On display at the 2015 Commodity Classic was New Holland’s Flexi-Coil® P Series Air Carts. The redesigned carts have an unprecedented number of patent-pending features for all operations. Chuck met up with New Holland’s Trevor Rempel, Global Product Marketing Manager, on the trade show floor to learn more about the rather large piece of equipment. “We started with a completely … Read More
Superior Manufacturing Now Offering Heavy Bins
Superior Manufacturing is now offering heavy bins in its lineup of grain storage, handling and conditioning systems. The North Dakota-based company says the new bins have the same roofs, floors and unload systems as Superior farm bins, but the heavy bins’ sidewalls are formed with thicker steel for added strength and range from 15 to 48 feet in diameter with … Read More
PrecisionHawk & Agri-Trend Provide UAV Services
PrecisionHawk and Agri-Trend announced a partnership to offer PrecisionHawk’s leading UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) data collection, Sensing and Analysis tools to farmers across the US and Canada through the Agri-Trend SkyScout™ Program. This year, the partnership will offer UAV services throughout regions of Canada using trained individuals with the objective to roll out a full commercialization service model in 2016. … Read More
New Cert in Sustainability for Certified Crop Advisers
There is a new certification focused on sustainable agricultural practices developed by the United Soybean Board (USB), American Society of Agronomy (ASA) and the International Certified Crop Adviser (ICCA). The certification will ensure best management practices are used by the industry. “The majority of U.S. soybean farmers are using sustainable practices, but we want to continue to improve our operations,” … Read More
FarmLogs Advantage Unveiled
FarmLogs, the leading data science company that helps over 20 percent of U.S. farms maximize productivity and field profitability, unveiled FarmLogs Advantage at Commodity Classic last week. The suite of breakthrough innovations will make precision farming possible for every farmer in America. The new version of FarmLogs will offer powerful automated data collection and analysis features focused on helping farmers … Read More
Productivity, Environment Focus of International Conference
There’s a lot of different ideas on how agriculture can be done sustainably. That’s why our friends at Farm Foundation are teaming up with Global Harvest Initiative (GHI) and USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) to hold an international conference on productivity and the environment, March 11-12, 2015, in Washington, D.C. It has long been recognized that technology-based tools that help … Read More
Iteris’ ClearAg Crop Protection Beta Testing Program
Iteris, Inc., a leader in providing intelligent traffic management and weather information solutions, announced the opening of its ClearAg™ Crop Protection application programming interfaces (API) beta testing program. Chuck spoke with Bob Stern in the Iteris booth during the 2015 Commodity Classic allowing him to share more information about their next step in the evolution in our family of precision … Read More
BASF Survey Says Farmers Concerned About Risk
No doubt farming is a risky business or everyone would do it, but this year more than ever farmers are concerned about managing financial risk and worried about potential commodity price fluctuations. According to a survey of over 200 farmers, BASF Crop Protection found that farmers are very or extremely concerned about managing financial risk in the coming season, and … Read More
10th Annual Bayer CropScience Forum #AIF2015
The 10th Annual Ag Issues Forum (AIF), conducted by Bayer CropScience, is underway in advance of this year’s Commodity Classic in Phoenix. First speaker was Jim Blome, President/CEO, Bayer CropScience LP, who talked a little bit about his farm background and challenged attendees to get local though leaders out on a farm to help them better understand where their food … Read More
Farmall 100A Series Meets Needs of All Customers
If you walked through the Case IH booth at the National Farm Machinery Show last week you were bound to see their line of Farmall 100A tractors. Denny Stroo, Case IH, was on hand to share his knowledge of the esteemed tractor and Chuck was there to capture it. “This particular Farmall is a 140A, which is part of the … Read More