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Exclusive Interview: Farmcare on the Future of Precision Ag
Ahead of the next World Agri-Tech Investment Summit in November, we caught up with Andrew Lazenby, Director of Operations at Farmcare Trading to find out how the UK’s leading rural growing business views the future of precision technology on the farm. In an interview with World Agri-Tech, Andrew highlights what the government and industry can do to stimulate the adoption of advanced ...
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Women of Ag Leader: Supporting Ag Innovation & Adoption
It is no surprise that the advancement of technology in agriculture has shifted how farms operate over the last 20 years. In response to these changes, women have continued to rise up and perform in the ag tech world. Their efforts support transformational advancements that empower growers to improve their operations with every season. To celebrate the contribution women make to precision ag, ...
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Ag Leader Dealer Leads with Resiliency After Loss
Melissa Mohr left her family’s grain and hog operation at 18 years old to attend college, with no plans to return to the ag world. For almost 20 years she held multiple jobs in career service, accounting and even ran a daycare center. She lived a separate life from the farm, only providing brief seasonal labor for her family. Mohr’s plans took an unexpected turn when her brother, ...
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Hope Lewis: Thriving in Sales with Teamwork and Trust
Hope Lewis has been with Ag Leader sales team for 7 years, serving as a Territory Manager for Wyoming, Nebraska, and Western Iowa. Based in Gothenburg, Nebraska, Lewis and her husband manage their small cow-calf herd and grow corn, alfalfa, and prairie hay. Since they’ve acquired their farm, Lewis has been excited to prove the benefits precision technology can have on their ...
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International Perspectives - CS Arable Services
CS Arable Services, owned and operated by Chris Shepherd, started back in 1996 and was the result of a previous business partner retiring, allowing Chris to buy out the contracting part of that business. At that time there were 11 full-time staff plus a fitter. Fast forward to today and the business is a lot leaner, more efficient. They currently the have three full-time sprayer operators: ...
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Row Guidance Solution for InCommand?
A row feeler solution that works with the Ag Leader display in your combine? No, you’re not dreaming. It’s all possible with Headsight’s row guidance products. The system has actually been on the market since 2008 and it is a great pairing with Ag Leader products. Headsight has developed and marketed a line of row guidance sensors and controllers that interface with ISOBUS ...
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Look to Ag leader to help you comply with new Dicamba rules and regulations
Sometimes, rules and regulations come along to change how you manage your farm. The federal government’s recent action on the common herbicide ingredient dicamba is one such example, and resilient farmers may need to make some changes to comply with new regulations laid out by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in October 2017. That’s when EPA ruled that three crop ...
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How variable rate helps manage the rising cost of fertilizer
Fertilizer prices are on the rise, which leaves growers seeking to better manage their input costs. When it comes to planning for 2022, you may have a ton of questions rolling in your head such as: How can I manage costs? Is soil sampling actually worth the investment? Does variable rate fertilizer really pay? Our Premier Crop Advisors are here to help you manage all areas of your operation and ...
By Premier Crop
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(App)etite for Technology on the Farm: Meet Greg Deim, New Cab App Senior Product Manager
Today, most of our lives rely on apps. Whether we need to wake up in the morning, order a cup of coffee or navigate to avoid traffic—all while listening to our favorite podcast—apps have made everything just a click away. FieldView™ continues to lead the industry with the most compatible real-time data cab monitoring app, reshaping agriculture for present and future ...
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Are you ready for the Artificial Intelligence in Ag?
“Precision agriculture and robotic systems will allow farms to be more profitable, efficient, safe, and environmentally friendly. As precision agriculture (PA) becomes bigger and farms become more connected in the coming years, efficiency and productivity will increase consequently.” Are you ready for the Artificial Intelligence in Ag? Artificial Intelligence “AI” means ...
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Field Scouting Apps Boost Efficiency, Speed
Scouting is one of the most critical services that ag retailers and consultants can offer their grower-customers. The need for accurate information about crop conditions, including weeds, insects and other pests, has never been greater. [Related: 17 Field Scouting Apps For Precision Agriculture] There’s a lot riding on a successful scouting program. Improved yields and higher profits are ...
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Yield editor Software for removing errors from crop yield maps
Yield maps are a key component of precision agriculture, due to their usefulness in both development and evaluation of precision management strategies. The value of these yield maps can be compromised by the fact that raw yield maps contain a variety of inherent errors. Researchers have reported that 10 to 50% of the observations in a given field contain significant errors and should be removed. ...
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Return on Investment in Variable Rate Technology is About a Lot More Than Yield
Delivering value to your farm When you invest hard-earned dollars into new farm technologies, you’d better believe you want to see that value returned to your pockets. But the ways that value shows up are many, and not always so plain to see. With that, many ask: what return on investment (ROI) does variable rate technology (VRT) deliver for my farm? The truth is, it’s a loaded ...
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On combining vision-based hybrid classifiers for weeds detection in precision agriculture
One objective in precision agriculture is to minimise the volume of herbicides that are applied to the fields through the use of site-specific weed management systems. This paper outlines an automatic computer vision system for the detection and differential spraying of Avena sterilis, a noxious weed growing in cereal crops. With such purpose we have designed a multiple hybrid decision making ...
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TerraStar-X Brings RTK From the Sky Accuracy to GPS 7500
TerraStar-X Delivers Near-Instant RTK-Level Accuracy Ag Leader announces GPS 7500 receivers will now support TerraStar-X, providing centimeter-level accuracy to customers across the Midwestern United States, with additional coverage areas coming soon. TerraStar-X delivers RTK From the Sky™ performance, and convergence in under one minute with two centimeter accuracy. TerraStar-X ...
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To Meet Agtech’s New Movers and Shakers, Look Beyond Buenos Aires
Last November, Arable participated in Silicon Valley Argentina in Rosario, a forum co-organized with Fundación CEDEF, Chacra Media Group, and Silicon Valley Forum. We’ve been to a number of ag shows in the US, and have never seen anything that compares to the caliber of this event. The best part was its forward-thinking focus on ‘the next generation of ag’: It was more ...
By Arable
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Tech Support with a Heart for Agriculture
“Hi, is Jesse available?” When a member of the Customer Success Team hears this question, we know exactly who is calling. It’s Laura, a farmer in the Midwest asking to speak with her favorite FieldView™ expert. Although he’s never been to her farm and they’ve never met in person, you wouldn’t know it by the way Jesse and Laura work together. Over time, ...
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5 Tips for Easy Data Management on the Farm
The value of data isn’t about how much of it you have; it’s about how you can use it. Data is only meaningful if a farmer or trusted advisor can solve problems and inform decisions with it. Treating your data the same way you would any of the rest of your farm equipment can help you develop an effective data management strategy that can deliver real value to your farm. Data is always ...
By Growers
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Don`t Miss Out On Row-By-Row Summer Savings
Have you been waiting for the “right time” to upgrade your tech? With the summer savings going on now, there couldn’t be a better time to invest in precision farming technology! Amp up your operation’s accuracy and efficiency with these farming solutions. ...
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Precision Indoor Farming - Case Study
With an increasing demand for food, modern agriculture technologies like greenhouse farming have become the norm. Greenhouse farming needs specific temperatures and climatic conditions to ensure good growth of the crops. A variety of crops can be grown using such technology. Prkruti can help by keeping a record of all atmospheric temperatures and other factors to keep a check on the favourable ...
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