Billed as the true next generation agricultural information product, CropForecaster service combines satellite imagery with biomass and leaf area variables. It can produce daily imagery that tracks and predicts crop development and growth from planting to harvest. CropForecaster is the combined work of ZedX, a Pennsylvania-based leading developer of internet agricultural decision support services, and France-based Infoterra, a subsidiary of … Read More
Precision Farming Data Will Pay
The early pioneers of precision agriculture technology were often frustrated–not unlike the initial stages of any technology. The data gathered could produce impressive yield maps, but the knowledge base to glean better management decisions from them was lacking. Today, those pioneering growers have a treasure trove of data that can possibly be manipulated into zones–leading to improved management decisions. Corn … Read More
The Future of Automated Crop Production
An autonomous gardener robot that uses sensors and computers to water, fertilize and harvest fruits and vegetables is under development by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) students of computer science and artificial intelligence labs (CSAIL). While the long-term goal of this specific research project is to develop such automation for greenhouses, imagine the uses for monitoring fields of grain. … Read More
Are You Using Your Precision Farming Data?
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 Map & Guidance Display from Leica
Get accurate real-time visual display of every field application with the new iNEX Maping & Guidance Display from Leica Geosystems. This large touch-screen display works with the Leica mojoRTK auto-steer system, or can be used as stand-alone guidance system with most GPS receivers. The display comes with field data management software to store multiple vehicle setups. It records data from … 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
Farmers Win Precision Ag Technology at Commodity Classic
Hats off to PrecisionAg magazine and its owner, Meister Media Worldwide, for giving away precision farming equipment to growers for the past 14 years! The following lucky growers will soon be putting these new precision tools to work–which they won at the recent Commodity Classic in Grapevine, TX. David Farmer, D.F. Ranches, El Nido, CA – InSight Display from Ag Leader. … Read More
Innovation Awards For New Holland At SIMA
New Holland Agriculture captured a gold and silver medal for the company’s impressive NH2 hydrogen-powered tractor and the advanced EasyDrive transmission innovations at the recent SIMA Farm Show, held every two years in Paris, France. New Holland’s Energy Independent Farm and NH2 tractor concept offers farmers autonomous future. The Energy Independent Farm concept has far-reaching benefits for its customers, allowing them to … Read More
Educate The Public On Precision Farming Values
Hats off to Adrian, Michigan Daily Telegram for helping the general public grasp how satellite-based GPS systems help farmers. And kudos to Tom Van Wagner, the local district USDA-NRCS conservationist, and to local growers for highlighting results from precision farming. As Van Wagner was quoted…“Agriculture is big business,” he said. “We sometimes read about agriculture and how (farmers) are polluting and … Read More