Latest News From Equipment-Asset Tracking

Gripp co-founder Tracey Wiedmeyer discusses the startup's equipment tracking and management app and how it can help farmers and farm workers manage mixed fleets.

The integrations streamline importing of data from the AFS Connect platform of Case IH and the MyPLM Connect platform of New Holland into the Libra Cart app through the Agrimatics Cloud Service.

Norway-based crop nutrition company Yara and the Syngenta Group have entered into a partnership with agtech startup Varda, which was founded by Yara.

Razor Tracking's solutions allow for extensive operational logistics iwhich will be teamed with unmatched capabilities in FieldAlytics' digital operations tool.

AMVAC first developed the SIMPAS application system as an extension of their SmartBox technology, and now that trajectory continues with ULTIMUS. 

The latest Fendt Xaver is outfitted with Precision Planting components and plants seeds 24 hours a day, has sub-inch precision, and uses features a lightweight electric design producing zero emissions.

“I think customers and future employees are actually going to be judging us on our digital portfolio and our technology use to determine not if they want to come to work for us or if they do businesses with us.”

“DispatchTrack was able to help Centerra plan routes that allowed tanks to refill when they were two-thirds empty, resulting in fewer trips and real cost savings,” Satish Natarajan says.

Driverless solutions such as OMNiPOWER provide a solution to:  Labor constraints.  Short harvest windows.  Increased yields due to reallocation of resources. 

Yield monitors on combines. Module-building cotton pickers. Automatic row shut off on planters. Now for sprayers, will selective smart spraying systems be the next must-have productivity enablers? 

Introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show with nearly 5,000 watching the live stream introduction, John Deere introduces its full autonomy solution for tractors, which will be available to farmers later in 2022.

In social media posts, John Deere is giving a peek behind the curtain for what’s coming. 

As Mark Burns, Case IH application equipment marketing manager, explains the 50 Series was selected to unveil Case IH’s new look with an edgy and bold design—led by the aggressively styled hood.

“The John Deere Operations Center is a pivotal milestone integration to continue Razor Tracking’s rising momentum," said Eric Mauch, Managing Partner of Razor Tracking.

With versatility to be outfitted with an air boom, dry spinner-spreader and liquid systems, John Deere introduces the 800R Floater for model year 2022, which replaces the previous F4365 high-capacity nutrient applicator

The startup focuses in building retrofit systems to use its patented artificial intelligence for fully autonomous tractors. The company says its technology deploys 360° situational awareness.

The Smart Carbon program is just one example of how data will unlock new opportunities for farmers.

"You can’t afford to go cheap,” says Brian Sorbe, VP and GM Americas for Topcon. “The data derived from these systems is becoming more critical and more valuable. The data has got to be geo spatially accurate.”

If it's not already, it will be go-time for farmers across the country in just a matter of days farmers gear up for another pass at a successful crop.

After a pilot program with eight locations and 54 machines, Ceres Solutions is eyeing a full fleet tracking program as early as 2022.

The new, direct connection offers AGCO customers with active AGCO Connect subscriptions the option to subscribe to the Solinftec offering without purchasing and installing additional telemetry hardware.

Research done by Solinftec showed that U.S. ag retailers’ machines were idle 30% of the time and traveling 35% of the time. That left only 35% of the time for the machine to be operating—and generating revenue.

With this solution, ag retailers and enterprise growers can gain a holistic view of their entire operation — including support vehicles and mobile inventory. 

With this integration, CropZilla will have the entire suite of Razor Tracking’s platform available to customers to provide real-time vehicle and asset data in addition to their crop and fertilizer digital farm models.

Raven has doubled down on machine autonomy.

“Our investment in Farmobile substantially expands our technology platform and integrates automated data collection seamlessly within our IntelliFarms SureTrack platform,” said Tim Close, CEO of AGI.

It’s not just about when you are using the machine, but how the machine is being used, and what’s next for that machine.

After monitoring machine performance in the past three years, Southern States has been able to increase efficiency of its sprayers and spreaders by 8%.

Launched three years ago as a peer-to-peer equipment sharing platform, in April 2018, HarvestPort launched online crop input sales.

U.S. farmers’ incomes are set to plunge to a 12-year low, but that’s not enough to stop some from investing in new tractors and combines.

The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) recognizes the ExactApply Nozzle Control System and Expert Alerts from John Deere with two AE50 Awards for 2018.