The Climate Corporation‘s new FieldView Drive will allow farmers to easily transfer data from their tractor or combine to their Climate FieldView account on an iPad. FieldView Drive uses a controller area network (CAN) diagnostic port and Bluetooth tech to map the field using key data like hybrid, planting population, and yield. When combined with FieldView Plus, the data can … Read More
Agrible Appointed to Data Privacy and Security Board
Agrible, Inc. of Illinois has been appointed to the interim board of a coalition formed to address issues such as big data privacy, security, and transparency for growers. According to an American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) poll, over 80% of growers indicated that they do not know what happens to their data after they upload it to an Ag Technology … Read More
FarmLink Says Potential $8.1B Revenue Left In 2015
With challenging conditions and tough markets this year, farmers have to be aware of which tools can help best utilize their farmland. FarmLink, for the second year in a row, analyzed their benchmarking data from across the US and found that approximately one third of farm operations could have earned additional revenue in 2015. New data tools, such as Discovery … Read More
Farmer2Farmer Hosts Moneyball Conference
Last month the Farmers Business Network (FBN) hosted the first ever Farmer2Farmer Conference. More than 650 industry professionals attended to hear how experts in professional sports and the military have challenged their fields with an outside-the-box focus on performance metrics– the “Moneyball” philosophy. This innovative group of farmers, data analysts, and industry representatives hope to do the same with agriculture. … Read More
Trimble And DuPont Enable Data Transferring
DuPont Pioneer and Trimble announced a collaborative effort that will give growers increased access to field data to help improve their productivity and profitability acre-by-acre. The collaboration allows for the seamless flow of information between the Trimble Connected Farm™ solution, a Web-based farm management solution that includes wireless data transfer, and Encirca℠ services, which are tailored decision services offered by … Read More
Farmers Edge Expands Precision Solutions
Earlier this year the global precision agriculture and data management solutions company, Farmers Edge broke into the U.S. market. Now they’re expanding their presence in the major growing areas of Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, Missouri and Kansas. Whereas blue-chip agriculture giants and big data startups rely heavily on existing public data and have stagnated in major … Read More
Agrible Launches a Seed Selector Tool for Growers
The creator of the Morning Farm Report suite of analytics tools have added another option for growers. Agrible, Inc. has just launched the Find My Seed free seed selection tool. Find My Seed offers growers the most current data from more than 200,000 trial plots, covering over 18,000 corn and soybean varieties. This new tool is easy to use and … Read More
Farmobile Raises $5.5M To Lead Farm Data Revolution
After the completion of a Series A round of equity investment led by Anterra Capital, Farmobile announced financing of $5.5M to strengthen their portfolio. Farmobile, a fast-growing technology company specializing in farm data, announced the investment would be used to develop and distribute new modules on top of the company’s signature real-time “dirt to database” platform. Farmobile’s hardware radically simplifies … Read More
Precision Ag Workshop Hosted by AL Extension
A Precision Agriculture Workshop will be held in Auburn, Alabama on January 28, 2016. The workshop is provided by Auburn University and the Alabama Extension. There will be presentations and demonstrations of cutting edge precision technology covering planting, spraying, variable rate nitrogen, variable rate irrigation and data management. Alabama Extension Precision Ag and Grain Crops Specialist Brenda Ortiz said there … Read More
FarmLogs Unveils Unbiased Recommendations
At their first annual FarmLogs User Conference in Orlando Florida, Farm Logs announced the release of an entirely new product for 2016. Nitrogen Monitoring and Variable Rate Prescriptions for seeding and nitrogen are available now for their customers to use in the upcoming season. “We’ve taken a huge step forward in our mission to create a better future for farming. We’re … Read More