AGCO’s Challenger brand is bringing something entirely new to the field. The Challenger 1000 Series tractors offer lower cost of ownership per acre, advanced connectivity and world-class performance. The new series is available in four models ranging from 396 to 517. Farmers can get their first look at the new offerings at the 2016 Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa … Read More
More than 100 Nobel Laureates Support GMOs
This morning three Nobel Laureates presented at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. to call on Greenpeace, the United Nations and governments around the world to support GMOs. They are the public face of more than 100 Nobel Laureates who signed a letter asking that campaigns agains products like Golden Rice be abandoned. The letter condemns practices that are … Read More
InterDrone 2016 Won’t Disappoint
InterDrone’s debut event in 2015 brought in an impressive 2,797 delegates from 48 nations and returns to Las Vegas Sept. 7-9 in a premier location: The Paris Las Vegas Hotel. The ZimmComm family of agricultural news sites is once again a media sponsor and wanted to share how this year’s event will top the debut just a year ago. Three … Read More
Arable Announces Improved Certainty with Pulsepod
Arable Labs Inc. pioneered data-driven land management, and now they’re continuing forward with ground-breaking Pulsepod. This solar powered IoT device offeres advanced sensing technology; a six band spectrometer, 4-way net radiometer and advanced acoustic rain gauge. Together, these tool provide complete, in-field monitoring, measuring 40 observation streams. Pulsepod can sense rain, hail, canopy leaf area, crop water demand, environmental stresses, microclimate, … Read More
Iteris Announces Partnership with SST Software
Iteris, Inc. recently announced that they have entered into a content partnership agreement with SST Software in order to to deliver ClearAg agronomic information to SST users and integrate real-time weather insights to help SST users improve operational performance and decision-making. “The integration of Iteris’ ClearAg Platform content into the SST system will provide our customers with the precision weather-based … Read More
Stem Cells May Be Key To Increased Yields
Biologists at New York’s Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have discovered a regulatory pathway in corn that could help explain how plants regulate the proliferation of stem cells, and could potentially be used to increase yields of corn and other staple crops by as much as 50 percent. The pathway works by channeling signals from emerging young leaves in corn to … Read More
#CUTC16 Starts Off Right
In light of a lot of negativism directed toward farming today the opening speakers for the 2016 Corn Utilization Technology Conference (CUTC) were very optimistic in their outlook. Welcoming us to the 10th CUTC was Chris Novak, CEO, National Corn Growers Association. The conference is held every other year so twenty years of corn technology has been discussed in sessions … Read More
Ag Electronics Challenges Tackled at AEF Plugfest
Despite the current downturn in many segments of the agricultural equipment industry, the Agricultural Industry Electronics Foundation (AEF) Spring Plugfest event attracted a sizable audience this year, reinforcing that interest in finding solutions to ag electronics challenges remains strong. The Spring Plugfest is hosted by the National Tractor Test Laboratory in Lincoln, Nebraska, and this year’s event attracted 83 participants … Read More
Ag Technology Plows Ahead
Market prices and a generally “down” farm economy have most farmers tucking away the checkbook, expect, it seems, when it comes to new technologies. In a recent report from Caledonia Solutions, a research and consulting firm in Minneapolis, as many as 1 out of every 4 large farmers are actually planning to increase spending on data and equipment technology. Agriculture … Read More
Southern States Cooperative Offers Precision Program
Southern States Cooperative is debuting their new precision agriculture program with options for beginner, intermediate and advanced-level farm data management. The program offers three tiered packages, Discovery, Evaluation and Analysis. The Discovery option lets growers get started with a basic package. It features a season-long program to help provide information that allows the user to make better informed decisions with … Read More