Smart Farming Week: March 10 - 16, 2025
Farm Journal’s Smart Farming Week is an annual week-long emphasis on innovation in agriculture. The goal is to encourage you to explore and prioritize the technology, tools and practices that will help you farm smarter.
From variable-rate and selective spraying to AI-enable prescriptions, Smart Farming is a strategy and mindset to optimize every acre. This focus simultaneously drives an understanding of return on investment and deepens the customer’s trust to produce more bushels more efficiently every crop year.
After testing thousands of varieties and a decade of trials, a new variety of winter wheat is on its way. Next season, in 2026, South Dakota producers will be able to plant SD Vivan – made with strong resistance to the state’s agronomic challenges.
Having your information compromised is a matter of when, not if, says Chris Sherman from Tech Support Farm.
With at least 95% accuracy at key estimate timings in late July and early August, Growmark’s myFS agronomy platform gives its retail advisors and farmers new insights.
The new technology is being evaluated in Farm Journal Test Plots this fall and catching a lot of farmer interest in the process. Check out our brief video showing the system at work in a central Illinois cornfield.
Lukas Koch is CEO of Kelly Hills Unmanned Systems, which spun out of an ag retail business. From bigger, faster drones that could fly farther, Koch shares more about what the future of application via drone looks like.
Survey results from University of Illinois ag economists show how farmers are making corn and soybean nutrient plans for 2026 and what current price trends are for N, P and K.
The Association of Equipment Manfacturers (AEM), in partnership with leading ag groups, has released an updated report detailing the significant benefits of precision agriculture across the United States.
Detailed daily field scans and predictive, AI-powered multispectral imaging capabilities are hitching a ride on a SpaceX rocket launch and will soon be available to field agronomists, grain and commodity traders, and even farmers.
Land O’Lakes recently announced an investment of up to $7 million in each of 10 to 15 companies focused on innovations in crop inputs, ag data, supply chain processes, business models, and beyond.
The Budweiser plant in Columbus, Ohio, has an additional demographic — 600 Holstein cows
Farm Drone News: AgEagle Multispectral Sensor, GPS Satellite Launched and Rantizo Spins Off Software
A quick roundup of recent news from the world of agricultural drones and allied industries.
Agriculture is complex, and the AgLaunch farmer network helps early-stage startups get traction
Take a quick spin around the country with three spray drone service providers as the summer crop spraying season heats up.
Find out how one leader in Congress is advocating a grounded approach to the Make American Healthy Again agenda.
With an aim to bring new tools to advance regenerative agriculture, these companies see microbiome soil tests as complements to traditional soil testing.
Are crop biologicals poised for a parabolic growth spurt? Pam Marrone, co-founder of Invasive Species Corp., dove deeper into the topic with certified crop advisers during a recent webinar hosted by the Science Societies.
The tax credit unlocks new value in your grain. But the ticket to entry is getting on-farm data ready to share
Company says RNA technology can directly target pests and potentially slash application frequency.
Pam Marrone says today’s industry supports products coming to market with a win rate no less than 80% and at least a 7% yield increase — anything else is just noise.
“This is the next step in helping ag retailers actually understand what’s happening with their customers,” said Steven Valencsin, CEO of Growers.
Despite being outside the optimum window for tar spot control, this Wisconsin field trial yielded strong results.
These space weather events can disturb the Earth’s magnetic field and at this severe level cause “more frequent and longer periods of GPS degradation.”
While relationships remain the foundation of the farmer business ecosystem, technology is bringing a new structure to how everyday business is done.
The ribbon cutting took place on March 20 for the facility focused on demonstrating new technologies at scale.
The past 15+ years have brought two developments that have changed the dynamic for farmland investment.
Your farm is generating data that’s being collected without any necessary consent
Many farmers keep a record of their planting intentions by field in a notebook or on a USB drive. Automation can make both of those practices obsolete and improve corn and soybean seed placement accuracy in the process, the companies report.
How can advisers help their growers remain viable when the economic pitfalls are out of their control? One way is to help them research each field’s yield history.
Bushel, AgVend and Taranis leaders address concerns with artificial intelligence.
Yamaha Agriculture CEO Nolan Paul talks about his outfit’s vision for its robotic technologies in the U.S.