Kaleb Lindquist, Ag Leader software specialist, recently joined ZimmComm’s Cindy Zimmerman at the National Farm Machinery Show to talk about water management. “SMS Advanced from Ag Leader allows for directional flow arrows, elevation, slope, water shed mapping and printing,” says Lindquist. “There’s also a water management module that can create a tile plan so growers know if it will be … Read More
Get Crop Insurance Help with Ag Leader SMS
Crop insurance is playing a bigger role than ever in agriculture with passage of the new farm bill and Ag Leader SMS Software is one way to make the record keeping required for crop insurance a little bit easier. Rural Community Insurance Services (RCIS) recently announced it has partnered with Ag Leader on the use of SMS software to submit … Read More
Water Management … An Ongoing Issue
Today with input costs and costs of fertilizer and seed being as high as they are when you don’t get the crop planted and a good emerged crop with a good stand to it, you don’t get the max benefits out of the crop that you can. Too much water is a big proponent of this as well as not … Read More
Managing Varying Soil Types
Growers in many states have spent the winter months in drought conditions, and there’s non way to tell what Mother Nature has in store for the spring planting season. If we get rains like 2013, what if there was a way to improve your changes for a better harvest despite too much soil moisture? Well, there is a way to … Read More
Ag Leader Helping Farmers Prepare for Planting
With the winter we have had this year, everyone is looking forward to spring – especially farmers who are anxious to get that next crop in the ground this time of year. That’s why this is the perfect time of year for the National Farm Machinery Show and Ag Leader Technology is happy to be talking with the thousands of … Read More
Getting Started at National Farm Machinery Show
We’re boots on the ground in Louisville, KY for the 2014 National Farm Machinery Show. There are a number of new product announcements that will be made here and we’ll bring you all the stories we can find starting tomorrow morning. If you’re here or even if you’re not you can get the free app for whatever device you’re using. … Read More
Ag Leader Wants You to Know About the Value of Data
Why should we care about data I asked Tyler Anderson with Ag Leader during the 2014 Iowa Power Farming Show. Anderson said we should care about data. So I asked the next logical question, “How do we know if it worked?”. “We can check to make sure the data worked by reading the information we’ve recorded out in the field … Read More
Ag Leader’s Luke Bunkers on Water Management
Water management. An ongoing issue for growers across the country and around the world. To learn more about some of the big water management issues in agriculture, I turned to Luke Bunkers with Ag Leader who spent some time with me during the 2014 Iowa Power Farming Show. Today with input costs and costs of fertilizer and seed being as … Read More
Entry-Level Display from Ag Leader
ZimmComm’s Joanna Schroeder recently caught up with Ag Leader’s Josh Rasmusson about the Compass display, a simple and affordable precision farming display that offers guidance and virtual terminal capabilities. Learn more about this new product offering which was just launched in November 2013 in Joanna’s full interview with Josh. [wpaudio url=”http://agwired.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/iowapower-rasmusson-14.mp3″ text=”Listen to Rasmusson explain”] Become a fan of Ag … Read More
Head to the Clouds with Ag Leader’s AgFiniti
The big trend in the data world these days is the “cloud”. The cloud is a way to store your data in a safe, secure place and have access to it anywhere you may be. Ag Leader recently headed to the “clouds” with their new AgFiniti precision technology and to learn more, I spoke with Kaleb Lindquist during the 2014 … Read More