While “Big Data” has opened previously unheard of doors for the world of precision agriculture, the issues of privacy and ownership have yet to be resolved. For the first time Farmobile, a company specializing in farm data, has created a data agreement that is simple and transparent. The pro-farmer legal agreement grants full data ownership to the farmer and is … Read More
United Suppliers Partners with SageInsights
SageInsights is a joint project between John Deere and DN2K to expand the cloud-based software program into a usable workflow platform. The result is MyAgCentral, which turns data into visible information which can be accessed from laptops, smartphones and tables and shared in real time. Now United Suppliers joins this business opportunity with ATLAS, an enhancement to the MyAgCentral … Read More
Agribotix Honored for Superior Drone & Data Platform
Agribotix LLC has been awarded the 2016 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Enabling Technology Leadership. The award is presented to Agribotix for their Enduro and Hornet agricultural drones and the FarmLens data analytics platform. These tools have been analyzed as an ideal precision agriculture solution set for increasing crop yield, improving quality and increasing efficiency and profitability. Agribotix … Read More
AgGateway Makes Systems Communication a Reality
For growers using precision technology communication between different systems has been a major struggle. Today the Agricultural Data Applications Programming Toolkit, or ADAPT, will allow users to move between software and hardware applications without the major pain points of the past. AgGateway’s ADAPT Committee is working to with software companies to coordinate plug-ins necessary for ADAPT’s use. “This is the year … Read More
Bayer Bolsters Digital Farming
Bayer will be operating a new company called Bayer Digital Farming GmbH proPlant, which will function as their plant health diagnosis and infection level warning service provider. The new division came about as Bayer acquired the German based Gesellschaft für Agrar- und Umweltinformatik mbH, a spin-off by employees of the Institute for Geoifomatics at Munster University. The acquisition continues … Read More
FarmLink Splits Company to Position Growth
FarmLink has made the decision to split the company into two businesses. FarmLink will focus on advanced data analytics and MachineryLink Solutions will steer towards equipment sharing solutions. “For local farmers, global agribusiness and others across the industry, new technology brings much needed insights and solutions to pull early adopters to the head of the pack. As we talked with … Read More
Case IH New Advanced Farming Systems Products
Case IH’s Advanced Farming Systems (AFS) has added three products to it’s line-up: AFS RTK+, ElectriSteer and AFS Connect™ Data Sharing. Growers got an up close look into the technologies at the 2016 National Farm Machinery Show and benefits of precision agriculture. Radio delivered based solutions for growers are no more. Cellular guidance correction signals alleviate line-of-sight issues offering consistent … Read More
Agrible Morning Farm Report wins AE50 Award
The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) has named Morning Farm Report by Agrible a winner of a 2016 AE50 Award for Outstanding Innovations in Product or Systems Technology. “Many of us at Agrible are ASABE members, 20 years for me, and it’s a great honor for Morning Farm Report to be recognized by the society I’ve respected … Read More
AgReliant Genetics Collaborates with AgSoil Analytics
AgReliant Genetics and AgSoil Analytics have paired up to provide soil information through an integration of soil-mapping technology. The AgSoil Analytics team is a Purdue-affiliated company headed up by agronomy professor Phillip Owens. Their company will be using AgReliant’s Advantage Acre precision farming platform to conduct their research. This partnership will allow the integration of a soil-mapping technology that provides … Read More
Open Climate Data Strengthens Food Supply
The USDA-Microsoft Innovation Challenge was crated in response to the President’s Climate Data Initiative in the hopes of utilizing climate data to protect America’s food supply. The USDA offered contestants more than 100 years of crop and climate data through the Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform. Now Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Microsoft officials have announced the winners . Winners were … Read More