SageInsights, a new joint venture between John Deere and DN2K, combines the capabilities of MyJohnDeere.com and the DN2K MyAgCentral platform. MyAgCentral has been in production for a couple of years and enables farmers to connect directly to agricultural retailers to share insights & data. Susan Lambert, with DN2K, says the approach with MyAgCentral is to give ag retailers the advantage … Read More
NINJA Row Cleaner Added to Planter Pro Lineup
The new NINJA Row Cleaner has been added to Ag Focus’ Planter Pro row cleaner line to handle the toughest residue and further reduce any row unit bounce. “We developed the NINJA by listening to our customers – their experiences and suggestions,” says Bruce Freed, AgFocus product manager. “We combined our patented trailing arm with pneumatic adjustment with sharpened, intersecting … Read More
Dealer Perspective on John Deere Integrations
While at the Develop With Deere conference, Ryan Hutchison, Integrative Solutions Manager of South Country Equipment in Saskatchewan, spoke of the passion that John Deere has for expanding and growing their hardware & data driven platform to benefit growers. Hutchison said attending Develop With Deere offers a great opportunity to see what new projects are in the works, as each … Read More
John Deere Expanding Contributions to MyJohnDeere
There was a lot of excitement at the John Deere ‘Develop With Deere‘ Conference, as they working to integrate their MyJohnDeere platform with third parties. Kevin Krieg, John Deere, had a chance to speak with Chuck Zimmerman about why this is such a high priority for Deere, and what kind of value it can bring to growers using the MyJohnDeere … Read More
John Deere Open API Yielding Results
Two years ago John Deere announced that they were making their API’s open to third party developers. That move to being more open has led to a number of collaborations, integrations and even a joint venture. Opening up the Develop with Deere conference in Kansas City this year is Pat Pinkston, John Deere Agriculture and Turf Division, Vice President, Information … Read More
JohnDeere Acquires Monosem
Yesterday John Deere announced an agreement to acquire the European market leader in precision planters, Monosem. Four facilities in total will be purchased with two in France and two in the United States. John May, president, Agricultural Solutions and Chief Information Officer, said the business will maintain it’s independent nature by retaining its own brand and trademark, and will leverage … Read More
Details from Climate Corp on Deere Partnership
The Climate Corporation, a subsidiary of Monsanto Company, has signed new agreements for Deere and Company to acquire the Precision Planting LLC equipment business and to “enable exclusive near real-time data connectivity between certain John Deere farm equipment and the Climate FieldView™ platform.” The agreements represent the industry’s first and only near “real-time in-cab wireless connection to John Deere equipment … Read More
John Deere To Acquire Precision Planting and More
This morning John Deere announced that the company has acquired Precision Planting from the Climate Corporation, a subsidiary of Monsanto. Also included in the announcement is an exclusive agreement with Climate Corporation for near real-time data connectivity between certain John Deere equipment and Climate Corporation’s FieldView Platform. Making the announcement at the Develop with Deere conference in Kansas City this … Read More
Precision Ag Will Play Key Role in Ag Productivity
Cory Reed, vice president of John Deere’s Intelligent Solutions Group, participated in the recent GAP Report 2015 launch during World Food Prize as a panelist discussing some of the key findings of the study. One area emerged that was highly discussed – the need to improve Total Factor Productivity (TFP) in all countries, including the U.S. John Deere has been … Read More
The Importance of TFP
John Deere’s Kelly Winquist provided a preview of how countries are doing with Total Factor Productivity (TFP) as a means to reach the goal of feeding 9.7 billion people by 2050 as part of the 2015 Gap Report release during World Food Prize. The 6th annual Global Agricultural Productivity Report: Building Sustainable Breadbaskets focused on the U.S. and Zambia. Winquist … Read More