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 being in the market alongside each other for four years, Truterra will begin offering Indigo Ag carbon programs, and Indigo Ag science will back Truterra’s carbon measurement.
The Andersons is introducing Aero-Blitz and Aero-Mino, which have been designed for application at low-use rates.
A roundup of news for the week of October 27, 2024.
Elon Musk wants his futuristic Optimus robots to clean dishes and scrub carpets. But what if you wanted one of those creepy looking things working in your fields?
Take a look behind the curtain at the company’s work to advance formulation science and the digital experience.
A recently announced partnership with Syngenta and Taranis will bring a proof of concept at scale.
Companies are rolling out autonomous capabilities today with the goal of eventual full autonomy in the future.
Co-founder and CEO of AgVend Alexander Reichert shares how ag retailers are looking to digitally enable not just the customer experience, but also have best in class tools for their sales, marketing, finance, and procurement.
Particularly, Syngenta will extend a unique offer focused in the Midwest to support targeted retailers’ adoption of Taranis’ AI-powered tools.
Mitchell Hora of Continuum Ag joins the Top Producer podcast to share why he believes taking advantage of these credits will be the biggest opportunity in agriculture.
Fred Below, University of Illinois professor of crop physiology, says short-stature corn could provide growers a leg up in extreme weather conditions.
“We can move so much faster. By our estimates, less than 2% of farmers are participating in these programs industry wide,” Truterra president Jamie Leifker says.
“Our goal is simple: use traits to help plants grow deeper roots,” says Cquesta CEO Michael Ott.
Wendy Mosher, CEO at New West Genetics and vice president of Hemp Feed Coalition, says this is something that has been in the works for at least four years
Despite nearly 24 inches of snow, below-zero temperatures and raging winds that some people are affectionately calling “Death Storm #2,” Illinois livestock producers are finding ways to overcome the horrific conditions.
Brian Geerlings recently bought a used sprayer and upgraded it with a See & Spray kit. He says weed control can cost $20 to $30 per acre, so being able to see and only spray weeds delivers a big savings.
Dealers are running a promotion to unlock smart spraying technology for more customers for a limited time this fall.
To help meet growing demand, equipment financing and automation enhance productivity and reliability, increase performance and reduce operating costs.
This new AI revolution uses things such as soil, climate and genetic data to anticipate outcomes and turn that information into actionable insights.
The newly formed company will offer high-resolution data on soil properties, pest detection, variable rate fertilization, and tillage prescriptions.
Here’s how double cropping and relay cropping could affect your coverage
Leaders says the goal is to improve how ag retail teams share agronomic insights, drive strategic recommendations, and help their farmer customers with the management of their operations.
Using AI as an assistant to answer questions has the potential to increase your impact, but to get there, you must separate potential from unrealistic promises. Here are two ways to experiment with AI on your farm.
What if you could transform a task that used to half of your day to just a few minutes?
Tips for retailers to help shape effective conservation conversations at the farm-gate
Planting cover crops is one of the many ways growers can implement conservation practices on the farm, but planting them aerially may provide additional benefits.
Catch up on recent headlines in the ag retail industry.
Gradable has more than 20,000 farmers users totaling 12 million acres and has facilitated more than $30 million in financial incentives for sustainable/regenerative practices every year.
John Deere will acquire dozens of patents and a technology suite to support development of its See and Spray platform.
Soil Scientist Outlines New Soil Health Focus for Company