Michigan agricultural leaders held a conference call Thursday morning to discuss algae bloom issues and proactive water quality efforts being undertaken by producers in the state. “Michigan agriculture is proactive and part of the solution when it comes to water quality issues in the Western Basin of Lake Erie and surrounding areas,” said Jim Byrum, president of the Michigan Agri-Business … Read More
Data Management and MyJohnDeere
Big Data is the buzz word in the precision farming world these days and managing that data is all important. Laura Donaldson with John Deere‘s Intelligent Solutions Group says they have a set of data principles to guide them in the data management space. “Those data principles are value, transparency and control, and those three words tie directly in to … Read More
Big Smart New Holland CR10.90 Combine
Introducing the first and only New Holland CR10.90 combine in North America. For the moment anyway. This bad boy will be on display at shows like Farm Progress. It is a monster of a machine. This one was on display for ag media last week with a draper head. Telling us all about it is Nigel Mackenzie and he gets … Read More
The Freedom of FarmLogs
When we first talked with FarmLogs co-founder and CEO Jesse Vollmar at the 2013 Iowa Power Farming Show, they were just kicking off this data information and management product, but they have come a long way. “We’ve done a number of things,” said Vollmar at the InfoAg Conference last week. “One, we’ve made the product entirely free…we love being able … Read More
Crop IMS Talks Value of People and Relationships at InfoAg
There’s probably a lot of money wrapped up in all the high-tech equipment you might have on your farm today: whether it’s GPS systems or large tractors or computer software to help you make the right decisions at the right time. But bigger than the cost of that equipment is the value it brings to your operation. Adding value to … Read More
GEOSYS Promotes Strategy for Remote Sensing
Whether you’re the captain of the football team or a captain of industry… or just captaining your own ship of a farm… one of the keys to success is to have a strategy for that success. At the recent InfoAg Conference in St. Louis, Senior U.S. Account Manager for GEOSYS David Scott did a presentation called Building Your Remote Sensing … Read More
Illinois Nutrient Loss Reduction Strategy
This is the first of a four part series on Nutrient Management sponsored by FS/GROWMARK In March of 2013, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency hosted a meeting of stakeholders to announce the beginning of a statewide Nutrient Reduction Strategy. Marcia Willhite, chief of the Illinois EPA Bureau of Water, says the first step in implementing this strategy was to get … Read More
Ag Leader AgFiniti at InfoAg
Most attendees at the InfoAg 2014 Conference had their heads in the clouds and one of those clouds belongs to Ag Leader Technology. Ag Leader’s cloud-based platform AgFiniti was introduced at Farm Progress Show last year and Kaleb Lindquist says there was a lot of buzz about it at InfoAg. “It’s wireless data transfer and remote support functionality,” said Lindquist. … Read More
John Deere Intelligent Solutions Include Partners
One of the great aspects of the InfoAg Conference is company-to-company communications and partnerships for the benefit of farmers. We talked with Kevin Krieg, John Deere Intelligent Solutions Group Product Line Manager, about how important it is to work with other companies. “It’s one of the biggest roadblocks to being able to get more adoption of precision technologies – the … Read More
Details on SatShot Iteris Partnership
While we were at the InfoAg Conference last week, Iteris and SatShot announced a new partnership to help farmers manage their crops even better. I got more details on the news from SatShot president Lanny Faleide. “Iteris has whole suite of weather products, and we are bringing the weather information along with the digital vegetation signature from the [satellite] imagery, … Read More