Kinze® Manufacturing, Inc. announces a partnership with Raven Industries to develop a standalone monitor solution for the Kinze 4900 series planter. With this new monitor, Kinze and Raven have partnered to develop the software and its integration with the planter, with the goal of eliminating reliance on ISOBUS and other manufacturers’ software. “Offering our own monitor will make for a … Read More
New Holland CR Combines Unveiled
New Holland held a press conference yesterday in Berlin, Germany via Twitter primarily using the #NHharvest2014 hashtag. It was mostly about the new CR Series combines topped by the CR 10.90. Presenting was Carlo Lambro Brand, President. Here are a few of the tweets as examples: Award-winning Cursor 16 engine developed by #FPTIndustrial that powers the new CR 10.90 #NHharvest2014 … Read More
Follow New Holland Press Conference on Twitter
It looks like New Holland will be live tweeting a press conference today in Berlin, Germany. The graphic says it will be Unconventional / Unprecedented / Unmissable. Here’s their latest tweet with hashtags. If I calculate right it will start at 11:30am central time. Live Tweet of our Press Conference #EnteraNewHarvestingdimension starting at 6.30 pm (GMT+2) today! Don’t miss it! … Read More
AgGateway Releases Agricultural Glossary
AgGateway is introducing a comprehensive agricultural glossary that can be freely accessed and used by the industry to facilitate accurate communications. The glossary is a one-stop location in the form of an online wiki for agriculture terms, definitions, acronyms, key words and synonyms. The glossary pulls from a number of established industry sources and includes government definitions for key terms, … Read More
New Features to DirectCommand Application Management
Ag Leader Technology has announced the addition of new features to its DirectCommand™ application management system. This update is part of a recent firmware upgrade – version 5.4 – to the Ag Leader® Integra and Versa™ displays. Among the new features with the 5.4 firmware is Product Templates. Product Templates are a significant improvement to product mix/blend functionality, providing easy … Read More
Customer Service Is A Way of Life For MapShots
Good customer service is a rare commodity these days. You read countless articles touting the “no-customer service” from cable tv companies or large banks. That’s not the case with MapShots, Inc. a leading agricultural data management software company. MapShots boasts a customer service department staffed with trained professionals with agricultural backgrounds that will solve your problems as fast as they … Read More
Syngenta & QCCP Talk Cellulosic at Iowa Speedway
Our Joanna Schroeder covered last week’s NASCAR racing activities at Iowa Speedway. Here’s one of her stories on the Saturday race sponsor: Syngenta and Quad County Corn Processors (QCCP) are collaborating to produce cellulosic ethanol from corn kernels as well as to license the technology to other ethanol plants. The first-of-its-kind technology is known as Adding Cellulosic Ethanol (ACE Project) … Read More
LI-COR Helps Measure Leaf Area Index
There is a some unique new technology from LI-COR that makes it possible to do leaf area index measurements (LAI) in all uniform sky conditions. This greatly increases efficiency and provides more accurate information on crop productivity. LI-COR Biosciences announces the LAI-2200C Plant Canopy Analyzer, a non-destructive way to easily and accurately measure leaf area index. Previous technology in the … Read More
iCropTrak Version 5 on Display at InfoAg
In the next few weeks leading up to the InfoAg Conference in St. Louis, MO, we’ll be featuring interviews with some of our sponsors to give you a preview of what they’ll have on display. So, I thought I’d start with the sponsor of the AgWired App, iCropTrak. Aaron Hutchinson talked with me about their introduction of Version 5 of … Read More
Beautiful Wx for Precision Aerial Ag Show
You especially like to have good weather when you’re holding an air show! In this case it’s the Precision Aerial Ag Show taking place at the Farm Progress Show site in Illinois. Check out the flight schedule that’s going on. I was really hoping to have a chance to attend this event. It has “AgNerd” written all over it. But … Read More