Producers are always looking for ways to lower their input costs, and that certainly applies to precision farm equipment. At the recent 2014 Develop with Deere conference in Kansas City, Travis Jones with LHP Telematics, a company partially owned by John Deere, told Chuck that the biggest limitation to telematics is the cost of the hardware. “The boxes just cost … Read More
Develop with Deere Attendees Find Great Networking
The recent 2014 Develop with Deere conference in Kansas City gave the company a great chance to show off some of its newest ag information tools, and attendees got some great opportunities to see new products and meet new people. “We wanted to look at some of the new stuff coming out and see if we can start working with … Read More
Relationships Develop at Deere Conference
While the recent 2014 Develop with Deere conference in Kansas City showed off a lot of John Deere’s new tools, it also gave other companies a chance to see how their products fit with Deere’s. Chuck caught up with a very busy Mike Melonis and Oleg Kotliarsky from DN2K/MyAgCentral, one of the developer companies participating in the meeting. “We’re learning … Read More
USDA: 55.3 Million Acres Irrigated
The latest government report shows that 55.3 million acres of U.S. farmland is irrigated. This news release from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) found that there were 229,237 farms making up those acres, down from 2008’s 235,715 farms. “The 2013 irrigation survey expands on the data collected about irrigation during the 2012 Census of Agriculture … Read More
Deere, AgIntegrated Work on Smart Use of Data
The challenge in precision ag these days seems to be less about how much data can be created – plenty of tools and programs to tell you everything about your operation – and more about how to create just the data needed without making farmers try to drink from some firehouse of information. One of John Deere’s partner companies definitely … Read More
Future of Ag Joins in Chorus of ‘Ditch the Rule!’
Producers who will be the future of agriculture are telling the federal government to keep an unpopular water rule from having a future of its own. This news release from Farm Bureau says the group’s Young Farmers and Ranchers Committee wants the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers to ditch the proposed Waters of the U.S. … Read More
Deere Sees AgGateway as Door to Connect Customers/Data
There’s lots of information out there when it comes to precision agriculture. Being able to connect and exchange that data was one of the topics discussed at the recent 2014 Develop with Deere conference – a get-together in Kansas City that brought together dealers, independent agricultural software application developers and John Deere staff primarily from the company’s Intelligent Solutions Group. … Read More
MyJohnDeere Tackles Wireless Data Transfer
The recent Develop with Deere conference in Kansas City brought ag nerds from across the country together to discuss the latest developments in the MyJohnDeere precision agriculture platform. Tyler Hogrefe, one of John Deere’s staff primarily from the company’s Intelligent Solutions Group who attended the gathering, told Chuck that companies want to know how MyJohnDeere will relate to the applications … Read More
MyJohnDeere Lets Other Software Bring New Data to Farming
One of the key takeaways from the 2014 Develop with Deere conference was how the company’s MyJohnDeere platform allows a host of outside software technologies bring better information to farming. “The MyJohnDeere operations center is enabling all these software companies and partners is to bring new insights into the operations center for the grower, using all their data and their … Read More
Ag180’s Software Turns Farm Data into a Commodity
Farm analytics software developer Ag180 has launched a new platform that will make a big difference in how producers view and use their farm data to make financial decisions. The company says the role out of its 2.0 version of its flagship farm analytics platform comes as Ag180 completed an intensive 12-month pilot program with a group of producers across … Read More