I have spent a great afternoon visiting with my friends at Ag Leader Technology, Ames, IA, sponsors of Precision.AgWired.com.com. It is the 20 year anniversary of the founding of the company by Al Myers. In fact, I’ll have a conversation with Al to share with you soon. He’s got a fascinating story. Precision agriculture is an expanding business as more … Read More
Raven Innovation Summit
Raven Industries is holding an Innovation Summit this week at company headquarters in Sioux Falls, SD. Cindy is there and will be sharing some of what’s new with Raven this week. I spoke with Denton Schwiesow (not pictured), U.S. Sales Mgr., during the International Conference on Precision Agriculture about the event. Denton says the company will bring in their distribution … Read More
2012 PrecisonAg Awards of Excellence Winners
The recipients of the 2012 PrecisionAg Awards of Excellence were honored during the International Conference on Precision Agriculture. Thanks to Paul Schrimpf, group editor of the CropLife Media Group, for the photo since I could not stay for the luncheon at which the awards were presented. Pictured are the award winners with Elliott Nowels (l), Director of the PrecisionAg Institute, … Read More
FarmSight on International Stage
Attendees at the International Conference on Precision Agriculture got the full overview of the John Deere FarmSight strategy from Mark Stelford who does Solutions Marketing in the Intelligent Solutions Group. I visited with Mark afterward. Mark says that when you look at some of the megatrends in agriculture and outside the industry like demand for food, fiber and fuel between … Read More
Nutrient Management Options Growing
Keynote speaker Dr. Newell Kitchen, USDA-ARS, had a unique title to his presentation, “From Poking Holes to Precision Sensing: Options Growing for Nutrient Management.” He wanted to be clear that the options available to farmers today for managing nutrients are growing. He started out with a historical perspective on what has taken place in this area in recent years. One … Read More
What’s Still Needed For Remote Sensing
The first of the two keynote speakers at the International Conference on Precision Agriculture is Dr. David Mulla, University of Minnesota. Dr. Mulla is a past chair of the conference btw. His topic was “Key Advances and Remaining Knowledge Gaps in Remote Sensing for Precision Agriculture.” So he talked about what we know and what we don’t know. It’s clear … Read More
Previewing the International Conference on Precision Agriculture
There are precision agriculture enthusiasts from 45 countries attending the 11th International Conference on Precision Agriculture. This conference is held every two years and is taking place in Indianapolis, IN. To learn about what’s new for this year’s conference I spoke with Dr. Rajiv Khosla, Colorado State University, who is the President of the International Society of Precision Agriculture (ISPA), … Read More
John Deere Mobile Farm Manager App
Tyler Hogrefe, seen here being interviewed by Ken Anderson, Brownfield Ag News, is a Product Manager for John Deere in their Intelligent Solutions Group. He was a presenter at their FarmSight Tech Summit. I spoke to him about John Deere Mobile Farm Manager. Tyler says the need for more data is increasing and it is very useful in the office … Read More
Mobile Weather from John Deere
Mobile weather sounds like it would be a high priority for farmers today. John Deere unveiled their version of it at the FarmSight Tech Summit. I visited with Janae Tapper, Product Manager in the John Deere Intelligent Solutions Group about the product. For private and commercial applicators who need precise weather information in order to make proper product application and … Read More
The Pillars of John Deere FarmSight
When it comes to FarmSight, Jerry Roell has the insight. He’s John Deere’s Director, FarmSight, Intelligent Solutions Group. Jerry says they began developing FarmSight about two years ago looking at three areas. The first of these is machine optimization and trying to figure out how to make machines more efficient, more productive and to monitor machine help. The second area … Read More