An idea that started back when he was just an elementary school student has led a Tennessee high schooler to picking up a substantial scholarship that he says will help him further his own energy business. Caleb Brannon of Puryear, Tenn. was selected as the recipient of the 2014-2015 ASA Secure Optimal Yield (SOY) Scholarship, a $5,000 award presented to … Read More
Partnerships Big for NCGA at Commodity Classic
Members of the National Corn Growers Association are at Commodity Classic in full force this year, as part the more than 7,000+ corn, wheat, soybean and sorghum growers who have come to San Antonio. President of NCGA, Martin Barbre, a farmer from Illinois, outlined some of his group’s priorities in this coming year, including their work with a couple of … Read More
Make Plans Now for Summer’s InfoAg 2014!
Mark your calendar and make plans to attend InfoAg 2014 this summer in St. Louis! This premier precision agriculture event for producers, consultants, and the crop production industry will be held July 29-31 at St. Louis’ Union Station Hotel. Organizers are featuring four tracks of concurrent sessions with two tracks repeating to allow attendees to hear more of the presentations … Read More
MyAgCentral Offering End-to-End Irrigation Solution
Producers will now be able to monitor variable rate irrigation (VRI) remotely from their computer, tablet or smartphone. MyAgCentral is now offering the second of its new end-to-end solutions for agriculture, giving growers a simple and affordable way to leverage VRI through the MyAgCentral dashboard. DN2K [parent company of MyAgCentral] partners with Precision Cropping Technologies (PCT) as a VRI prescription … Read More
Better Model, Better Weed Resistance Predictor
A better simulation model will give producers a better predictor of when weeds will develop herbicide resistance. An article in the journal Weed Technology talks about how the model will predict when rice fields’ biggest scourge, barnyardgrass, will become resistant to two widely used herbicides – propanil and quinclorac. [The] model that can analyze the simultaneous evolution of resistance to … Read More
CruiserMaxx Beans Win No-Till Product of the Year
Our friends at Syngenta have been honored with a product that cuts down on the amount of tillage producers have to do. Their CruiserMaxx® Beans insecticide/fungicide seed treatment won No-Till Product of the Year for 2013 at last month’s 22nd annual National No-Tillage Conference in Springfield, Ill. “We are honored to have CruiserMaxx Beans recognized as the seed treatment No-Till … Read More
Superior Grain Bins Guaranteed in Wind & Snow
Headquartered in North Dakota, the folks at Superior Manufacturing sure know something about grain bins able to stand up to the rigors of wind and snow. They let us know a little bit about some of their capabilities that include bins ranging from 1,850 to more than 1 million bushels, all backed with the industry’s only lifetime warranty. While the … Read More
Vilsack to Address Commodity Classic
The growers of the Nation’s biggest crops will once again host the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture for their biggest meeting of the year. For the fifth time in a row, Tom Vilsack will deliver the keynote address to Commodity Classic, the annual convention and trade show for corn, soybean, wheat and sorghum growers. This news releases says Vilsack speaks to … Read More
MapShots Review: Happy Customers & Good Ideas
Wrapping up our coverage of the recent MapShots Customer Conference in Atlanta, Ga., where customers got the chance to see of John Deere and MapShots’ AgStudio software, which provides crop management applications for the agriculture industry. Looking back on the time filled with presentations and question-and-answer sessions, Tim Taylor with MapShots said he was excited by the number of attendees. … Read More
Easy Integration with MapShots & AgIntegrated
When it comes to choosing how to do things, people will pick easy, right? “They want it to be a simple as possible, like an Easy Button,” said Mike Santostefano, independent ag consulting company AgIntegrated‘s director of marketing and business development. While he was talking about his own company’s Onsite Ecosystem, a cloud-based, mobile and desktop app that assists with … Read More