It’s CropTrak now (not iCropTrak) as the company has changed the name slightly. You will see it on full display at the upcoming InfoAg Conference in St. Louis, MO. I’ll be there and will stop to visit CropTrak and I hope you will too. I visited with Jonathan Sherrill, Central Business Lead at CropTrak / Cogent3D, Inc., to find out … Read More
ICPA Conference Registration is Now Open
The 13th International Conference on Precision Agriculture (ICPA) is coming to St. Louis, Missouri from July 31 to August 3, 2016. The event will take place at Union Station and includes presentations from scientists around the world. A program outline is now available and registration has begun. The conference will kick-off with a reception in the hotel, followed Monday evening … Read More
Gearing Up for InfoAg Conference 2016
It might be their off-season, but the people behind the InfoAg Conference aren’t taking it easy. Harold Reetz, the original founder of the event, recently traveled to the 2016 Commodity Classic. His goal in attending the event was to share more about the opportunities available at InfoAg with the great group of farmers who come to Commodity Classic. Since 1995, … Read More
Real-Time Data Becoming Crucial for On-Farm Success
In a GEOSYS sponsored a survey of the 2015 InfoAg attendees, 47% reported they plan to use remote imagery services to increase their investments. Farmers said real-time data and higher yields were their primary reasons for adopting the technology. The data was collected form precision ag specialists, marketing and sales associates, senior managers, IT professionals and agronomists. The greatest challenge … 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
History and Future for GEOSYS at InfoAg
Recently Damien Lepoutre, Founder and CEO of GEOSYS, spoke with Jamie at the InfoAg Conference in St. Louis, Mo. Lepoutre started the company nearly three decades ago when precision ag looked quite a bit different. “When I started this company 27 years ago the concepts you see here, they were already there, but we didn’t have all the technology so we … Read More
Soyl Introduces App at InfoAg
New to InfoAg this year were Tom Parker and Grahm Barr with Soyl, a market leading service provider in the UK. Even though Soyl is more than busy providing soil sampling to 2.5 million acres in Britain, they’ve flown across the pond to share a new app they’ve developed called iSoyl. The app allows variable rate data to be uploaded … Read More
PrecisionAg Institute at InfoAg Conference
During the 20th InfoAg Conference I talked with Paul Schrimpf, PrecisionAg Institute, about how much the technology has changed during the time span of the show. PrecisionAg is a diversified, independent media enterprise serving the global community using precision agriculture techniques – adjusting production inputs and practices based on in-field variability, typically through use of geographic positioning systems (GPS) and … Read More
New Holland Looks to Take Manual Out of Data Transfer
For years, there’s been no problem with generating data with farm equipment. The issue came with the extra chore too many farmers had to perform at the end of the day and manually transfer information from a USB stick to their computer back in their home office. During the recent InfoAg Conference, Chuck caught up with Chris Carrier from New … Read More
John Deere Ops Center Like Grand Central for Data
Just like Grand Central Station serves as a hub for trains and people coming in and out of a city, the John Deere Operations Center serves as a hub for data coming in and out of a producer’s operation. “That’s where all of our data is feeding in, being processed in a way to be consumed and help [farmers] with … Read More