Technology
Spray drones are growing more ubiquitous and more scalable across agriculture. One company has unlocked the ability to deploy three at once and it’s a Smart Farming game changer.
As farmers embrace Smart Farming and digital agriculture solutions in greater numbers, machine connectivity is the uniting force that enables all of the potential to pay off in the end.
“We are really in a second phase of ag tech,” says Ryan Raguse, co-founder of Bushel. “We aren’t in an overly mature state—we’re still somewhere in the middle ground.”
As we near the finish line (but not the end of our journey) we revist five of your favorite Smart Farming Week stories.
Take a reasoned, purposeful, and proactive approach to adding new technology.
There has been a recent wave of connectivity and guidance products released for farm machinery. Here are a handful of considerations to keep in mind before buying into a system for your fleet.
Yield Optimizer is a digital tool that uses independent seed trial data to help farmers make seed selections with guaranteed yield performance. CEO Billy Rose tells how it gives farmers peace of mind.
When deciding what technology serves your goals, and to get the most bang for your buck, determine if you need to grow business revenue, increase productivity, reduce costs and/or stabilize daily operation.
Minor space weather events have temporarily knocked out corrections signals over Canada and The Dakotas in the past. Would your farm be ready for a more severe outage?
The 2024 AgLaunch startups bravely pitched straight to the farmer masses at the event. While truly an impressive class, only one would be chosen for the coveted top honor.
Being in control of your data means having full access. Do you receive a digital file of all field activity by a third party? Now’s the time to have a conversion with your ag retailer about data delivery back to you.
“It’s in these challenging markets farmers need to think about driving more efficiency using technology,” says Darryl Matthews, a recently retired tech executive. Certain technologies can provide a short-term ROI.
“Smart farming means making your life more efficient, so you don’t have to focus on the mundane but instead on making the best product possible,” says Nebraska farmer Lukas Fricke. “We only have so many hours in a day.”
From 2020 with only a few farmers participating to covering millions of acres in 2023, Taranis says it wants to help retailers and farmers understand every decision with analytics via its AcreForward technologies.
Steve Cubbage provides insights on the five areas expected to have the biggest impact on agriculture this year.
Steve May is a big believer in data and what it can do to help improve efficiency and productivity in a farm operation. May uses AFS Connect to make more informed decisions.
Douglass Steiger celebrates his 90th birthday as two new green Steigers roll off the line.
Four-dollar corn dominated discussions, but farmers remain open to new innovations and machinery as spring planting and the promise of a new production season beckons.
The startups will be featured in a pitch event at Farm Journal’s Top Producer Summit Feb. 5-7 in Kansas City
Nitricity is on a quest to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions via its innovative natural liquid fertilizer manufacturing process. The technology represents a major disruption to the global fertilizer market.
A farm kid from Kansas is bringing a new robotic weeding concept to market and he’s got big dreams for the future of crop protection.
ISO outlines the transformative potential of smart farming in addressing the complex challenges that our world faces today.
Gripp co-founder Tracey Wiedmeyer discusses the startup’s equipment tracking and management app and how it can help farmers and farm workers manage mixed fleets.
It might surprise you, but it’s not an “I” state. According to USDA data, the top five states using precision ag technologies account for half of the 2022 cash receipts for corn (52.6%) and soybeans (45.7%).
Farm Journal’s machinery and technology editor was on the ground in Louisville last week. Here’s a handful of the trends we saw down in Bourbon Country.
To date, tens of thousands of acres have been planted with SIMPAS-Applied Solutions (SaS) through the SIMPAS application system.
The electric economy is ready to roll into town this decade as battery technology improves, renewable power generation expands and automakers buy in to a future powered by something other than gasoline and diesel.
As grain bins grow larger and more farmers store on-farm, one of agriculture’s most useful tech applications is making headwinds.
As previously reported, FBN’s board had launched a search for the next CEO for the company.
The announcement means more streamlined use and experience for farmers, which can lead to more data-driven decision making for farmers and ag retailers.