AgWeb caught up with Missouri Farmer Dennis Isgrig at a recent farm show. Check out this video to learn how he uses the free WAAS signal and has adapted technology to his older planter to keep costs lower and pay it back quicker.
New John Deere 8R Tractors Are Precision Amplified
John Deere has released the next generation of it’s 8R Tractors. These new tractors integrate the “smart-tractor” concept into the row-crop tractors, and by “smart” I mean the tractor provides growers all the latest and greatest precision ag technologies right at their fingertips. I caught up with Cody Dicken during the Farm Progress Show to take a look at the … Read More
John Deere Launches New Precision Technologies
John Deere has launched several new precision ag technologies including a new telematics system, JDLink, GreenStar 3 family of displays, the StarFire 3000 GNSS Receiver, iGrade, that helps producers better manage surface water movement, and iSteer, that improves implement guidance in a grower’s field. “The GreenStar 3 and the new GreenStar 3 2630 display is the new generation of GreenStar … Read More
Raven Introduces OmniRow, Envizio Pro II & SmartYield
During the Farm Progress Show held last week in Boone, Iowa, Raven introduced several new products including OmniRow, Envizio Pro II and SmartYield. I caught up with Ryan Molitor to learn about these new products and more. Molitor began by explaining that OmniRow is an advanced planter control system. This system enables the grower to do variable rate seeding either … Read More
Ag Leader Talks GPS Guidance & Steering
Earlier this year Ag Leader launched a new GPS guidance and steering technology called ParaDyme. While the product is still fairly new, growers are already raving about it. To learn more about its unique features and benefits, I spoke with Jeff Bentley, GPS Guidance and Steering Sales Manager for Ag Leader. ParaDyme is a fully functional, fully integrated hydraulic steering … Read More
Attend A Great Farm Show To Relax And Learn Before Harvest
As the nights begin to cool, we know harvest is just around the corner. But before your mind gets totally wrapped around the culmination event of your hard work, take a break to visit and learn at one of the best outdoor farm shows, the Farm Progress Show, Aug. 31 through Sept. 2 near the central Iowa community of Boone. … Read More
Precision Ag Technologies Save Money
Research shows a lightbar can pay for itself in three years on only 300 acres. It can be done with a GPS receiver that receives the free WAAS correction signal that functions within 12-inch accuracy. This was just one precision farming economic message presented by Matt Darr, Iowa State University ag engineer, during a field day at its Northern Research … Read More
New Video on ParaDyme from AutoFarm
AutoFarm has released a new video featuring its ParaDyme GPS Precision Farming system. The new five and one half minute video highlights ParaDyme as the world’s first totally integrated precision farming system, with the capability of being installed on any “color” or brand of farm equipment from tractors, combines, sprayers and spreaders to swathers. AutoFarm ParaDyme is the single system … Read More
Better Steering Guidance in Odd-Shaped and Contoured Fields
For farmers who deal with the planting and spraying challenges of farming on contours, terraces and hills, there’s a new guidance pattern from Ag Leader Technology that offers help. Called SmartPath, this new ‘drive and guide’ pattern is designed for fields beyond the straight and flat, and it doesn’t require the traditional set-up using beginning and end points. “If you … Read More
TeeJet Updates Matrix Guidance System
TeeJet launched its Matrix Guidance System with RealView Guidance Over Video earlier this year, and now it offers a software update, v1.04. The features being released are fully tested and bring significant improvement to the performance of this product. Updates include: Improved touch screen response Split Screen option is available in RealView Guidance mode on the Matrix 570G Improved touch … Read More