Technology - General
After a volatile 2025 pushed growers toward precision agriculture out of necessity, row crop farmers are entering the year ahead with more flexible, data-driven field strategies that favor targeted applications over traditional blanket approaches.
As crops go into bins, growers will be looking to maintain quality until their marketing opportunities improve. Some ongoing management practices are vital to the process.
Farmers are likely to apply more NH3 this fall, given its availability and price point relative to other nitrogen sources. Chase Dewitz shares a recent experience that occurred on his farm as a reminder that the product deserves to be handled with careful attention and respect.
After testing thousands of varieties and a decade of trials, a new variety of winter wheat is on its way. Next season, in 2026, South Dakota producers will be able to plant SD Vivan – made with strong resistance to the state’s agronomic challenges.
AgZen’s first product, RealCoverage, can be bolted onto any sprayer and is the world’s only sensor and AI-based system that measures and optimizes the number of drops of crop protection products applied to crops.
A cattle-raising family is going all-in on drone application technology, and a side hustle spinoff business is in the works after finding success spraying their own pasture land.
The new technology is being evaluated in Farm Journal Test Plots this fall and catching a lot of farmer interest in the process. Check out our brief video showing the system at work in a central Illinois cornfield.
If your farm machinery auto steer or GPS guidance system is tied into a local RTK or Real Time Network corrections signal, there are critical updates to make before spring planting. Find out what experts say you should do soon.
Ryan Lankford is using all the tools at his disposal to escape a generational cycle that has led others to fail
Serial entrepreneurs Jack Oslan and Nate Storey have a thesis that artificial intelligence can provide real-time soil nutrient analysis for row crop agriculture.