Remember your first yield monitor, when all you did with it was watch the numbers spin wildly across your fields. Heck, even when one took the next step to map the data, few knew how to use it to make improvements. Using technology to it’s fullest extent takes time, education, practice, and a good advisor. And the technology of precision … Read More
Extreme Precision Application Needed
Precision farming technology that controls sections of your planter, sprayer and fertilizer spreader are key to the “extreme precision” needs of farmers, says Iowa grower Clay Mitchell, as reported recently in Farm Industry News. This young farmer, who avidly practices many forms of precision agriculture and blogs about it at The Mitchell Farm, is not a fan of variable-rate technologies … Read More
New GreenSeeker Precision Products To Save Fertilizer
GreenSeeker, the optical-sensing system from N-Tech that applies the right amount of Nitrogen based on plant readings from on-the-go sensors, offers several new products. The GreenSeeker RT200-4 Variable Rate Application and Mapping System uses four sensors across an applicator rig that is 60 ft. wide or smaller. Suggested list price is $18,500. The GreenSeeker RT150-3 Mapping System produces high-quality real-time … Read More
Make Plans for Agritechnica
Representatives from the world’s largest agricultural machinery exhibition were talking with farmers at the Commodity Classic in Grapevine, Texas this week about planning a visit to Hanover, Germany in November. Agritechnica, which is held every odd year, attracts 340,000 attendees from all over the world to visit more than 2000 farm machinery exhibits. This year the event is scheduled for … Read More
What Technology Worked This Year?
The buzz is all about precision…steering, strip-till, fertilizer placement. During Successful Farming magazine’s annual Crop Tech Tour, editors asked growers what technology worked in the field this year–given weather extremes that ranged from severe droughts to floods. Tom Loitz of Geneseo, Illinois, says his new strip-till system combined with row shut-offs on his planter showed strong payback when he entered … Read More
Farming and Online Socially
How many of you farmers are using social networking online? I get asked about this all the time. Of course I know you are or you wouldn’t be here on Precision.AgWired.com. Let me know if you’ve got a blog, Facebook or Twitter account and I’ll point people your way. Here’s a farmer using precision ag who’s writing online that I … Read More