Precision Agriculture

The promise of precision agriculture to find the sweet spot between hardware and agronomics, under the banner of simplicity, hasn’t arrived.

Guesswork is a bedfellow of loss.

A web-based nitrogen fertilizer calculator for small grains has been updated and is available. Developed by Montana State University Extension, the tool works with winter wheat, spring wheat and barley produced after fallow. Available since 2009, the calculator was enhanced in 2015.

WM-Form, launched by Trimble, combines field surveys, topography analysis, design creation, cost estimation, land forming and verification.

New report looks beyond hardware tools and details a turn toward data integration.

It’s a weather package delivered right to a grower’s doorstep.

What’s around the bend for precision agriculture? A new information-packed report from the Context Network carries significant implications for growers, retailers, industry professionals, and ag companies.

Granular, a software and analytics company that provides a farm management platform for farmers, is one company leading the charge to offer producers new software tools.

In a huge expansion of their precision agriculture presence, Topcon has scooped up Digi-Star, a leading ag company related to weight sensors and control systems for equipment manufacturers.

Peter Blezard believes the most significant technological leap in agriculture for 100 years is waiting on the cusp of farmland -- nitrogen fixation. If he’s correct, agriculture may have an opportunity to reduce nitrogen fertilizer use by 50% in all major global food crops within a decade.