Ryan Raguse
Ryan Raguse is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Myriad Mobile, the parent company to Bushel. Having grown up on a farm, Ryan can’t shake the feeling of a hard day at work in the field and he returns to the farm for field work in the spring and fall. Outside of those two times, Ryan can be reached at [email protected].
Market Watch
September 5, 2018
SciFi in Ag: Self-Reacting Spray Nozzles to Fight Dicamba Drift
Article Notes: This monthly column takes some crazy sounding ideas and applies them to the field of Ag Tech. The purpose of this is purely entertainment, but hey, if we can spread ideas or ignite imaginations, how awesome is...
In-Field Technologies
July 31, 2018
SciFi in Ag: Rolls Royce Tech On Your Planter? Robotic Bugs for Maintenance?
Article Notes: This monthly column takes some crazy sounding ideas and applies them to the field of Ag Tech. The purpose of this is purely entertainment, but hey, if we can spread ideas or ignite imaginations, how awesome is...
Drones | UAVs
March 20, 2018
SciFi in Ag: Precision Aerial Planting Next Up for Ag?
What do trees, drones, and minefields all have in common? Precision aerial planting.
A concept first introduced in the 1930’s (possibly as early as 1926) to originally reseed a mountain in Honolulu, planting via an airplane has captured our imagination...
Industry News
February 7, 2018
SciFi in Ag: Stanford Cooling Project Could Drive Energy ROI in Row Crops
(Article Notes: This monthly column takes some crazy sounding ideas and applies them to the field of Ag Tech. The purpose of this is purely entertainment, but hey, if we can spread ideas or ignite imaginations, how awesome is...
Market Watch
December 28, 2017
SciFi in Ag: Pesticides Replaced by Bacteria and Remote Controlled Bugs?
(Article Notes: This monthly column takes some crazy sounding ideas and applies them to the field of Ag Tech. The purpose of this is purely entertainment, but hey, if we can spread ideas or ignite imaginations, how awesome is...
Market Watch
November 21, 2017
SciFi in Ag: Smart Pills for Cows (and other livestock)
On November 13th of this year, the FDA approved the first digital pill for human-use with a digital ingestible sensor.
The sensor itself, about the size of a grain of sand, is activated by the use of energy from stomach...
Data Management
October 28, 2017
SciFi in Ag: Exploding Hydrogen Bubbles
(This monthly column takes some crazy sounding ideas and applies them to the field of Ag Tech. The purpose of this is purely entertainment, but hey, if we can spread ideas or ignite imaginations, how awesome is that?)
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Market Watch
September 26, 2017
SciFi in Ag: Chatbot with your Plants?
(Article Notes: This monthly column takes some crazy sounding ideas and applies them to the field of Ag Tech. The purpose of this is purely entertainment, but hey, if we can spread ideas or ignite imaginations, how awesome is...
Market Watch
August 23, 2017
SciFi in Ag: Harnessing the Cloud
Editor's Note: This monthly column takes some crazy sounding ideas and applies them to the field of Ag Tech. The purpose of this is purely entertainment, but hey, if we can spread ideas or ignite imaginations, how awesome is...
In-Field Technologies
July 28, 2017
SciFi in Ag: The Great ‘Small-Family-Farm’ Comeback
One company in North Dakota owns 42,000 acres of prime farmland, 34 grain elevators, a grain-trading firm, and three company towns with dozens of smaller company-owned businesses.
Never heard of it? Probably because the year is 1893.
Bonanza farms, as it...
Market Watch
July 5, 2017
SciFi in Ag: Is In-Vitro Meat the Future of Animal Ag?
*Article Notes: This monthly column takes some crazy sounding ideas and applies them to the field of Ag Tech. The purpose of this is purely entertainment, but hey, if we can spread ideas or ignite imaginations, how awesome is...
Market Watch
May 25, 2017
Sci-Fi in Ag: The Waging War of Plant-Internet Bots
Article Notes: This monthly column takes some crazy sounding ideas and applies them to the field of Ag Tech. The purpose of this is purely entertainment, but hey, if we can spread ideas or ignite imaginations, how awesome is...
Market Watch
April 21, 2017
Bionic Leaves: Future Source of Endless Fertilizer?
*Article Notes: This monthly column takes some crazy sounding ideas and applies them to the field of Ag Tech. The purpose of this is purely entertainment, but hey, if we can spread ideas or ignite imaginations, how awesome is...
In-Field Technologies
March 23, 2017
SciFi in Ag: Robots Could Take Multi-Hybrid Planting Next Level
*Article Notes: This monthly column takes some crazy sounding ideas and applies them to the field of Ag Tech. The purpose of this is purely entertainment, but hey, if we can spread ideas, or ignite imaginations, how awesome is...
Market Watch
February 23, 2017
SciFi in Ag: What do North Dakota, Peru, and Mars Have in Common? Farming, of Course
Matt Damon farming potatoes on Mars in "The Martian"
In early 2016, I was lucky enough to hike the Salkantay Mountain range in Peru. It’s about a 50 mile hike at elevations up to 15,000 feet....
Market Watch
January 19, 2017
SciFi in Ag: Will Amazon’s Alexa Control the Family Farm Someday?
*Article Notes: This monthly column takes some crazy sounding ideas and applies them to the field of Ag Tech. The purpose of this is purely entertainment, but hey, if we can spread ideas, or ignite imaginations, how awesome is...
Market Watch
December 20, 2016
Vertical Land Farming? A Bust. Vertical Ocean Farming? The Next Frontier.
*Article Notes: This monthly column takes some crazy sounding ideas and applies them to the field of Ag Tech. The purpose of this is purely entertainment, but hey, if we can spread ideas, or ignite imaginations, how awesome is...
In-Field Technologies
November 22, 2016
Insecticide of the Future? Robotic Tanks With Lasers to Kill Pests
*Article Notes: This monthly column takes some crazy sounding ideas and applies them to the field of Ag Tech. The purpose of this is purely entertainment, but hey, if we can spread ideas, or ignite imaginations, how awesome is...
Market Watch
October 24, 2016
OPINION: What if Grain Bin Walls Could Monitor Moisture?
*GUEST COLUMNIST’S NOTE: This monthly column takes some crazy sounding ideas and applies them to the field of Ag Tech. The purpose of this is purely entertainment, but hey, if we can spread ideas, or ignite imaginations, how awesome...
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