Latest News From Field Monitoring

Agtrinsic has expanded for the 2024 growing season to create a contiguous disease monitoring network from border to border in Illinois and Iowa as well as in parts of Missouri, Kentucky, Indiana and Wisconsin.

A farm kid from Kansas is bringing a new robotic weeding concept to market and he’s got big dreams for the future of crop protection.

InnerPlant is developing early-stress signaling capabilities in soybeans and corn. The concept is getting serious buy-in from big players in U.S. agriculture.

The Prescriptive Pathogen Report uses predictive soil analysis to predict the field pressure and economic risk of corn rootworm in the upcoming growing season.

Here are examples of how Star of The West has built connections and expanded opportunities for farmers. 

“No other company can offer such integrated testing to predict what risks farmers face in the coming growing season,” Danielle Watts, vice president of data, said.

This fall, the company has unveiled three products that meet farmers where they are on their path and help them with the next level of adoption.

Products from John Deere, Soiltech and EarthOptics can help growers learn more about their fields while reducing input and operating costs.

“By combining our imagery and data analytics with NVision Ag’s proprietary nitrogen management technology, we will expand our in-season offering in nitrogen management...” said Tim Hassinger, CEO and President

Today, the company has announced a partnership with Mertec, an Iowa-based breeder and developer of soybean germplasm for the seed trade.

The acquisition of Aker Technologies allows Intelinair to expand with additional drone-based digital agronomy tools and complements Intelinair’s portfolio of providing high-resolution imagery and data analytics.

See & Spray Premium is available for John Deere MY 2018 and newer self-propelled sprayers in the U.S. with factory-installed ExactApply System/ ExactApply Performance Upgrade Kit, steel boom and 15” or 20” spacings

As of January 2022 there were over 1,000 satellites in orbit that fall into the category of Earth observation.

Its current user base includes more than 100 ag retailers and consultants who use Taranis to deliver crop intelligence insights empowering more informed decision making to help make crop management more efficient

The company branches out to provide crop consultants with a suite of tools: soil testing software, in-field automation and on-site soil analysis

“You can take a $3 million salesman and make them a $5 million salesman,” Zach Worden says.

With his more than 37 years of agribusiness experience, Tim Hassinger says momentum is in the favor of the tech company as it expands its footprint and capabilities.

The FBN-assigned machine is in addition to the four of the systems (installed on four brands of sprayers) in operation in the U.S. Midwest.

According to Brett Bruggeman, president of WinField United, the opportunities around carbon markets are bringing a stratification in the ag retail business.

The arrival of a precision, pellet-slinging, automated rover may provide almond growers with a cutting-edge NOW control weapon. Welcome to the age of robotic mummy removal.

In 2020 field trials, the Greeneye Technology Selective Spraying System reduced herbicide use by 78% on average, with some farmers seeing a reduction of 90% or greater.

The 10 Row Crop Challenge startups were chosen by a panel of farmers that selected innovations based on their potential to address key problems in U.S. row crop agriculture.

Analyst of the ag retail business Shane Thomas joins the podcast to talk about his latest insights including the three reasons why drones are having a second coming in agriculture.

The future is here, and for the future of agriculture, it is not a moment too soon.

Semios CEO Michael Gilbert says the company is aiming to deliver a single login for centralized crop management data into one, easy-to-use, end-to-end solution.

Sporando early alert system is helping farmers optimize their use of fungicides.

On The Scoop podcast, Joel Wipperfurth the Director of Business Operations and Retail Execution at Winfield United, shares the biggest vulnerability in agriculture is stranded data.

“Today’s acquisition is a testament to our commitment to make the farm more efficient and increase productivity while dramatically improving sustainability,” said Valmont President and CEO Stephen G. Kaniewski.

The technology detects a growing plant and selectively sprays a targeted application at 12 mph.

A farm-centric innovation model has been the focus of the AgLaunch and Farm Journal Row Crop Challenge to aide early-stage agtech startups to solve on-farm problems.

At his business, ForeFront Ag Solutions, Erich Eller is taking particular steps in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

"After this year there's probably a situation now where we can use this technology to push our planting window just a little bit into more marginal conditions," says Ken Ferrie.

“Growers are dealing so many companies with very little coordination between the companies. The industry is going through a phase where we should expect to see some consolidations,” says John Vikupitz.

“The 2018 Farm Bill changed the status of hemp for everyone,” FieldWatch CEO Stephanie Regagnon says.

The soil testing process is ripe for improvements.

While the partnership was first deployed in Brazil this year, it will be launched in the U.S. for the 2020 crop year.

“It’s all about helping the grower meet his goals, be better off economically and manage inputs for the maximum economic return,” says Dave Green, who is a territory manager for Servi-Tech.

“For us, the biggest benefit will be getting an early look at these emerging products. For the startup, we are able to give them real-world testing and farmer feedback.”

The company has a fleet of more than 100 drones and airplanes, and its sensors can capture clean usable images at 35 mph with a drone or 100 mph with a plane.

Based in Tel Aviv, Israel, Prospera has developed data analytics and computer vision technology that can be applied to every pass the irrigation pivot makes

Veris Technologies has introduced the world's first real-time sensor suite that measures four critical soil features while planting or tilling.

Farmer Core leverages the new AutoSync feature, which automatically syncs guidance lines, field names, boundaries, landmarks and operator information across Trimble Ag Software and Trimble displays using the Precision-IQ field application.

The Nutrien Ag Solutions digital platform will fully integrate with FieldNet Advisor for remote irrigation monitoring and control.

Right now, Land O’ Lakes Sustain is onboarding more than 20 ag retailers into the Truterra Insights Engine

After these years of experience, the cooperative is now expanding its use of Adapt-N across its Precision Advantage, Crop-Trak and Nutri-Track platforms.

This blog could also be titled “When bad things happen to good people.”

A technology startup based in Oakland, California is using artificial intelligence to tell a potato farmer if fields are getting too much or too little water.

Illinois retailers have already embraced the IFCA and Agrible platform as part of their voluntary compliance.

AgMRI, the company’s flagship product, is a field health monitoring and early-warning system. The

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