AgGateway’s Data Privacy and Security Committee has published a white paper to help the agriculture industry consider ways to incorporate data privacy best practices and standards into their operations. The paper is also intended to provide recipients of farm data and their customers with areas to consider when using that data. The paper, which is publicly accessible at www.AgGateway.org, includes … Read More
Monsanto, Japan’s Sumitomo Collaborate on Crop Protection
Monsanto and Japan’s Sumitomo Chemical Company, Ltd. (SCC), along with SCC’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Valent U.S.A. Corporation, have agreed to extend their strategic partnership in Monsanto’s Roundup Ready PLUS® Crop Management Solutions platform for soybeans and cotton in the United States. This Monsanto news release says the platform empowers farmers to maximize the performance of their Roundup Ready crops by developing … Read More
A Blood Test for Plants
Crop Health Laboratories presented Power Growers Seminar over the weekend in Santa Clara, CA. The event provided a comprehensive introduction to plant sap analysis technology. This new nutrient management strategy was created by Sjoerd Smits, owner of NovaCropControl and HortiNova. Both companies are based out of the Netherlands and currently sap samples are shipped there for analysis. Crop Health Labs … Read More
Farmobile Will Let Farmers Sell Data
We’re living in a mobile technology society and that’s so true of farmers today. Now farmers have a new technology to look at that will allow them to take advantage of all the data they’re creating in a new way. During the Develop with Deere conference this week I met Jason Tatge, Farmobile. Here’s Jason giving me a live demonstration … Read More
Develop with Deere Underway
This morning John Deere kicked off what’s becoming an annual conference for developers. The 2014 Develop with Deere conference brings together dealers, independent agricultural software application developers and John Deere staff primarily from their Intelligent Solutions Group. Kicking things off was a keynote presentation by Pat Pinkston, Vice President, Technology and Information Solutions, Agriculture and Turf Division. Pat talked about … Read More
Environmental Impacts on Yield and Trading
With a session topic titled, “Global corn/soybean cropping and trading – how do environmental constraints impact yield and trading,” you’d think this would take a long time. However, at the Bayer CropScience 2014 Corn and Soybean Future Forum Kyle Tapley, Senior Ag Meteorologist, MDA Information Systems, got the job done in a short time frame. The focus was on weather … Read More
Talking Digitalization in Corn & Soybean Cropping
During last week’s Bayer CropScience Corn and Soybean Future Forum, Than Hartsock, John Deere, did some digital storytelling. In fact, his presentation was titled, “Digitalization – next level of corn and soybean cropping.” Than talked about how John Deere is developing new tools to deal with ways for farmers to make more money from their crop. This includes all the … Read More
AgroLiquid to Help Military, Vets on the Homefront
A Michigan-based fertilizer company is pitching in to help military folks and veterans. Agro-Culture Liquid Fertilizers is donating a portion of the proceeds from sales and shipping of every gallon of its AgroLiquid fertilizer products to Operation Home Front, a benefit program that looks to help military men, women and their families transition from military to civilian life. Agro-Culture Liquid … Read More
New Century FS is Iowa Environmental Respect Winner
A regional cooperative that is part of the GROWMARK family has picked up a major environmental award in Iowa. New Century FS of Grinnell, Iowa, was named the Environmental Respect Award winner for the state of Iowa, an award honoring agricultural retailers who excel in stewardship, education, and environmentalism within the industry and in their communities. “The Vinton facility has … Read More
Seed Trade Expo to Focus on Cutting-Edge Issues
This year’s American Seed Trade Association’s CSS 2014 & Seed Expo has been redesigned to focus on the most relevant and cutting-edge issues facing the seed industry. Organizers are inviting potential attendees to take a look at the schedule and see the topics for the Dec. 8-12 event in Chicago, Illinois, the largest seed industry conference in the country. Keynote … Read More