Living out in the country, I don’t have the luxury of just running to the grocery store around the corner if I find myself in the middle of a recipe, missing ingredients. The closest grocery store is 10 miles away and it’s no bigger than my kitchen. The next store of any size is 25 miles away and it’s still … Read More
Walk Before You Run
Uses for precision ag vary from west to east coast, state to state and even from field to field. And farmers can oftentimes learn from growers in other regions, take pieces and parts from those experiences and implement it on their own operation to see what fits best. Today, we’re talking with Mike Houghtaling, owner/president of PC Ag Solutions in … Read More
Announcing Precision Ag 2.0
Announcing Precision Ag 2.0: The Next Generation – a trade show Feb. 22-23 in Calgary, Alberta. As GPS and GIS is now everywhere, the next level is to understand how we can use this technology to make a profit and grow the industry. Topics covered will include increased profitability and sustainability, protecting the environment, optimizing your use of agricultural inputs, … Read More
Using SMS Basic Software for Harvest Mapping and Analysis
Whether it is data from planting, fertilizing, spraying, harvest or guidance, SMS software from Ag Leader houses and organizes data for easy access. And this ability to gather and analyze data could come in handy this harvest season. Jessica Ahrens, Ag Leader Software Support Specialist, tells growers what kind of data SMS will gather. [wpaudio url=”http://precision.agwired.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2011/09/JessicaSMS1.mp3″ text=”Listen to Ahrens explain”] … Read More
Awards for Agritechnica 2011
This year’s Agritechnica will be bigger than ever and this is also reflected in the number of innovations presented. With over 2600 exhibitors from 48 countries in 24 halls, Agritechnica 2011 promises a huge display of innovations. From among the over 300 innovations presented, an impartial commission of experts appointed by the DLG and judging on the basis of stringent … Read More
Trimble to Deliver CenterPoint RTX Correction Service to Farmers in Australia
Trimble announced that its high-accuracy CenterPoint™ RTX™ correction service is now available for farmers in Australia. The GPS- and GLONASS-enabled correction service is delivered via cellular communications. Trimble CenterPoint RTX can deliver better than 4 centimeter (1.5 inch) accuracies in real time without the use of traditional reference station RTK infrastructure. The initial coverage area for CenterPoint RTX offers a … Read More
Topcon Enters Cooperative Agreement with SAME
Topcon Precision Agriculture (TPA) has announced an agreement with SAME DEUTZ-FAHR (SDF), to produce a new product line for SDF dedicated to precision agriculture. The agreement provides for cooperation between Topcon and SDF’s engineering department to develop state-of-the-art precision farming products. The products will be designed for SDF tractors and combine harvesters and marketed with the brand Agrosky™ via SDF’s … Read More
Preparing for Harvest 2011
It’s that time of year again and growers are beginning to pull combines out of the shed to begin preparing for harvest. Making sure your yield monitor is ready should be a step in this important process as yield data is essential to precision agriculture; the data can be used to create variable rate prescriptions, identify spots where tiling may … Read More
Dave Stamp Joins E4 Crop Intelligence
Dave Stamp, a veteran of the seed industry has joined E4 Crop Intelligence in a leadership role, announces Greg Reisz, E4 President. Stamp resigned from Channel Bio where he was Central Region Business Director. Prior roles included sales manager for Midwest Seed Genetics, NC Plus Hybrids and Wilson Seeds.
They Thought I Was Crazy.
I sat down at the lunch table one Monday noon (when I was 33 years old, not 12), pulled out my ground meat (not PB&J) and the “kids” at my table thought I was crazy. Ground meat? I guess to them it looked slimy and unfit for human consumption, but I on the other hand was looking forward to a … Read More