Holiday season is rapidly approaching with just a few short weeks from Thanksgiving and only 55 days until Christmas. We oftentimes forget about what it takes to get the food to our table. In this Precision.AgWired.com Podcast, sponsored by Ag Leader Technology we sit down with Trenton Beemis, a Wisconsin cranberry farmer and recently the National FFA Organizations Proficiency Award winner … Read More
Ag Leader Releases SMS Version 11.5
Ag Leader Technology recently released Version 11.5 of the SMS Desktop Software, which offers many new features and benefits to help improve the operation and interface of the software. Whether it is data from planting, fertilizing, spraying, harvest or guidance, SMS houses and organizes the data for easy access. Ag Leader has also released Mobile SMS Version 5.5. Luke James, … Read More
FS PARTNERS Uses QR Codes in the Field
Let’s say you’re driving down the road and you see an obvious test plot with some pretty darn good looking corn and you want to know why it looks so much better than yours. Chances are you never really have gotten the answer to what varieties or practices the grower might be testing that you could try yourself. What if … Read More
LightSquared Wireless Broadband – A Detriment to Rural America?
Rick Greene, Precision Agronomy Manager for MFA Incorporated in Columbia, Mo., an Ag Leader Blue Delta Dealer, recently spoke at a Congressional Hearing in Washington, D.C. about preserving the integrity of GPS systems. In his testimony, Greene said, “I began my precision agriculture journey in 1995 when my father purchased one of the first yield monitoring systems with GPS. While … Read More
Fall Nitrogen Management
As farmers finish the harvest this season and begin to prepare fields for next year, it is important that they look at nitrogen management with a systems approach, according to GROWMARK Agronomy Services Manager Dr. Howard Brown. “If we look at how the crop grows, we have to keep in mind nutrition and so putting all the nitrogen on at … Read More
Talking Precision at Farm Progress Show
Here’s my last Farm Progress Show interview for this year. I walked in to Jeremy Wilson, Crop IMS, in the new Ag Leader Technology building. Like me, he says the new building is a real showcase of all that Ag Leader has to offer. After wandering around Farm Progress Show he also agrees that there’s a lot more precision on … Read More
Growing With Ag Leader Technology
During this year’s Farm Progress Show I visited with Wisconsin grain farmer Charlie Hammer (left). He likes to keep up with new technology and keeps in touch with Ag Leader Technology since he’s using their equipment. He’s been running precision farming applications for a while starting with yield monitors, moving into guided steering and now he’s adding Integra and ParaDyme … Read More
Using SMS Basic Software for Harvest Mapping and Analysis
Whether it is data from planting, fertilizing, spraying, harvest or guidance, SMS software from Ag Leader houses and organizes data for easy access. And this ability to gather and analyze data could come in handy this harvest season. Jessica Ahrens, Ag Leader Software Support Specialist, tells growers what kind of data SMS will gather. [wpaudio url=”http://precision.agwired.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2011/09/JessicaSMS1.mp3″ text=”Listen to Ahrens explain”] … Read More
Preparing for Harvest 2011
It’s that time of year again and growers are beginning to pull combines out of the shed to begin preparing for harvest. Making sure your yield monitor is ready should be a step in this important process as yield data is essential to precision agriculture; the data can be used to create variable rate prescriptions, identify spots where tiling may … Read More
FS Green Plan Offers Solutions to Maximize Every Acre
When farmers want to increase their yields – and what farmer doesn’t? – they really need a systems based approach to maximizing what they get from every acre, and that is what FS Green Plan Solutions is all about. At the 2011 Farm Progress Show, I talked with Neil Eimer, Evergreen FS Crop Specialist in the central Illinois counties of … Read More