Latest News From Precision Ag

“The modem, along with the G5 Universal displays and StarFire 7000 Universal receiver, provide customers with a pathway to the future of precision ag,” says Ryan Stien, marketing manager for John Deere.

The possibilities with future products and services demand connectivity says Cameron Holbrook, vice president of digital at Nutrien. 

As one of the first retailers to commercial selective spraying in their agronomic offering, Jeff Crissinger, VP of Agronomy Sales/Marketing at NuWay-K&H Cooperative shares how they are positioning this technology.

Nadav Bocher, Co-founder and CEO of Greeneye Technology, says he plans on FBN being the primary go-to-market channel for machines in just a few years. 

CES has traditionally been a show geared to consumers is one agriculture is playing a bigger role, the interest in agriculture’s story became a resounding theme, as John Deere connected consumer to farmers.

Five ST series strip-till models are available in a variety of shanks, coulters and row spacings and TruSet Active offers enhanced depth control for tillage

The touch-screen displays have Android-based operating systems and are compatible with more than 10,000 vehicle models across more than 40 brands of equipment.

More than ever, farmers’ trusted advisers need insights on precision agriculture, sustainability and product technology such as biostimulants, energy-efficient fertilizers and coatings.

The Bilberry technology has been developed as a retrofit system for sprayers to provide both green-on-green and green-on-brown applications.

Three dozen cameras evenly spaced across a 120’ boom use artificial intelligence to target and spray weeds, cutting herbicide use by up to 80% and improving weed control

AutoTrac equipped Gator utility vehicles can be used for grid sampling, spraying and field boundary creation

Reducing herbicide usage by 97% in pre-emergence and 88% in post-emergence spraying, Greeneye Technology might be the ‘next-big-thing’ in sprayer technology.

“This year, the conference will focus on solving those challenges through precision agriculture, sustainability, and products innovation,” says Corey Rosenbusch, TFI President and CEO.

While the idea that agricultural co-ops should take the lead in developing private wireless networks sounds aggressive, CoBank analysts say co-ops are in a much better position than individual farmers to do so

Dylan Barth shares the success CFS has had in building a precision ag program to cover more than 300,000 acres and be able to help growers change their agronomic decisions in light of changing ROI equations

With a territory the spans Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland, Erin Hardin covers a diverse geography, and she says the reception to new technology tools varies.

Ethan Noll shares the future of digital ag is about scaling down with sensors and autonomy. Such as an irrigation tech saving $29/acre on crop nutrition inputs.

The National Mall in Washington, D.C. will look different this week. AEM is hosting a Celebration of Modern Agriculture event to showcase the nation’s finest agricultural machinery.

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? 

Autonomy is poised to introduce new levels of productivity on the farm — and fun. 

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

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.

The company says Raines will continue to develop its strategy focusing on how to digitally enhance food quality, security and availability with real-time data. 

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.

“There are certain tasks which are more efficiently accomplished via a web interface and are less practical on a mobile device," says Patrick Sanders, director of strategic business development at Proagrica.

"Precision and autonomy are an opportunity for us, and Raven really helps put us in a very, very competitive position," Wine says.

Tamar Rosati is charged with the global strategy and business for the digital leg of Corteva Agriscience. She shares it’s up to her team to make software easy to use and indispensable to customers.

The lack of key components brings disruption at the absolute worst of times. Missing the window of opportunity to upgrade or add to technology now may very well have decades worth of repercussions.

The new AccuField puts a spotlight on the company’s three initiatives—innovate, grow, and sustain.

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

When technology tools are optimized, you can provide the ideal customer experience and maximize the business opportunities. 

Hosted Aug. 3 and 4 in St. Louis, the event is organized by The Fertilizer Institute with partners including the Agricultural Retailers Association, The Scoop, and Trust in Food.

Despite precision agriculture getting its start decades ago, the majority farmers aren’t fully using their farm data today. Just as technology has transformed agriculture, harvesting data could do the same.

Scott Wine, CEO CNH Industrial “Precision agriculture and autonomy are critical components of our strategy to help our agricultural customers reach the next level of productivity...” 

For more than 25 years, InfoAg has remained the premier conference on the practical application of precision agriculture.

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.

To support the reduction in herbicide application, the targeted spraying proof of concept will focus on real-time sensing technology to make crop protection decisions.

As it continues to develop the core technologies from its acquisitions of SmartAg and Dot, Raven announces its brand for driverless technology going forward.

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.

"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.”

The past five years have been transformational for AMVAC, says Scott Hendrix, Senior Vice President, U.S. and Canada Crop Sales and Application Technology.

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.

A John Deere Model H tractor and Model 290 planter could plant 30 acres a day. And 70 years later, today’s 24-row planter can plant more than 45 acres per hour.

“The line where the precision ag starts and the tractor stops is extremely gray. It used to be bolting on precision ag hardware, and now it’s part of what the tractor does,” says marketing manager Ryan Jardon.

This technology has the potential to redefine the application timeframe as well as level of precision of crop input products.

Undoubtedly, the term “fitness” has become engrained as part of today’s societal norms. Just as it is with personal health, the same motivation should hold true when evaluating the health of a farm

After the acquisition Proagrica plans to continue to operate CDMS as a trusted, independent data source to be used across the industry.

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.

For the past year and a half, AEM has helped spearhead a study to quantify how technology used in agriculture improves environmental stewardship including reduction in carbon, water quality, and more.