Farmers Edge USA is pleased to announce they have joined forces with Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture. The initiative is working with groups across the agricultural supply chain to define, measure and advance the sustainability of our food, fuel and fiber. “We are proud to be influencing change within agriculture by joining Field to Market,” said Farmers Edge™ … Read More
LibertyLink Real Yield Radio on Stations Near You
Do you recognize the famous radio voices of the Bayer CropScience Real Yield Game Contest? These are some award winners! Listen to one of the commercials that is running on radio stations right now. When it comes to the game here’s how you play: Visit www.realyieldgame.com and click on the promotion link. 1. Complete all fields in the registration or … Read More
Senate Considers WOTUS Legislation
The controversial Clean Water rule known as Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) was the subject of two bills in the Senate on Tuesday and hours of debate on both sides, despite one bill failing to invoke cloture. The bill that failed was sponsored by Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) and would have instructed EPA to craft a WOTUS rule that “takes … Read More
John Deere Open API Yielding Results
Two years ago John Deere announced that they were making their API’s open to third party developers. That move to being more open has led to a number of collaborations, integrations and even a joint venture. Opening up the Develop with Deere conference in Kansas City this year is Pat Pinkston, John Deere Agriculture and Turf Division, Vice President, Information … Read More
Details from Climate Corp on Deere Partnership
The Climate Corporation, a subsidiary of Monsanto Company, has signed new agreements for Deere and Company to acquire the Precision Planting LLC equipment business and to “enable exclusive near real-time data connectivity between certain John Deere farm equipment and the Climate FieldView™ platform.” The agreements represent the industry’s first and only near “real-time in-cab wireless connection to John Deere equipment … Read More
John Deere To Acquire Precision Planting and More
This morning John Deere announced that the company has acquired Precision Planting from the Climate Corporation, a subsidiary of Monsanto. Also included in the announcement is an exclusive agreement with Climate Corporation for near real-time data connectivity between certain John Deere equipment and Climate Corporation’s FieldView Platform. Making the announcement at the Develop with Deere conference in Kansas City this … Read More
Precision Ag Will Play Key Role in Ag Productivity
Cory Reed, vice president of John Deere’s Intelligent Solutions Group, participated in the recent GAP Report 2015 launch during World Food Prize as a panelist discussing some of the key findings of the study. One area emerged that was highly discussed – the need to improve Total Factor Productivity (TFP) in all countries, including the U.S. John Deere has been … Read More
The Importance of TFP
John Deere’s Kelly Winquist provided a preview of how countries are doing with Total Factor Productivity (TFP) as a means to reach the goal of feeding 9.7 billion people by 2050 as part of the 2015 Gap Report release during World Food Prize. The 6th annual Global Agricultural Productivity Report: Building Sustainable Breadbaskets focused on the U.S. and Zambia. Winquist … Read More
John Deere Brings Precision Ag to Small-Holder Farmers
John Deere is bringing agricultural training to thousands of small-holder farmers with their new pilot mobile education unit. According to Geoff Andersen, director, Global Citizenship and Strategic Planning with John Deere, who I spoke with this morning during the World Food Prize in Des Moines, Iowa, the unit was first used in Ghana and Kenya to help more than 60,000 … Read More
Farmers Need RFS Certainty to Remain Profitable
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to announce final rules for the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) this November after months of delay and push back from the agriculture and biofuels industries. As it currently stands, the volume levels set for 2015 and 2016 are lower than the law mandates. As a result, a new white paper finds that American farmers … Read More