As farmers across the Corn Belt continue to battle above- and below-ground insect pests year after year, a comprehensive integrated pest management approach is key to maximizing yield potential, especially in corn-on-corn environments. The Insect Forecast Tool can help farmers understand their current pest pressure and make more accurate predictions for the following year. Farmers can log on to www.insectforecast.com … Read More
Announcing the Winner of iPad mini Giveaway
The winner of our iPad mini Giveaway Contest has been picked via random selection and he is Nick Leibold of New Hampton, IA. Nick farms about 600 acres of corn and 400 acres of soybeans. Cindy visited with Nick by phone to let him know about his winning and to learn a little bit about how Precision.AgWired.com for his family … Read More
Precision.AgWired.com Podcast: The need for high speed
I live in suburbia. High speed internet is an after thought for me and sadly it is something I take for granted. For those that live in rural America – it is a struggle. In some places – dial-up is still the only option available. As the technologies that we use on the farm continue to advance – dial-up doesn’t … Read More
Precision Ag in the Cloud
You are hearing a lot about working in the cloud these days. Why not the agribusiness industry, especially in the precision arena? Onsite, fueled by AgIntegrated, has an answer to the question. Onsite provides the connections you need to handle 21st century farming. As a consumer of an increasing amount of agricultural information and technologies, you experience the headaches involved … Read More
LightSquared Proposal Seems Doomed
Things are looking bleak for the proposed LightSquared LTE network according to a story in PC World. A key federal agency involved in testing the proposed LightSquared LTE network has concluded that there is no practical way to solve interference between that network and GPS, possibly dealing a crippling blow to the startup carrier’s hopes for a terrestrial mobile network. … Read More
Insect Migration Forecast Adds New Features
Knowing where the bugs are going can help farmers beat them. The Insect Forecast website is ready to start pest tracking in May with new enhancements for the 2011 growing season to increase farmer awareness about above-ground pests that can threaten their fields. The new features include the tracking of western bean cutworm pressure in the Midwest, in addition to … Read More
Why Broadband & Precision Ag Make Such a Great Couple
A recent post from the Iowa Power Farming Show that featured Ag Leader’s new SMS Mobile Technologies spurred a guest post request from Broadband for America. They asked if I could write a blog about how broadband technology has really changed the way agriculture does business. And for the better I might add. With their permission, I am reprinting the … Read More
Remote Machinery Diagnostics Capabilities
More equipment companies involved in precision agriculture are deploying remote diagnostic capabilities as part of a broader telematic system offering. Farm Industry News offers a fascinating look at some of the current technology. After being on the agriculture market for almost a decade, telematic systems that once were thought to be useful mostly to large farming and custom application operations … Read More
New Precision Spraying Website
The maker of Apache sprayers, Equipment Technologies, just announced the addition of SpraySmarter.com to its business. SpraySmarter.com is an online culmination of years of sprayer manufacturing and customer support expertise. The site offers brands like Hypro, TeeJet, Banjo and Raven precision-ag products combined with an intuitive shopping experience and an array of application-focused tools intended to supplement the visitor’s spraying … Read More
New Wi-Fi Network Hub For The Farmstead
Claimed to work better than any current home networking solution, the roof-mounted Ayrstone AyrMesh wireless network can make your whole farmstead wireless, as reported this week in Ag Weekly Online. Bill Moffitt wants to offer farmers and ranchers the ability to open up a laptop computer anywhere on their homestead and have Internet connectivity. Recently Moffitt, the founder and president … Read More