Data Management
Bushel Co-Founder and CEO Jake Joraanstad says this will provide an integrated farmer experience and a “grain passport.”
The Smart Carbon program is just one example of how data will unlock new opportunities for farmers.
Steve Turetsky, Director of Agriculture Solutions at AgEagle, sees many different avenues for drone use and unique applications.
The pilot program in 2021 aims to help the company solidify its approach with that strategy at delivering the right recommendation and measurement for carbon.
The service is designed to help Landus members achieve greater profitability, sustainability, and meet the market demands of the future.
The digital ag company says it aims to create millions of carbon offsets in Canada and the U.S.
Several challenges prevent farmers from collecting and sharing data on their production practices, but there is ample opportunity to empower farmer’s digital transition.
Chris Brooks, president of Heartland Tank Services, says the technology introduction is an extension of how “we are the best in the business in the fertilizer industry.”
AGI announced it has acquired the remaining stake of Farmobile that was left after its initial $15 million investment in 2019.
If farmers are going to save the planet…you’ve got to make it less risky to do so
To complement this initial launch, later this year AgVend will complete integrations with offer management systems to give growers an easy way to submit grain offers and manage settlements through their Grower Portals.
This gives agronomists and growers a shared workflow from planning through to execution
A farmer just won the lottery—what do they buy first? In February, the Farm Journal Pulse Poll asked that question specifically about technology purchases.
This summer, farmers will start receiving the first tranche of payments via TruCarbon, the new carbon program launched by Truterra, LLC.
Sam Taylor and Stephen Nicholson, both RaboResearch analysts, say while many would call these emerging technologies ‘disruptive,’ they prefer to think of them as evolutionary elements to agriculture.
The ag sector has talked about the (broadly) unrealized potential for Big Data for years. Frankly, it’s been tiring. We’ve seen a lot of talk about its promise when the infrastructures are in place to deliver on it.
From field records to analytics, data empowers conservation and profitability.
In an interview with Lesley Stahlon from 60 Minutes over the weekend, Land O Lakes CEO Beth Ford addressed the struggles farmers are feeling.
After two years of testing its supply chain tracing technology with Bayer in the U.S. and Brazil, BlockApps says it’s ready to expand its digitization of agriculture.
Growers will have access to state aggregated, from-the-combine, harvest data in a partnership between Pro Farmer and Farmobile.
Farm Journal’s Trust In Food initiative and The Sustainability Consortium have partnered to understand farmers’ perspectives on the collection and sharing of farm-level production and management data.
This partnership aims to provide new features on the Slingshot platform for ag retailers and enterprise farmers, which includes real-time fleet information such as work, idle and transit times.
Iain Lennon at Proagrica says it’s a misconception of ag retail management to think they can’t get their individual agronomists and entire sales team to use data.
“Everyone is suspicious if the house will always win. But I don’t want to be accused of lying about my yields. And I don’t want to be audited by the input company. How will I sleep at night?”
“We need a system that we can trust—one that doesn’t just slap a cheap “sticker” on the side of a box of food.”
“We are trying to make it as easy of a decision as possible for farmers to use new technologies and try new products,” says Lance Ruppert director of agronomy marketing & technology for Growmark.
“It may be because of the continued economic challenges of ag, or maybe, just maybe we’re finally realizing precision ag has been stuck in a rut for way too long, and it’s time for a change.”
The end goal is to streamline the reporting process as part of the Multiple Peril Crop Insurance (MPCI) program.
As capabilities have grown so have the complexities of the equipment and also the expectations from the end users.
Tracy Linbo with Growers Edge says fintech tools can give farmers confidence to use new products and services.