Missouri Farm Bureau President Blake Hurst and Nebraska Farm Bureau president Steve Nelson provided legislative update at the 71st National Association of Farm Broadcasting’s annual convention. The ag leaders reviewed the current direction of the United States agricultural issues and policy on the local, state and national level. The two first addressed their assessment on the recent midterm elections and … Read More
Hick Chick Chat: John Deere Green Fever
This week’s Hick Chick Chat comes from the Trade Talk floor of the National Association of Farm Broadcasting’s 71st Annual Meeting in Kansas City. I caught up with my friends at John Deere. Beverly Flores, the Integrated Communications Manager with John Deere talks about some of the new data management opportunities coming in 2015 for producers. Beverly says there’s a … Read More
FMC Offering Year-Long Management
The FMC Agricultural Crop Protection portfolio has grown to now offer farmers a complete year-long management approach. Describing this to me during the National Association of Farm Broadcasting convention this week was Gail Stratman, Regional Technical Sales Lead. He says, “That has been a focus for us, to offer growers more of a complete solution.” Going in to 2015 he … Read More
Big Data Privacy Agreement
A coalition of major farm organizations and agriculture technology providers today announced an agreement on data privacy and security principles. The agreement was designed to encourage producers to use the full range of innovative, technology-driven tools and services to boost productivity, efficiency and profitability of agriculture with more assurance that personal data will be protected. The organizations and companies that … Read More
Deere Partners Look to Lower Costs, Raise Integrations
Producers are always looking for ways to lower their input costs, and that certainly applies to precision farm equipment. At the recent 2014 Develop with Deere conference in Kansas City, Travis Jones with LHP Telematics, a company partially owned by John Deere, told Chuck that the biggest limitation to telematics is the cost of the hardware. “The boxes just cost … Read More
Develop with Deere Attendees Find Great Networking
The recent 2014 Develop with Deere conference in Kansas City gave the company a great chance to show off some of its newest ag information tools, and attendees got some great opportunities to see new products and meet new people. “We wanted to look at some of the new stuff coming out and see if we can start working with … Read More
Relationships Develop at Deere Conference
While the recent 2014 Develop with Deere conference in Kansas City showed off a lot of John Deere’s new tools, it also gave other companies a chance to see how their products fit with Deere’s. Chuck caught up with a very busy Mike Melonis and Oleg Kotliarsky from DN2K/MyAgCentral, one of the developer companies participating in the meeting. “We’re learning … Read More
Deere, AgIntegrated Work on Smart Use of Data
The challenge in precision ag these days seems to be less about how much data can be created – plenty of tools and programs to tell you everything about your operation – and more about how to create just the data needed without making farmers try to drink from some firehouse of information. One of John Deere’s partner companies definitely … Read More
Deere Sees AgGateway as Door to Connect Customers/Data
There’s lots of information out there when it comes to precision agriculture. Being able to connect and exchange that data was one of the topics discussed at the recent 2014 Develop with Deere conference – a get-together in Kansas City that brought together dealers, independent agricultural software application developers and John Deere staff primarily from the company’s Intelligent Solutions Group. … Read More
Meet the New USFRA Faces of Farming
At the National Association of Farm Broadcasting (NAFB) convention on Wednesday, the U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance (USFRA®) announced the winners of its second class of the Faces of Farming and Ranching program. The new “Faces” are (pictured left to right) Thomas Titus of Illinois, Jay Hill of New Mexico, Erin Brenneman of Iowa, Carla Wardin of Michigan, and Darrell … Read More