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
aWhere to Provide Data to SageInsight’s MyAgCentral
“Farmers don’t need more data, they need smart data delivered to them in an understandable format[…]” says John Corbett, CEO of aWhere. And smart data is exactly what aWhere and DN2K are working together to accomplish. aWhere’s weather data and agronomic modeling services will now be avaliable to SageInsight‘s MyAgCentral customers. As a key contributor of meaningful agricultural big data, … Read More
Deere, DN2K Form Joint Venture
Deere & Company and DN2K are working together to form SageInsights, a joint venture to further develop DN2K’s existing cloud software. The goal is to enhance the software, called MyAgCentral, to provide consulting services to growers. and others who provide consulting services to growers. “Through this initiative, John Deere expands its products and services for precision agriculture,” said … Read More
Trimble Transforms Data with New Software
Trimble has released a new software solution– the Trimble Remote Sensing Suite. The new software promises to transform satellite data into high-quality information using satellite imagery processing and software for object-based feature extraction. The information can be used by geospatial professionals for agriculture, environmental, urban planning and a variety of other applications. “Quickly extracting relevant and accurate information from large … Read More
Digital Farming Efforts at Bayer CropScience
Bayer CropScience looks at digital farming as a tool for farmers to make better, more profitable and efficient decisions from data collected on their own farming operations. Shane Hand, director of Digital Farming for Bayer, provided insight into their look on data management when I spoke with him at the recent Farm Progress Show. “We are focusing on driving precision … Read More
MyEquipment Gives Real-Time Data Management
DTN/The Progressive Farmer is releasing MyEquipment. Powered by Farmobile PUC, a Passive Upload Connection device, MyEquipment provides real-time machinery data collection as part of the MyDTN management suite. “We are proud of this collaboration, which brings together the management tools of MyDTN with the most comprehensive and timely machine and agronomic data from Farmobile,” said Jason Tatge, CEO and founder … Read More
Farm Market iD Releases Harvest 2014 Data
Farm Market iD has announced an update of it’s farm and land database to include the Harvest year 2014. At it’s most recent, FMiD’s proprietary fact-based database includes information for more than 402 million planted production acres. The land represents over 1.9 million individuals farming more than 1.4 million farms that generate $197 billion in gross farm income in the Harvest Year 2014. … Read More
Brett Duffy Joins Decisive Farming Board
Decisive Farming™, a North American precision agronomy and data management services provider, is please to announce the addition of Brett W Duffy to their Board of Directors. Duffy comes from 20years of global ag experience, including 16 years at Cargill as investment manager. “Brett brings to our board a wealth of international business expertise, particularly during his tenure with Cargill … Read More
Osmington Inc. Added as Partner to Farmers Edge
Osmington Inc. has been added to the Farmers Edge team of investors. This is the fourth investment partner to join in the last 12 months. “We immediately connected with the team at Osmington in a shared values system and affection for agriculture, not only in Winnipeg, the home of our headquarters in Canada, but across the Globe,” says Founder and … Read More
Crop IMS Talks Data Security at InfoAg
“We have a lot a questions about data privacy,” says Tom Groves, Information Systems Engineer and Web Developer for Crop IMS. “I’d say it’s our big one.” Groves, along with Agronomy and Tech Consultant Dallas Shepherd, recently appeared at InfoAg to share what’s happening at Crop IMS. Their bread and butter is data management and record keeping and their customers’ biggest … Read More