Analytics April 27, 2019 The VISION Conference has become established as the definitive precision agriculture and digital farming conference for North America. Pictured: Meister Media Worldwide Group Editor Paul Schrimpf moderates a session at the 2019 VISION Conference in...
Digital Farming April 26, 2019 If you have been following any precision ag media or technology news in general, there has been a lot of excitement and interest around blockchain. But what is blockchain? Where did it come from? More importantly, what does it...
Digital Farming March 19, 2019 AGCO announces a commercial and technological partnership with Solinftec, a Brazil-based developer and distributor of digital agriculture solutions.The partnership will reportedly give AGCO customers direct access to Solinftec´s portfolio of solutions including on-board computers, weather stations, soil sensors, telemetry...
Market Watch March 18, 2019 It began with four co-founders in “garage” mode in 2015. Less than four years later, Israeli ag-tech company Taranis has nearly 60 employees, five overseas offices, two acquired companies and $30 million in investments, writes Abigail Klein Leichman on ISRAEL21c. About 19,000 farmers...
Analytics March 13, 2019 For six generations, Ben Riensche’s family has tended corn and soybeans outside Jesup, a town of 2,500 on the windswept plains of eastern Iowa, writes Andrew Marc Noel on Bloomberg.com. But today he’s harvesting a valuable new crop from...
Analytics March 11, 2019 Image Credit: AgNewsWire/Chuck Zimmerman A little over a week and a half ago, the 2019 Commodity Classic took over the sprawling Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL, for the annual celebration of American farmers and...
Connectivity March 1, 2019 Learn more about the companies that have committed their corporate and financial support to the PrecisionAg Institute, an independent global forum dedicated to the sharing of precision agriculture practices, ideas, research, products, services and success stories.
Data Management January 30, 2019 How far are we from a computer being able to decide what variety or hybrid should be planted in a field, how it is fertilized, and prescribe crop protection chemicals needed? The promise of artificial intelligence (AI) has been...
Drones | UAVs January 23, 2019 Precision agriculture intelligence leader Taranis announced the launch of its new solution that calculates and monitors the planting of seeds. "Taranis is the first platform to offer farmers and agronomists a scalable answer to plot management strategy. The addition of...
Sensors January 15, 2019 Whether it’s having too much or too little, water is a constant struggle in agriculture. The adage that you can’t manage what you can’t measure is just as true for water as it is for finance and business. Given how...
Analytics January 3, 2019 Every year it is always interesting to reflect on the past and look for lessons learned in the last year. Agriculture is facing many challenges as we arrive in the New Year, and lessons can be learned or thought...
Sensors December 27, 2018 According to globalagriculture.org, agriculture is consuming the Earth’s available fresh water at a surprising rate: 70% of “blue water” from watercourses and groundwater is used for agriculture, the organization reports – three times the level used 50 years ago,...
Industry News December 21, 2018 Helena Agri-Enterprises Gro-Link Technician Katie Carnahan helps student Nathan Tague and Ivy Tech Ag Program Chair John Rosene adjust the grain spout on the program’s 30-year-old Gleaner combine. Industry supported educational programs at the college level...
Market Watch December 20, 2018 Craig Houin, Sunrise Cooperative; Photo Credit: Sunrise Cooperative, Piqua, OH. Asked to eulogize his precision program’s last 12 months in one singular word, Craig Houin, the R7/Data Innovation Lead at Sunrise Cooperative in Fremont, OH, thoughtfully...
Analytics December 18, 2018 "Life in the fast lane Surely make you lose your mind Life in the fast lane, yeah" Last week in Omaha, NE, was this author's inaugural (hopefully not the last?) trip to Farmers Business Network's annual all-things-pro-farmer blowout, Farmer2Farmer, which this...
Market Watch December 7, 2018 Anyone who reads this title will probably think: “well, isn’t this the case every year?” And yes, indeed, profitability is always important, and the bottom line is the main driver for decisions every cropping season. Coming off a season...
Data Management November 30, 2018 Jason Tatge, Farmobile CEO, shows us the latest Farmobile PUC for the 2018 growing season, at Commodity Classic 2017 in Decatur, IL. Ah yes, it’s that time of year again. That time of year when online publishers...
Digital Farming November 9, 2018 Editor's note: This article was originally published in November 2018. Paraguay is a country located in South America with a population of 6.8 million people, with much of its territory bordered by Brazil. Many people around the world still associate...
Data Management November 6, 2018 “For the first time ever, farmers are seeing that our imagery is as good as walking in the field. Farmers get it because it’s so visual. It’s a wow moment. ‘You captured this from a plane? That’s pretty amazing,’”...
Market Watch October 17, 2018 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...