DuPont Pioneer is advancing 111 new Pioneer® brand corn products, featuring 32 new genetic platforms, to better meet growers’ needs now and in the future. The new group of products includes 20 new Pioneer® brand Optimum® AQUAmax® products, developed to yield in water-limited environments and now available in an expanded range of maturity zones. The Pioneer brand Optimum® AcreMax® Xtra … Read More
CruiserMaxx Beans Win No-Till Product of the Year
Our friends at Syngenta have been honored with a product that cuts down on the amount of tillage producers have to do. Their CruiserMaxx® Beans insecticide/fungicide seed treatment won No-Till Product of the Year for 2013 at last month’s 22nd annual National No-Tillage Conference in Springfield, Ill. “We are honored to have CruiserMaxx Beans recognized as the seed treatment No-Till … Read More
Superior Grain Bins Guaranteed in Wind & Snow
Headquartered in North Dakota, the folks at Superior Manufacturing sure know something about grain bins able to stand up to the rigors of wind and snow. They let us know a little bit about some of their capabilities that include bins ranging from 1,850 to more than 1 million bushels, all backed with the industry’s only lifetime warranty. While the … Read More
Vilsack to Address Commodity Classic
The growers of the Nation’s biggest crops will once again host the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture for their biggest meeting of the year. For the fifth time in a row, Tom Vilsack will deliver the keynote address to Commodity Classic, the annual convention and trade show for corn, soybean, wheat and sorghum growers. This news releases says Vilsack speaks to … Read More
MapShots Review: Happy Customers & Good Ideas
Wrapping up our coverage of the recent MapShots Customer Conference in Atlanta, Ga., where customers got the chance to see of John Deere and MapShots’ AgStudio software, which provides crop management applications for the agriculture industry. Looking back on the time filled with presentations and question-and-answer sessions, Tim Taylor with MapShots said he was excited by the number of attendees. … Read More
Easy Integration with MapShots & AgIntegrated
When it comes to choosing how to do things, people will pick easy, right? “They want it to be a simple as possible, like an Easy Button,” said Mike Santostefano, independent ag consulting company AgIntegrated‘s director of marketing and business development. While he was talking about his own company’s Onsite Ecosystem, a cloud-based, mobile and desktop app that assists with … Read More
Anthem Now Offers Greater Flexibility
FMC was talking with farmers about the new season during the 2014 National Farm Machinery Show. The announcement last December that their Anthem herbicide is now registered for soybeans adds some nice flexibility for weed control. FMC’s Nick Hustedde told me, “The Anthem registration in soybeans is really going to help allow growers to be flexible because it can be … Read More
MapShots’ Customers Show the Love
In honor of Valentine’s Day, it seems appropriate to talk about some folks who are truly showing the love for a precision ag software provider. That certainly has been the case as we’ve listened to many of the folks at the MapShots Customer Conference in Atlanta, Ga., who had nothing but great things to say about MapShots and its AgStudio … Read More
MapShots Integrates Irrigation into Precision Ag
During the recent MapShots Customer Conference in Atlanta, Ga., one of MapShots’ partners said sometimes it feels like irrigation gets left out of the equation for precision agriculture. But that’s why Andrew Willis with AgSense, a company specializing in remote management of pivots, is so glad they have partnered up with MapShots and the company’s AgStudio software. “In the past, … Read More
SatShot, MapShots Integrate for Better Imagery
As we’ve talked about this week, integration was a key theme of the recent MapShots Customer Conference in Atlanta, Ga., as the company brought in customers and the other precision agriculture providers used in its AgStudio software. Lanny Faleide, President/CEO of SatShot, a satellite and aerial imagery company, said MapShots uses the sophisticated images and the agricultural know-how that SatShots … Read More