere features the latest in precision placement and depth and pressure control to make it one of the most rugged, dynamic air seeders on the market today.
Small...
Market Watch
June 1, 2016
John Deere Introduces MaxEmerge 5e Row Units For Spring 2017
The MaxEmerge 5 eDrive row units have an electric drive meter which allows each row unit to work independently.
To help corn and soybean growers improve planting accuracy, reliability and uptime during this critical time of...
Digital Farming
June 1, 2016
Agrible Joins Field to Market Alliance
Agrible, Inc., has joined Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture as an associate member. As a leading multi-stakeholder initiative, Field to Market is working to unite the agricultural supply chain in defining, measuring and advancing the sustainability...
Guidance
June 1, 2016
Deere Launches Plethora of Precision Ag Products
Two new row guidance products available for John Deere sprayers
Two new AutoTrac products are available to help row crop producers and ag service providers more accurately navigate row-crop fields when making postemergence sprayer applications.
AutoTrac Vision utilizes a single-lens camera...
Data Management
June 1, 2016
SST to Offer ClearAg Iteris Data by Fall
SST Software and Iteris, Inc., have entered into a content partnership agreement to deliver ClearAg agronomic information to SST users. The partnership will integrate real-time weather insights to help SST users improve operational performance and decision-making.
“The integration of Iteris’...
Irrigation
May 31, 2016
FIGARO Project To Demonstrate Advanced Precision Irrigation
FIGARO, an EU-funded international project focused on developing the new precision agriculture Decision Support System (DSS) to improve irrigation management for increasing water productivity, will unveil the world's most advanced precision irrigation at a partners' meeting which will take...
Data Management
May 31, 2016
Report: Precision Agriculture Drives Drone Market Growing At 35% CAGR To 2022
In LiDAR drone market, precision agriculture application is expected to grow at the highest CAGR. Precision agriculture involves the usage of drones to monitor soil erosion and crop maturity, mitigate the effects of frost, and monitor invasive plant species...
Data Management
May 31, 2016
SLANTRANGE Makes Precision Agriculture Even More Precise
All it took was a few drone flights over Nebraska cornfields for Mike Ritter, CEO of SLANTRANGE, to show farmers the value of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in agriculture using the technology developed by his company, writes Patrick C....
Digital Farming
May 31, 2016
Research Firm: Growers Seek Out Disruptive Technologies
Despite the outlook for low farm net income and a down farm economy, large American farmers have a surprisingly aggressive outlook toward buying and utilizing new technologies on their operations, with high hopes for potentially disruptive entrants. According to a...
Digital Farming
May 31, 2016
Bayer, Planetary Resources Sign Development Memorandum
Bayer and the aerospace technology company Planetary Resources, based in Redmond, WA, have signed a memorandum of understanding about the development of applications and products based on satellite images. Bayer intends to purchase these data from Planetary Resources to...
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