AgReliant Genetics and AgSoil Analytics have paired up to provide soil information through an integration of soil-mapping technology. The AgSoil Analytics team is a Purdue-affiliated company headed up by agronomy professor Phillip Owens. Their company will be using AgReliant’s Advantage Acre precision farming platform to conduct their research. This partnership will allow the integration of a soil-mapping technology that provides … Read More
Potato Board Offers Innovative Ideas
Blair Richardson, CEO for the United States Potato Board took time to share with Chuck Zimmerman at the recent Potato Expo about some big news announced at the event– the unveiling of the Spud Nation food truck. This latest project by the Potato Board is a self-funding marketing program that is unlike anything attempted by a commodity board before. Food trucks are … Read More
AgVoice Selected for Ag Tech Accelerator Program
AgVoice has been selected to participate in a nine-month program created by The Yield Lab, to support up and coming agriculture technology companies. AgVoice is a voice interaction service, created by TekWear LLC, which provides hands-free workflow management services which allows growers to capture insights when they’re on the go. The platform gives ag professionals the ability to record and … Read More
AccuGrain Named #AFBF16 Rural Entrepreneur of the Year
AccuGrain of Rose Hill, Iowa was named the Farm Bureau Entrepreneur of the Year, announced at AFBF’s 97th Annual Convention and IDEAg Trade Show on Monday. The AccuGrain team, led by founder Ryan Augustine, received a total of $30,000 in prize money to implement his business idea, which is X-ray technology to inventory flowing grain in real time. “This is … Read More
Strider Expands Into US With Decision Making Platform
Strider, a well-respected, agriculture-focused tech start-up in Brazil, has recently expanded in the US market. Mainly in Texas as of now, Strider is bringing it’s mission of cutting input costs to the American farmer by helping farmers monitor pests, diseases, and weeds. This platform creates value by taking the information collected by scouts on the field to be evaluated by … Read More
Farmers Edge Expands Precision Solutions
Earlier this year the global precision agriculture and data management solutions company, Farmers Edge broke into the U.S. market. Now they’re expanding their presence in the major growing areas of Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, Missouri and Kansas. Whereas blue-chip agriculture giants and big data startups rely heavily on existing public data and have stagnated in major … Read More
Albaugh Opens New Seed Treatment Tech Center
Memphis, Tennessee is the home of the new Albaugh, LLC seed treatment technology center. The center aims to improve the discovery and development of biological as well as traditional seed treatment technology. The new seed treatment technology center will expand Albaugh’s capabilities to evaluate and develop potential seed treatment product concepts and deliver innovative offers to growers. The new facility … Read More
FarmEngine Platform Aims To Streamline On-Farm Decisions
iCropTrak, makers of mobile farm management and agriculture decision tools, are stepping up to the plate even further with FarmEngine. FarmEngine aims to fill a gap in data management within farm operations by streamlining the decision-making process for growers and their advisors (think co-ops, consultants, and retailers). Using Rules, which are set based on if/then statements, growers can create reminders, … Read More
FarmLink Continues to Put Farmers First With TrueHarvest
Kevin Heikes, with FarmLink, spoke with Precision.AgWired while at TradeTalk to give us an update on TrueHarvest and what’s next for FarmLink. TrueHarvest is the first and only yield benchmarking service that uses objective, accurate data to show your farm’s full range of yield potential and actual yield performance, down to a 150 sq. ft. area. As TrueHarvest was launched, … Read More
Raven Industries Expands Agreement With CNH Industrial
The use of Raven products and technologies has been expanded further through the CNH Industries dealer network with a new, strengthened agreement between the two companies. CNH Industries is the parent company of two well-known agriculture equipment companies, New Holland and Case IH. Paul Welbig, Raven Industries, spoke with Chuck Zimmerman to share more about the new agreement. Raven has … Read More