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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.

The integrations streamline importing of data from the AFS Connect platform of Case IH and the MyPLM Connect platform of New Holland into the Libra Cart app through the Agrimatics Cloud Service.

Three precision ag features lead the updates being made to John Deere’s 7, 8 and 9 Series Tractors for the new model year

AMVAC first developed the SIMPAS application system as an extension of their SmartBox technology, and now that trajectory continues with ULTIMUS. 

The latest Fendt Xaver is outfitted with Precision Planting components and plants seeds 24 hours a day, has sub-inch precision, and uses features a lightweight electric design producing zero emissions.

Driverless solutions such as OMNiPOWER provide a solution to:  Labor constraints.  Short harvest windows.  Increased yields due to reallocation of resources. 

Yield monitors on combines. Module-building cotton pickers. Automatic row shut off on planters. Now for sprayers, will selective smart spraying systems be the next must-have productivity enablers? 

Introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show with nearly 5,000 watching the live stream introduction, John Deere introduces its full autonomy solution for tractors, which will be available to farmers later in 2022.

In social media posts, John Deere is giving a peek behind the curtain for what’s coming. 

As Mark Burns, Case IH application equipment marketing manager, explains the 50 Series was selected to unveil Case IH’s new look with an edgy and bold design—led by the aggressively styled hood.

With versatility to be outfitted with an air boom, dry spinner-spreader and liquid systems, John Deere introduces the 800R Floater for model year 2022, which replaces the previous F4365 high-capacity nutrient applicator

The startup focuses in building retrofit systems to use its patented artificial intelligence for fully autonomous tractors. The company says its technology deploys 360° situational awareness.

The Smart Carbon program is just one example of how data will unlock new opportunities for farmers.

"You can’t afford to go cheap,” says Brian Sorbe, VP and GM Americas for Topcon. “The data derived from these systems is becoming more critical and more valuable. The data has got to be geo spatially accurate.”

If it's not already, it will be go-time for farmers across the country in just a matter of days farmers gear up for another pass at a successful crop.

Technology has transformed the traditional aspects of the parts and service business.

Research done by Solinftec showed that U.S. ag retailers’ machines were idle 30% of the time and traveling 35% of the time. That left only 35% of the time for the machine to be operating—and generating revenue.

Ag Leader has introduced CartACE, which connects the grain cart to the combine by synching the combine’s auto-guidance line with the grain cart tractor’s auto-steer.

AGCO introduces the new Fendt Ideal combine.

Covering all facets of agriculture at a shark tank forum, 15 vanguard companies offered a glimpse of the best and brightest new tech headed to farmland.

If your farmer-customers regard soybeans as the crop they just need to plant, spray and harvest, then tell them to think again. With that attitude, they will miss out on untapped yield potential, according to Farm Journ