The 2015 InfoAg conference is well underway and one of my first stops was at the Iteris booth to learn more about their leading crop health and crop decision support product suite, ClearAg™. Mike Ostaffe, Director of Product Management, was on hand to explain how ClearAg is the most accurate, location-based weather, water, soil and crop health information available worldwide. … Read More
2015 PrecisionAg Awards of Excellence
The 2015 PrecisionAg Magazine Awards of Excellence were presented today by Paul Schrimpf, Executive Editor. First up on stage was Dave Scheiderer, founder, Integrated Ag Services. He has been named the Crop Adviser/Entrepreneur Award Winner. I have captured each winner’s introduction by Paul along with their comments for you. Listen to Dave here: [wpaudio url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/zimmcomm/infoag-15-precisionag-award-1.mp3″ text=”Dave Scheiderer, Integrated Ag Services”] … Read More
2015 InfoAg Conference
It’s time for the biggest conference on precision agriculture. InfoAg is celebrating 20 years and the crowd will be another record. In fact, we’re at start time for the opening session and still have a long line getting registered! I’ll be here tag teaming with Jamie Johansen this week. We’ll have lots of interviews and photos for you. The Golden … Read More
AgGateway Enters Phase 3 of SPADE Project
The third phase of AgGateway‘s Standardized Precision Ag Data Exchange (SPADE) Project is currently underway. The project will continue work related to automated data exchange in precision farming– specifically crop scouting, crop nutrition, wireless asset and vehicle data exchange, and automation of commodity data for rail and truck transport. 24 companies, along with experts in precision agriculture are working together … Read More
How @GROWMARK Stays Ahead of the Precision Curve
It’s kind of redundant these days to say “precision farming” since the vast majority of farmers now have adopted some type of precision technology on their operations. But GROWMARK and FS Services have always been ahead of the curve when it comes to new technology and bringing their customers what’s next. “We really started in the precision emphasis back in … Read More
iCropTrak Getting Ready for InfoAg Conference
The InfoAg Conference is only four weeks away and companies like iCropTrak are getting excited to showcase their products to a record setting crowd in St. Louis. iCropTrak has been a supporter of ours for several years now and I look forward to visiting with them in the trade show and during a session I will be moderating that includes … Read More
Are You Ready for the InfoAg Conference
There is an AgNerd’s paradise of a conference coming up in July. It’s the 2015 InfoAg Conference, the premier event in precision agriculture. I will be there courtesy of John Deere and GROWMARK. We learn more about this year’s conference and program from Quentin Rund, Conference Secretary, PAQ Interactive. InfoAg 2014 was a record-setting success. Over 1400 participants shared in … Read More
InfoAg Conference Back in St. Louis
The 2015 InfoAg Conference, now an annual event, is back at the Union Station in St. Louis July 28-30. The premier precision agriculture event for producers, consultants, and the crop production industry, InfoAg this year feature five tracks of concurrent sessions with two tracks repeating to allow attendees to hear more of the presentations while offering a wide variety of … Read More
AgGateway Digging into Data Sharing with SPADE
Many booths at the recent InfoAg Conference sported this little sign: AgGateway – SPADE Participant. We caught up with AgGateway Standards Director Jim Wilson at the John Deere booth to learn more about the SPADE project. “SPADE stands for Standardized Precision Ag Data Exchange,” Wilson explained. As a non-profit industry consortium, AgGateway is facilitating the project which will ultimately benefit … Read More
Data Management and MyJohnDeere
Big Data is the buzz word in the precision farming world these days and managing that data is all important. Laura Donaldson with John Deere‘s Intelligent Solutions Group says they have a set of data principles to guide them in the data management space. “Those data principles are value, transparency and control, and those three words tie directly in to … Read More