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Precision Management

Highest Rated Precision Ag Products According to Farmers

In 2019, farmers across the United States submitted more than 3,000 reviews of precision farming products on Precision Ag Reviews. The reviews were collected online and in person at farm shows across the country. Precision Ag Reviews allows farmers to rate their experience with precision farming products and is an independent resource for farmers to reference before investing in precision equipment and technology. For 2019, the top five products with the highest overall rating, based on a five-star rating system that includes cost, ease of use, value and support included: Ag Leader, InCommand Display Climate, FieldView Drive Precision Planting, [...]

By |March 14, 2020|

Five Easy Ways to Use Digital Ag to Improve Production on Your Farm

There are many digital ag platforms available to today’s farmers. These powerful tools allow growers to easily summarize and analyze their results from past growing seasons. However, if you are only using your digital platform to look at yield data, you are missing out on an opportunity to improve your operation in numerous ways. Here are five ways you can improve your return on investment with digital agriculture. Optimize your inputs One way some digital ag tools create value is by allowing growers to create variable planting rate prescriptions. These prescriptions can be automatically generated and use prior years’ [...]

By |January 29, 2020|

What Drives Pod Count?

Soybeans yield are increasing over half a bushel per year now. Some of that increase is from genetic gain and the rest is from better management. Soybeans have the uncanny ability to produce hundreds of pods per plant, but most never make it past flower or early pod stage. If you want to increase your soybean yields, track what is happening to pod counts during the season and see if you can do something about it. As soybean flowering wanes and pod fill commences fully over the next 30 days it will be a good time to check pod [...]

By |July 22, 2019|

The Power of Data – Farm Progress Tech Forum

I recently attended the Farm Progress Tech Forum 2018, in Iowa City, Iowa. This event was designed to bring producers, academics and the industry to one location to share each other’s experiences. I think of this as a journey, because Digital Agriculture itself is a journey, not a defined destination. This journey will be different for everyone and everyone is at a different point in their journey. One of the speakers referenced building a Digital Ag Business plan and following the plan. I felt this was a good way to bring focus and direction. Once a Digital Ag Business [...]

By |December 11, 2018|

Attend Farm Progress Tech Forum

This article was originally published September 25, 2018, in Corn & Soybean Digest. Click to read the original article online.   Midwest farmers and row-crop advisors can learn valuable take-home precision solutions to increase return on investment on every acre at the Farm Progress Tech Forum, November 27 – 28, 2018, in Coralville, Iowa. This 1.5-day forum is designed to update your specific precision farm skill set with the latest, most critical techniques and strategies. Attendees will learn from industry techs, recognized university specialists, a variety of agronomists, national ag tech investment leaders and top-performing farmers/advisors. Our goal with this [...]

By |October 6, 2018|

There is an app for that…

Over the course of the 2018 growing season, I was challenged to review a few different soybean-scouting apps that are available on both iOS and Android platforms. And, after sampling several options that are currently available, I found some were informative but rather difficult to maneuver, or just too plain clumsy and complicated to make them of use in my opinion. However, I did find one app that suited my taste and impressed me in several respects. The Soybean Field Scout for Android and iOS – 2017 edition, created by the Purdue Crop Diagnostic Training and Research & Purdue [...]

By |August 22, 2018|

PODCAST: Flying High with Aerial Imagery

Kris Ehler, sales agronomist with Ehler Brothers Co. in Thomoasboro, IL and 2018 CCA Soy Envoy, has recently had the opportunity to check out some AKER and IntelinAir aerial imagery products and is excited to share his feedback and experience with our listeners. Listen to the podcast here:

By |August 15, 2018|

Data-Driven Farming can Help Transform the Agriculture Supply Chain

Originally published in the Illinois Field & Bean magazine How can we meet the world’s food needs while respecting the environment? With the population set to grow to more than nine billion by 2050, answering the question is becoming more urgent. Arable land is decreasing by 100,000 hectares per year, and global agricultural production needs to double in the next 30 years to cope with demand. Add to this the impact of climate change and mass urbanization and it is clear the agricultural sector faces a monumental challenge. Technology and data can open new opportunities and help solve problems [...]

By |July 15, 2018|

WEBINAR: The Bigger Picture – Analyzing Aerial Imagery

Greg Rose, co-founder and vice president of product at IntelinAir, and Ivan Dozier, M.S., senior agronomist, IntelinAir, explore the past, present and future of aerial imagery for agriculture. They discuss the types of imagery available, pros and cons of the various collection methods and why automated analysis is a key component of the usability of aerial imagery. MEASURE Remote sensing provides a new way to measure crop performance Multispectral lenses offer different perspectives Ability to collect imagery at scale ANALYZE Computer vision & machine learning Combining imagery with data-driven analysis Get to the decision quicker ACT Make in-season decisions [...]

By |April 26, 2018|

Agronomy: New Technologies for Soybean Producers

The 2016 InfoAg Conference, held in St. Louis in early August, brought together over 1700 participants from 20 different countries to learn about and discuss new ideas and technology for crop production. When we started these conferences 21 years ago, we didn’t anticipate where precision farming and information management would lead. What we dreamed about in 1995 was not even close to what we have developed and implemented since then. Presentations by 110 speakers and about 150 exhibits provided insight into how these technologies are impacting crop production around the world. Variable rate application of all inputs helps improve [...]

By |September 2, 2016|
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