Keylon Ghoston is Monsanto‘s Cotton Product Manager and 2016 marks 20 years of the company’s Bollgard Cotton brand. To honor this anniversary Ghoston attended the recent Mid-South Farm & Gin Show and spoke with AgWired about the history and the future of this product. Bollgard came along at just the right time in 1996. The previous year growers all along … Read More
United Suppliers Partners with SageInsights
SageInsights is a joint project between John Deere and DN2K to expand the cloud-based software program into a usable workflow platform. The result is MyAgCentral, which turns data into visible information which can be accessed from laptops, smartphones and tables and shared in real time. Now United Suppliers joins this business opportunity with ATLAS, an enhancement to the MyAgCentral … Read More
Discovery Farms Program Puts Farmers in Driver’s Seat
The Discovery Farms program was a big topic of interest at the recent Mid-South Farm & Gin Show. AgWired’s Lizzy Schultz spoke with Mike Daniels of the University of Arkansas Extension about the program. Arkansas faces many water issues, Daniels explains, from decreasing ground water levels due to irrigation to nutrient runoff into the Gulf of Mexico. The Discovery Farms … Read More
Botlink Offers First Internet-Connected Drone
Botlink has created the first Internet-connected 3DR Solo drone. Solo uses Botlink’s XRD cellular device to capture, process and deliver images to the cloud in real time. The Botlink XRD is an FCC-approved cellular device that allows users to send and receive data through a secure connection to the Verizon LTE network. The XRD includes antennas that pick up high-bandwidth … Read More
Maryland Farmers Break Cover Crop Records
Cover crops are widely hailed as an environmentally friendly way to increase soil health and reduce runoff, and Maryland has taken full advantage of their benefits by using ariel application to apply seeds while the original crop is still in the field. Maryland Soybean Board member, Hans Schmit of Schmidt Farms explains, “Applying the cover crop seeds while the original crop is … Read More
Agribotix Honored for Superior Drone & Data Platform
Agribotix LLC has been awarded the 2016 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Enabling Technology Leadership. The award is presented to Agribotix for their Enduro and Hornet agricultural drones and the FarmLens data analytics platform. These tools have been analyzed as an ideal precision agriculture solution set for increasing crop yield, improving quality and increasing efficiency and profitability. Agribotix … Read More
AgSmarts Helps the Environment & Bottom Lines
AgWired is on the ground at the Mid-South Farm & Gin Show, seeking out all the stories on the latest precision technology. Lizzy Schults had the chance to talk with AgSmarts founder and CEO, Brett Norman about his company’s environmental sensing products. AgSmarts focuses on providing producers with decision-making tools using sensors in the field that measure conditions like soil temperature, rainfall and … Read More
New Watersheds Added to NWQI Program
An allocation of $25 million by the USDA is being used to improve water quality in rivers and streams throughout the U.S. The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) will help agriculture producers in 187 watersheds integrate conservation practices to improve downstream waters through the National Water Quality Initiative (NWQI) program. “Clean water is in everyone’s interest, and the National Water Quality … Read More
AgGateway Makes Systems Communication a Reality
For growers using precision technology communication between different systems has been a major struggle. Today the Agricultural Data Applications Programming Toolkit, or ADAPT, will allow users to move between software and hardware applications without the major pain points of the past. AgGateway’s ADAPT Committee is working to with software companies to coordinate plug-ins necessary for ADAPT’s use. “This is the year … Read More
Cool Planet Supports Field to Market’s Goals
Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture, is an initiative that unites the food supply chain to define, measure and advance sustainability. Cool Planet has just joined their ranks with their advanced “green fuels” that are chemically identical to fossil fuels, and the biocarbon platform that improves soil health while decreasing greenhouse gases. “The Field to Market mission of responsible, … Read More